wine users - May 2008 - Surround Sound and EAX

Hi there,

I've been searching for a while now, for an answer, whether or not EAX and
surround sound is supported in wine. And all I've found are contradictory
opinions. So, still I can't get neither to work, and I hope, this is the
right place to ask for help. [Wink]

As I understood it, wine should be able to play surround sound, when alsa is
able to do it. "speaker-test" showed me, that all 4 speakers can be
addressed seperately, so surround sound seems to be no problem for alsa. Still
it is not working in wine.

And eax... Well... Some said it is supported under linux and most said it
isn't. Now, is it? And if it is. Is it also supported in wine? Do I have to
do something crazy, to get this to work, or can I give up trying, now?

This is my configuration:
Soundcard: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS (PCI), with 4.0 surround speakers
ALSA version: 1.0.16
WINE version: 1.0rc2
OS: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

The games I've tested:
Diablo II, Lord of Destruction
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings

Thanks,
  Wolfgang

mike el angelo wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've been searching for a while now, for an answer, whether or not EAX
and surround sound is supported in wine.
No. Both are not supported.