Delay in sound with arts sound driver

[Travis Watkins]

On 11/21/05, Dustin Navea <speeddymon at gmail.com> wrote:
> When running the installer for starcraft, when moving the mouse over any
> of the options, it highlights that option, and plays a sound.  When arts
> is set to sleep (to prevent blocking), and using the ALSA driver,
> everything works fine, when you move the mouse over the options, the
> sound immediately plays..  but when using the aRTS driver, the sound
> comes out about half a second after the mouse is moved over an option
> and the highlighting appears.  This isnt anything major to me, but
> either way, wine shouldn't do that... unless it's something to do with
> aRTS, in which case, we could contact the devs there and have them look
> into it....  Either way, if anyone that knows how to work on the arts
> driver and has a copy of the starcraft cd laying around could take a
> look, please do, and if that's not possible, let me know what I can do
> to help...
>
> Note that I have not tried playing the game with arts yet, as i'm still
> in the middle of finding and reporting apps that dont work.
>
> Dustin
>
>
>

I'm guessing this is because of the latency that arts gives you in
exchange for network transparency. Also, arts is basically
unmaintained.

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Travis Watkins
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