wine users - Aug 2009 - Wine Battlefield 1942 Sound

Can someone explain Jeff's hack, I really want to play BF1942 with sound
fixed,especially with kdog's comment 15. Thanks

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11499#c15

Thank You, so far both Fedora and Ubuntu forums are mute

duke11235 wrote:
> Can someone explain Jeff's hack, I really want to play BF1942 with
sound fixed,especially with kdog's comment 15.
Most likely this (watchout for wrapped lines):

Code:

diff --git a/dlls/dsound/sound3d.c b/dlls/dsound/sound3d.c
index 252c763..afef379 100644
--- a/dlls/dsound/sound3d.c
+++ b/dlls/dsound/sound3d.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ void DSOUND_Calc3DBuffer(IDirectSoundBufferImpl *dsb)
                flDistance = dsb->ds3db_ds3db.flMinDistance;

        /* attenuation proportional to the distance squared, converted to
millibels as in lVolume*/
-       lVolume -= log10(flDistance/dsb->ds3db_ds3db.flMinDistance *
flDistance/dsb->ds3db_ds3db.flMinDistance)*1000;
+       lVolume += 1000 * log10(1.0/flDistance);
        TRACE("dist. att: Distance = %f, MinDistance = %f => adjusting
volume %d to %f\n", flDistance, dsb->ds3db_ds3db.flMinDistance,
dsb->ds3db_lVolume, lVolume);

        /* conning */

duke11235 wrote:
> So all I have to do is save that file as .diff and follow the instructions.
Pretty much, or do that one line change manually.


duke11235 wrote:
> How long do you think before it is patched upstream?
No idea, that patch rather looks like a hack. And hacks are not accepted into
Wine.

For the wine source folder, it just oges in, not in any of the sub-directories
~/wine-git/