wine users - Jun 2010 - Re: Links 2003 & Grand Prix 4

Update:

Grand Prix 4 plays almost flawlessly with Catalyst 10.6 and WINE 1.2rc3.. 

HOWEVER, over the past few releases of WINE (audio work), I've noticed that
partly through the playback of Grand Prix 4, the audio suddenly stops. Prior to
1.2rc3, Grand Prix 4 used to crash shortly thereafter. However, since WINE
1.2rc3, after the audio stops, Grand Prix 4 continues without crashing ... just
without audio. Only restarting Grand Prix 4 restores the audio temporarily
before it repeats the pattern.
I get following error from the console:

err:mmtime:TIME_MMTimeStop Timer still active?!

tpreitzel wrote:
> Update:
> 
> Grand Prix 4 plays almost flawlessly with Catalyst 10.6 and WINE 1.2rc3.. 
> 
> HOWEVER, over the past few releases of WINE (audio work), I've noticed
that partly through the playback of Grand Prix 4, the audio suddenly stops.
Prior to 1.2rc3, Grand Prix 4 used to crash shortly thereafter. However, since
WINE 1.2rc3, after the audio stops, Grand Prix 4 continues without crashing ...
just without audio. Only restarting Grand Prix 4 restores the audio temporarily
before it repeats the pattern.
> I get following error from the console:
> 
> 

With WINE 1.2rc4, Grand Prix 4 is back to it's old behavior, i.e. the game
crashing after the audio stops. Grand Prix 4 does use some weird method of
detecting audio acceleration, however. For the game to be playable, this problem
must be located and fixed.