wine users - Mar 2007 - NASCAR 2003 and sound issues

I've submitted a bug on this issue, but I'm hoping to find a
workaround that may help resolve the bug or get me to where I want to
be - racing this game.

Wine 0.9.22-9ubuntu3 (edgy)
Installed on Ubuntu - Edgy Eft (2.6.17-10-generic)
I did not compile this, installed as a package via Ubuntu's App
Manager
I don't use Windows with wine

Application: NASCAR 2003 (CD Installed version, no patches or mods)
Command line:  wine NR2003.exe

Behavior: The game starts with the intro movie correctly. The sound
seems to "repeat" - this is mainly the clicks" and audio feedback
to
making choices. I can make the game "lock up" by clicking on menu
choices as I enter the game. The sound just repeats over and over and
never seems to get better. The sounds do sound correct. This behavior
makes the game unplayable, as I can't even set options without the
sound locking the game up.

Interestingly, this problem seemed to lessen (very little lockup, but
still sound duplication) when I ran in debug mode to generate the
file.

Additional info:
Audio settings (from winecfg):
OSS Driver selected
Hardware Accelleration: Emulation
Default Sample Rate: 22050
Default bits: 8
Driver emulation: No

Audio device: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio (Intel)

I noticed the following messages on the console when having this
issue:
fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection
(mixlen=8072 <
primary_done=49392)
...
err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x1ad5d60
[many of those repeated then...]

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xf41a08 "?" wait timed
out in
thread 0014, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)

It's this block that makes the game unusable - the sound just repeats
over and over the same thing.

I've tried some of the other audio settings which don't seem to work.
The game does run if I disable all audio. :) Not too useful.

Is there a setting that I should be trying? Is there a driver that I
should update? 3

The bug link: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7415

Regards,
chgowiz

MichaelS <chgowiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed the following messages on the console when having this
> issue:
> fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection
> (mixlen=8072 <
> primary_done=49392)
> ...
> err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x1ad5d60
> [many of those repeated then...]
Those aren't your problem. The dsound code has problems, one of which
you are seeing (those messagese) and hearing (the repetitions).
> err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xf41a08 "?" wait
timed
> out in
> thread 0014, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)
This is likely not related to sound at all. Wine sometimes has timing
problems, which cause problems between threads that don't occur in
windows. There is no solution I know of.

Daniel
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Which wine version? Self compiled or prepackaged?

On Feb 13, 4:24 pm, "MichaelS" <chgo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Wine 0.9.22-9ubuntu3 (edgy)
> Installed on Ubuntu - Edgy Eft (2.6.17-10-generic)
> I did not compile this, installed as a package via Ubuntu's App
> Manager
Update Wine.  0.9.30 is available.
> Behavior: The game starts with the intro movie correctly. The sound
> seems to "repeat" - this is mainly the clicks" and audio
feedback to
> making choices.
Run winecfg and try Alsa (or jack) for sound.