Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11 as that newest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with some 428 patches re-based atop this latest upstream Wine code...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-9.11-Released

[timofonic]

Can anyone test the following?

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark

[Ferrum Master]

Can anyone test the following?

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark

Nope doesn't work, tried many variants.

[c117152]

Wine has countless missing or partially incorrect dll calls implementations going back decades that aren't even reported since they only apply to edge cases. DIablo 1, for instance, has issues with rendering its main menu that no one addressed fully since '97 that was still present last I gave it a try last year. But it's not just games. I've seen really basic windows applications doing nothing but mfc widgets and child windows that end up being unusable due to focus issues even in desktop emulation mode. But at least in those cases the software is so simple that a vm is a perfectly viable option.

[Adarion]

Sadly, WINE is still a mess in some aspects. It is astonishing that with a boosted WINE - Proton - quite a lot of games run fairly to very well. However, I am puzzled that I do have a couple of rather plain and stupid programs that only put some 2d text or something on screen, and this messes up. One never truly know if coders back in the days used quirky techniques, maybe, even windows bugs, but in the end, some seemingly simple programs just will not work.
Imagine having to set up some 12 - 14 GiB virtual machine for a program of 4 MiB in size or something. That's exhausting.
Still way to go.

[mirmirmir]

engineers you say? does that mean we are getting autocad installation fixed?

[Linneris]

Can anyone test the following?

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark

At release the benchmark worked fine for me under stock Wine Staging.

[braiam]

DIablo 1, for instance, has issues with rendering its main menu that no one addressed fully since '97 that was still present last I gave it a try last year.

Interesting. I didn't find any bug report that describes that issue. Did you find one?

[Kepsz]

17 years old and it still in status "NEW". XD

[timofonic]

Wine has countless missing or partially incorrect dll calls implementations going back decades that aren't even reported since they only apply to edge cases. DIablo 1, for instance, has issues with rendering its main menu that no one addressed fully since '97 that was still present last I gave it a try last year. But it's not just games. I've seen really basic windows applications doing nothing but mfc widgets and child windows that end up being unusable due to focus issues even in desktop emulation mode. But at least in those cases the software is so simple that a vm is a perfectly viable option.

Fortunately there are multiplatform reimplementations of Diablo game engine.

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

https://github.com/wkdgmr/wkdmod

https://github.com/dgcor/DGEngine

https://github.com/wheybags/freeablo

There's for Diablo II too

https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx

https://github.com/collinsmith/riiablo

https://github.com/AbyssEngine/AbyssEngine

https://github.com/AbyssEngine/OpenDiablo2

https://github.com/krisives/d2s-format