DirectSound, new patch available for testing

[Randall Walls]

Tested again with BattleZone2 and I'm still getting what sounds like 
serious buffer underruns with this new patch. This one seemed to 'skip' 
a bit more too, depending on action taking place on screen, but that 
could be due to other issues (system load etc...). Running with Alsa as 
the audio driver and full hardware acceleration, no emulation. Tested 
both with and without the registry key set, and stuttering and the 
looping sounds actually seemed to get worse WITH the key. Switched to 
OSS driver to test (this would be Alsa's OSS emulation) and I still get 
the repeating sounds but some of the other issues are better. 
BattleZone2 does have a demo that can still be found online, and there 
was a patch on the list not too long ago to get the demo up and running.

Again, let me know if any traces would be benneficial.

Randall Walls

Davin McCall wrote:

>To all those who tested my previous patch, thanks.
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>I have a new patch which may help to resolve some of the (few) issues which cropped up. The "length not a multiple of block size" issue has been partially addressed. Also, buffer underruns should be far less frequent than the previous patch if direct hardware access is used (set registry key \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Alsa Driver\UseDirectHW to "y").
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>I'll leave this for a few days and if there are no reports of breakages I'll send it (as two seperate patches) to wine-patches.
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>Davin
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