[Bug 10603] IDirectSoundBufferImpl_SetFX needed for sound effects in several games

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10603


GyB <gyebro69 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from GyB <gyebro69 at gmail.com>  2010-07-19 12:50:20 ---
I'd like to respond to the original bug reporter, who stated: the missing
sounds in Sub Command and Dangerous Waters are due to the unimplemented
functions in dsound.

He's completely wrong: the problem lies somewhere else in Wine. After running
these games with a winedebug=+file traces it turned out Wine cannot open the
corresponding sound (.wav) files. Here's a relevant line from the log:

warn:file:OpenFile (C:\Program Files\Sonalysts Combat Simulations\Dangerous
Waters Demo\Audio\Sfx\sfx.agg+pinged.wav): return = HFILE_ERROR error= 2

All these games store their sound files in an Sfx.agg (compressed) file. Either
Wine has problem with extracting them or simply Wine misses something in the
pathnames directing to the files. 
Note the '+' (plus) sign in the pathname: 'sfx.agg+pinged.wav'. I don't know
what '+' means under a native Windows environment (probably that it is a
compressed file), but Wine surely misinterprets the path, thus cannot find the
files.
A 'dirty' workaround is to extract all the .wavs from the archives and place
them into a directory named 'Sfx.agg+'. Sounds are now working in these games
in Wine. For extracting, you need to use the utility agg.exe, available from
the modding section of Dangerous Waters: 
http://www.commanders-academy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modding_Tools
(After extraction a mass-rename is needed to get rid of the first 15 characters
of the extracted filenames.)

Sorry for this long-drawn-out explanation, I just wanted to point out, the
originally reported issue doesn't belong to the unimplemented function in
dsound.

Please, try these games using the aforementioned 'hack' (e.g. extracting the
.wavs)

This was all tested with Wine-1.2.

P.s.: a big kudos to the guy on winehq's irc channel, who lead me to the right
direction when asked him about the issue in these games, and suggested the
solution.

This bugreport is surely valid though...for the other games reported in it, but
not for the games: Sub Command, Dangerous Waters and Jane's 688(I)
Hunter-Killer.

Regards

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