More Windows apps and games are now supported

Aug 8, 2015 00:25 GMT  ·  By

Alexandre Julliard announced the release of the Wine 1.7.49 development milestone on August 7, informing us that the new version brings a total of 31 bugfixes and adds various improvements to some core components.

Prominent features of Wine 1.7.49 include the addition of more OpenMP functions, several Direct2D enhancements, support for namespaces in the IDL compiler, and support for rendering text in Steam through DirectWrite. "The Wine development release 1.7.49 is now available," says Alexandre Julliard in the release announcement of Wine 1.7.49.

Some Windows apps received improvements in Wine 1.7.49, which means that they will work as expected, without errors. Among these, we can mention Microsoft OneNote 2007, Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer, Aliwangwang, Cerbero PE Insider 1.0.2, CocosStudio 1.6, ShowShifter, Steam, the 64-bit Lexmark X2670 All-in-One printer driver, as well as some VST plugins and various other Windows tools.

The new Wine version adds improvements to numerous Windows games, among which we can mention Nocturnal Illusion, Mig Alley Flight Simulator (1999), Death to Spies Moment of Truth, Gamestudio Venice, Nvidia HDR Demo, Fritz 11, XCOM, Cities XL, FEAR 1, FEAR 2, Spellforce 2 Gold, Star Conflict, SpinTires, Among the Sleep, Trion Glyph MMO Manager, Singles 2, Warframe, and Wizard 101 UK.

More Windows games received improvements

In addition to the Windows games mentioned above, Wine 1.7.49 fixes issues for games like Witcher3 Wild Hunt, Schein, The Emptiness, Carbon Poker, Cities XL Platinum, Free Falcon 5.x, Free Falcon 6.x, and Trion Worlds "Trove." Please read the official release notes for more details on what exactly has been changed.

You can download Wine 1.7.49 right now from Softpedia or directly from the project's website, whichever suits you best, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version that includes unknown issues, which means that it is not ready for deployment on production environments.