[Wine] Soul Reaver 2 v1.01 sound buffer underrun

[Plamen Vassilev]

Dean,

thanks for your quick response. I fiddled around with my wine settings (and 
game settings too), checked out the registry entries from 
http://wiki.winehq.com/UsefulRegistryKeys, and must say that these problems 
with the sound are much bigger when ALSA is on. When running SR2 with OSS 
(ALSA unchecked) there are still minor problems with the sound, but they are 
nothing compared with the sound "effects" with ALSA turned on. Also I found 
out another problem with the game, but it's related to the graphics. I turned 
off vertex and pixel shaders, because when they are turned on - only the 
movies appear OK, everything else is dark and brownish. But even with shaders 
off, after a while the game display starts to look like many random and 
scattered triangle polygons with different colors. When moving the mouse 
occasionally the display "auto corrects" and for a second I am able to take a 
glimpse at the game, and then the image again turns into pink, blue green 
triangles. I was not able to take a screenshot yet, but I will do that next 
time when this happens.

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 00:12, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> use the alsa driver
> and activate the option 'UseDirectHW' with regedit
>
> http://wiki.winehq.com/UsefulRegistryKeys
>
> this fixed similar problems for me in swat 4 and generally
> seemed to make alsa sound run better. (although some things
> still need oss i.e. halflife 2)
>
> Dean
>
> Plamen Vassilev wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I am experiencing sound problems with Soul Reaver 2, follows the initial
> > log after starting the game.
> >
> > $wine sr2.exe
> > fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59
> > (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
> > fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x17a890) : stub,
> > simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
> > fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_ValidateDevice (0x17a890) : stub
> > loading PCEnglish\locals.bin
> > fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
> > err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x216618
> > err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x15604f8
> > fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=11776
> > < primary_done=15904)
> > fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=11776
> > < primary_done=15904)
> > fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=11776
> > < primary_done=15904)
> > fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=1948 <
> > primary_done=6816)
> > fixme:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne problem with underrun detection (mixlen=2256 <
> > primary_done=6816)
> > (snip)
> > many lines like that follow and the sound is jerky
> >
> > I looked at the AppDB and found that others have managed to run the game
> > but with sound problems too. My question is what seems to be the problem
> > and what needs to be done in order to get it fixed. Environment details
> > follow:
> >
> > $wine --version
> > wine-0.9.30
> > Windows version: Windows XP
> >
> > $uname -a
> > Linux amd64k8nnxp 2.6.19.2 #1 PREEMPT Thu Jan 18 10:50:21 EET 2007 i686
> > unknown unknown GNU/Linux
> >
> > OS: Slackware 10.2
> > kde 3.5.5
> > ALSA and OSS
> >
> > CPU  : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
> > MEM:
> > MemTotal:      1034248 kB
> > SwapTotal:     9960220 kB
> >
> > What are the next steps in order to get this issue resolved? Should I
> > file a bug or maybe post an entry in AppDB? What debug variable should I
> > turn on, when starting the game in order to get more information on the
> > problem? Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you for your time and consideration, and please excuse my poor
> > English.

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regards
Plamen Vassilev
Software Engineer & System Administrator

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