wine users - Sep 2009 - PulseAudio - atleast one possbile quickfix, need confirmatio

Hello,

As we known PulseAudio is not yet officially supported by Wine.

I recently installed Mint 7 Gloria (Gnome) and kicked on wine for my old DnD
online.

noticed that with pulseaudio (Alsa in winecfg, only thing selectable) the audio
seems a touch choppy occasionally and it randomly mutes itself.

Went through a couple of forums etc till noticed the following :

1) open winecfg, select audio tab, select acceleration to emulate, TEST the
sound, enable desktop integration (set reso) LEAVE winecfg open (unless need
reopening for keeping winecfg in window)
2) kick on pylotro (launcher for DDO, irrelevant since launches Wine regardless)
3) play the game (might need windowed mode)

This way the audio works without issues. However, occasionally it chops and lags
a little when the audio would seemingly stop. And it does if you dont have
winecfg open.

Dont know if this is due to winecfg keeping the pulseaudio stream constantly
opened (although not constantly streaming) or not. (keeping ALSA from purging
the cache for wine, which would then drop it from Pulseaudio, since ALSA cant
access PA cache or something similar... dont know).

Anyway, just a little bit of something. Would like someone to confirm this if
possible. (mostly for others and myself to know if its one of those things on
this laptop / pulseaudio)

Forgot to note...

running atm in W2k mode Wine 1.01 ubuntu packet.
used winetricks to install dx9 and a few fonts.

(yes, disabled all MS dx9 items when ran DDO, no effect)

Hiippi wrote:
> Forgot to note...
>
> running atm in W2k mode Wine 1.01 ubuntu packet.
> used winetricks to install dx9 and a few fonts.
>
> (yes, disabled all MS dx9 items when ran DDO, no effect)
>
>   
Try this with Wine 1.1.30 when it is released for Ubuntu.  The version
of Wine you are using is O L D (over one year.)

James McKenzie

James McKenzie wrote:
> Hiippi wrote:
> Try this with Wine 1.1.30 when it is released for Ubuntu.  The version
> of Wine you are using is O L D (over one year.)
> 
> James McKenzie
Now now, let's not exaggerate here. It's approximately 11 months old.