On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. When I was trying to get WINE to behave I would sometime rename my .wine to back it up and start over. That let me know if it was something I screwed up in the configuration. Sometime copying to files from one to the other worked, other times I had to reinstall. Drastic, but it's a good last resort. And you can always move it back without loosing anything. Richard -- 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
