Wine 6.0 released

HelloWorld — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:23:01 +0000

Thanks for the explanation.

An experimental Direct3D renderer

vstinner — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:50:39 +0000

"An experimental *Vulkan* renderer for WineD3D is implemented."

Wine 6.0 released

farnz — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:01:16 +0000

In the linked article, it says "This should help a number of copy protection schemes that check that the DLL files on disk match the in-memory contents."

Basically, one route to breaking copy protection is to add extra code somewhere; historically, a good way to do this was to attach the extra code to KERNEL32.DLL or other core Windows DLLs, because the schemes in question didn't check to see if you'd done that (just that the DLL list was correct). Modern Windows has system file protections that will replace the on-disk DLLs with Microsoft originals, so if the on-disk DLL doesn't match the memory image, there are three options:

You're mid-update, and need to restart the app with the right DLLs loaded.
The OS isn't Windows, but WINE.
You've added extra code to a system DLL to break the app.

Of those, #2 is the rarest case - the other two are both signs the system isn't behaving as the copy protection expects, so they are picked up on.

Wine 6.0 released

HelloWorld — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:38:20 +0000

What's the advantage of building PE executables as opposed to ELF?

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Wine 6.0 released

An experimental Direct3D renderer

Wine 6.0 released

Wine 6.0 released