Wine 1.3.19 Improves Direct3D 9 Support

[deanjo]

It may be just me, but I see all these announcements that wine made improvements and bugs were fixed, and everytime I try it it's all the same old shit.

Wine always did seem to fix 10 items and break 9 on each release.

[devius]

It may be just me, but I see all these announcements that wine made improvements and bugs were fixed, and everytime I try it it's all the same old shit. What actual new games/programs now run perfectly that didn't before, if any at all? That's what I'd call an improvement, not something like "We fixed more MSXML stuff for the millionth time but everything using it is still broken".

PS: I may be a bit biased in my hate towards Wine because I dislike that it decides to create a bunch of context menu entries that I don't want and decides to associate notepad.exe with text files although I don't want that, and even after removing it, the chaos that it created in my desktop gets left behind. And on top of all that the programs that I wanted to run with it don't work.

[NeoBrain]

"This release though is somewhat more interesting than some of the other mundane snapshots in the past in that it improves the D3DX9 support"

I have already told once you that D3DX9 isn't the same Direct3D9...
It's just an enhancement library which works PERFECTLY using the native dll and thus isn't a real blocker for any game anyway.

[a7v-user]

I think some are mislead by which mouse bug that is being fixed.
They have (hopefully) fixed Bug 26356 (Mouse lags and is sometimes jerky) which is a regression that happened in 1.3.15 when they rewrote some of the mouse handling code.

Now that they fixed stuff they broke themselves they can hopefully put in some more code to finally fix the mouse warp bug.

[turol]

The Mass Effect mouse hack is once again broken. They should either add a supported permanent hack or fix the damn thing.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 1.3.19 Improves Direct3D 9 Support

It's time for another bi-weekly Wine development snapshot. This release though is somewhat more interesting than some of the other mundane snapshots in the past in that it improves the D3DX9 support, has a new sound driver architecture, etc...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTM5Ng