Hi all! Short: Concerning 3D sound effects in games (3D positional and echo etc. effects), what's the state of things in Wine? Long: I don't know how Windows is handling 3D sound since I didn't play in Windows for ages. Searching on the net I found that it seems that dsound handles positional as well as other (echo etc.) effects, possibly accelerated in hardware. Quickly looking at Wine sources, it looks like none of this is really implemented? So no ds3d echo and positional effects in Wine? Any solution in sight? Regards
M.Kiesel wrote:> Hi all! > > Short: > Concerning 3D sound effects in games (3D positional and echo etc. > effects), what's the state of things in Wine? > > Long: > I don't know how Windows is handling 3D sound since I didn't play in > Windows for ages. Searching on the net I found that it seems that dsound > handles positional as well as other (echo etc.) effects, possibly > accelerated in hardware. > Quickly looking at Wine sources, it looks like none of this is really > implemented? So no ds3d echo and positional effects in Wine? Any solution > in sight? > > RegardsBest way to find out: try it and see. The only application that I have which uses ds3d is Battlefield 1942, the positional audio doesn't work very well as is, the volume vs distance calculation is wrong, so unless you're really close to something the volume is either too low or non-existent. Comment #15 in bug 11499[1] appears to rectify this. 1. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11499
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:20 AM, M.Kiesel <wine-devel at continuity.cjb.net> wrote:> Hi all! > > Short: > Concerning 3D sound effects in games (3D positional and echo etc. effects), > what's the state of things in Wine? > > Long: > I don't know how Windows is handling 3D sound since I didn't play in Windows > for ages. Searching on the net I found that it seems that dsound handles > positional as well as other (echo etc.) effects, possibly accelerated in > hardware. > Quickly looking at Wine sources, it looks like none of this is really > implemented? So no ds3d echo and positional effects in Wine? Any solution in > sight? > > Regards > >http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11764 -- -Austin
M.Kiesel wrote:> I read that there have been several efforts of creating an OpenAL backend for Wine. Shouldn't this solve many of the issues?Yeah there were few. But they won't solve everything. Last time I've checked state of OpenAL on Linux is was horribly lagging behind Creative's OpenAL on Windows. Also there are no native OpenAL drivers for Linux so not everything supported by hardware is available. M.Kiesel wrote:> Have these projects been abandoned?Pretty much.