On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:29 PM, stan <gryt2@xxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:27:22 -0600 > Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> To follow up, I did manage to get wine to use alsa (it's important to >> install the i686 packages as well as x86_64), but it's still running >> very slowly for me. So I have sound in the game but still just a few >> (< 5) frames per second. I'm pretty sure pulseaudio is out of the >> equation now, so I'm not sure what else could be wrong. Even with >> alsa, the audio is a little choppy. At least it's playable and the >> sound never cuts out. (It's the same with a different account, by the >> way.) > > It sounds to me like alsa might be doing rate conversion. That is, the > alsa device has been opened at one rate, say 44100 frames/second, and > the game is playing audio which requires 48000 frames/second. The > higher the numbers are, the more conversion work the CPU has to do in a > shorter time, and that could impact your user experience. I did try specifying 48000 in winecfg (which I assume is where you mean I should fiddle with it), and it seems to have helped a little bit. The sound seemed a little less choppy. But for some reason, it starts out fine and gets a little worse over the course of a few minutes. > It is also possible that there is something running in the background > that doesn't have a low enough priority and is preventing the interrupt > for alsa from operating in a timely manner. I think there is a way to > set niceness so that alsa is very high priority, a config file > in /etc. Can't remember the name, a search should turn it up. I'll do some more digging on that. > The wine api that pretends it is the sound device in windows might also > be causing a problem in some way as it passes the data through to linux. > > Just some more possibilities. Thanks! Reid -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
