[Bug 15559] winealsa sound regression: scratchiness/stutter in multiple games

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15559





--- Comment #19 from Arkadiusz Piekarz <piekarzarkadiusz at gmail.com>  2008-10-28 13:53:37 ---
The PulseAudio is causing the problems, not Alsa!

I've stumbled upon this site
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/280534/ where you
can clearly see people are experiencing sound problems in many applications,
not only Wine. This particular comment -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/280534/comments/27 -
gave me some hints what to do. I've terminated/killed PulseAudio
(/usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog). Then I tested games on Steam with
OSS and with Alsa - no crackling, no stuttering :-)

The only thing you have to remember is only one application can play sound at
any given time. Especially, you have to disable sound driver in Winecfg before
you launch Steam, then enable sound after it loads and play any game.

Wine 1.1.7, Ubuntu 8.10, Metacity, Alsa 1.0.17, PulseAudio 0.9.10. Tested with
Team Fortress 2 and Everyday Shooter.

BTW I thought PulseAudio would be fixed in Ubuntu 8.10 :-/


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