[Bug 53108] New: Skyrim SE NPC voices echo inside houses

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53108

            Bug ID: 53108
           Summary: Skyrim SE NPC voices echo inside houses
           Product: Wine
           Version: 7.9
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: xaudio2
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: marik.jiri at protonmail.com
      Distribution: ---

When inside houses all sounds seem to have a strange echo, most noticeable when
talking to NPCs.

Everything works fine throughout the tutorial, even the part that's happening
inside the fort, until the player reaches Riverwood. When talking to NPCs
inside houses there's a huge echo.

These reddit posts seem to be describing the same issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/hp0w6k/skyrim_voice_dialogue_echos_after_reaching/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/uyh5hq/skyrim_se_voices_echoing_when_inside_buildings/

As recommended in those posts I tried to use native xaudio2_7 library. I also
tried installing faudio through winetricks but there was no change.

Installing xact made no difference either.

All changes were tried on a fresh prefix.

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OS: Fedora 35
Audio: Pulseaudio 15 (not using pipewire currently but others reported same
issue with pipewire as well)
Wine version: 7.9 (Staging)
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I also tried downgrading wine to version 6.16-1 and I lost all voice audio on a
fresh prefix. I got voice audio back when I installed faudio but the same echo
issue was back.
Since installing faudio resolved this issue for other people in the past I also
tried installing earliest version of faudio in the repos (faudio1901) but the
echo is still there.

Last thing to mention, this issue is only affecting Skyrim Special Edition at
the moment. Vanilla Skyrim voices work fine.

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