The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.11 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes below.

The main highlights are:

* Initial support for compiling legacy Direct3D bytecode to SPIR-V.
* Initial HLSL compiler support for compiling effect profiles.
* Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

The Wine development release 9.3 is now available.
What's new in this release:

Improvements to Internet Proxy support.
New HID pointer device driver.
Timezone database update.
More exception fixes on ARM platforms.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available at https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.x/wine-9.3.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.


Bugs fixed in 9.3 (total 23):


#33050  FDM (Free Download Manager) crashes with page fault when any remote FTP directory opened

#46070  Basemark Web 3.0 Desktop Launcher crashes

#46263  Final Fantasy XI crashes after accepting EULA when using Ashita; World of Warships hangs at login screen

#46839  Happy Foto Designer Font not found "Fehler (Code 1) [Font is not supported: Roboto]"

#50643  IK Product Manager: Unable to download plugins

#51458  Western Digital SSD Dashboard displays black screen

#51599  cmd.exe incorrectly parses an all-whitespace line followed by a closing parenthesis

#51813  python fatal error redirecting stdout to file

#52064  Solidworks 2008 crashes on startup

#52642  Virtual Life 2 freezes

#54794  Autodesk Fusion360: New SSO login will not open web browser

#55282  Flutter SDK can't find "aapt" program (where.exe is a stub)

#55584  Possibly incorrect handling of end_c in ARM64 process_unwind_codes

#55630  DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT_PER_MONITOR_AWARE_V2 is not handled in GetAwarenessFromDpiAwarenessContext

#55810  Finding Nemo (Steam): window borders gone missing (virtual desktop)

#55897  cpython 3.12.0 crashes due to unimplemented CopyFile2

#56065  Missing GetAnycastIpAddressTable() implementation

#56139  scrrun: Dictionary does not allow storing at key Undefined

#56222  Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (steam) needs unimplemented function GDI32.dll.D3DKMTEnumAdapters2

#56244  SplashTop RMM client for Atera crashes on unimplemented function shcore.dll.RegisterScaleChangeNotifications

#56273  [Sway] winewayland.drv: cursor does not work in Dead Island 2

#56328  LMMS 1.2.2 SF2 soundfonts no longer work in Wine 9.1

#56343  Multiple applications fail to start after de492f9a

I'm a software engineer at a startup with impossible deadlines - I've used GPT4 for months to generate huge amounts app/server code, and much like your IDE, once you learn to use these tools you don't want to go back to the days without it.

Speed

• Bard is very fast- similar to GPT 3.5 Turbo
• You need to multitask two GPT4 instances side by side to compensate for how slow GPT4 can be

Reliability

• Bard lies and makes up fake API calls more than GPT4

UI

• Bard UI is garbage - You have to keep manually scrolling down the chat window, and for some reason the largest button on the page is "stop" (???)
• You can tell Bard to modify its response to be longer/shorter and a few other options - I thought this would be useful, but it never ended up helping

Memory

• Bard has really short memory - Forgets details from last response!
• GPT4 memory is also unreliable, any details that are important you have to repeat

Intelligence

• GPT4 is objectively smarter

Internet Search

• GPT4 Internet search is garbage
• Bard has "Verify with Google" - I had high hopes for this, but never actually had a use for it

Willingness to give full code

• GPT4 is bad, but Bard is worse. Both need to be begged/threatened to return more than 100 lines of directly paste-able code.

Generating Useful Code

• Bard can give more concise medium complexity functions

Adding tougher features

• Bard hallucinates and lies

Dealing with lies

• When you tell GPT something doesn't work, GPT will try something else
• When you tell Bard something doesn't work, Bard will lie, claim to fix it, then give back the same code

Following Instructions

• GPT4 sometimes doesn't follow instructions, but improving the prompt will fix that. Bard will happily ignore instructions, as clear as they may be.

Summary:

• GPT4 is still objectively better than Bard. Quite frankly, the prompts Bard couldn't handle, GPT3.5 could.
• The cons of GPT can be worked around, but for Bard, it's almost faster to do it yourself. Unless Bard was used like Copilot for short 1-2 lines of autocomplete, I wouldn't trust it.

PS: If you're not using AI yet for development, I highly recommend it - It's like using an IDE instead of Notepad. AI can easily 2-3x your output, but you have to learn how it works so you can prompt it correctly, and you have be good at fixing its mistakes.