No sound in games under Wine if used PulseAudio

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Binary package hint: wine1.2

Sound testing in Wine Configurations work, but there is no sound in games under wine at all. Without PulseAudio on Lucid with same verion Wine (from ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa) same games work with sound.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: wine1.2 1.1.42-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-9.14-generic 2.6.35-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 21 16:14:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine1.2

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Have you tried changing the audio driver under Configure Wine (winecfg) > Audio tab?

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

See also https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.2/+bug/601715

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

> Have you tried changing the audio driver under Configure Wine (winecfg) > Audio tab?
I tried and get bad result - sound in games came back, but it's stuttering. It's work better before with hardware acceleration.

[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

Try this one, though it may cause some issues with more than one app playing sound at the same time.

1. Press alt+f2 and type: regedit
2. This is the wine registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER

[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

Edit, posted early in error: (Note case sensitive when using regedit, please type exact)

This should let Wine have direct HW access to prevent buffer underruns, the only disadvantage is that some apps do not have access to the sound card while Wine is running. Sometimes this option works best combined with OSS.

Contingency is this does not help is simply to delete the UseDIrectHW key.

1. Press alt+f2 and type: regedit
2. This is the wine registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine
3. Right click on Wine, and select New -> Key. Name the new key: Alsa Driver
4. Select Alsa Driver and right click in the white space to the right. Select New -> String Value, name the value: UseDirectHW
5. Double click UseDirectHW, and make the value: y
6. Hit ok, and close all wine apps.