A new development version of Wine has been released

Feb 21, 2014 09:16 GMT  ·  By

On February 20, Alexandre Julliard announced a new development version of the Wine app, which comes with some very interesting features.

The number of new additions and bug fixes in the development version of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is quite large, and the current build is no different.

The most important new features in Wine 1.7.13 are: Task Scheduler support, more Direct3D 10 interfaces, more Windows Media Player stubs, various ARM code generation improvements, and better memory size reporting on Mac OS X systems.

Wine 1.7.13 also brings bug fixes for the following Windows games and tools: Battlefield 2, Warcraft III, Proteus VX, Starship Tycoon, Firefox, Shattered Origins, Dope Wars 2.2, Assassins Creed, FL Studio 10, League of Legends, The Witcher, Skyrim, Dawn Of War: Dark Crusade, Assassin's Creed 2, and MediaCoder.

Highlights of Wine 1.7.13:

• A Battlefield 2 graphics problem has been corrected; • Warcraft III videos are now playing correctly; • Proteus VX no longer fails to install; • VideoReDo Plus no longer crashes when a video file is loaded; • Starship Tycoon demo no longer crashes on exit; • Many DirectX10/11 games need dxgi.dll.CreateDXGIFactory1 (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Alan Wake, AC III, NFS: Most Wanted, Civ V, …). This problem has been corrected; • The Champions Online installer no longer crashes on startup; • The Assassins Creed media validation no longer fails; • FL Studio 10 is no longer invisible without "emulate virtual desktop"; • The new Ubisoft Game Launcher no longer fails to start games.

More details about this release can be found in the official changelog. Download Wine 1.7.13 right now from Softpedia.

Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.