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[PATCH v11 0/1] MR9840: winepulse.drv: A potential solution to audio crackling
by Dzmitry Keremsha (＠Vyrolian) 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

I have noticed that winepulse leaves too little headroom when draining the buffer, which very often leads to crackling that can't be fully resolved by manipulating latency. Let's check some math: Let's assume that the buffer (tlength) is at 33ms, and minreq is at 13.3ms. If 13.2 ms were drained, the refill would be denied. If the next timer trigger takes 14ms due to jitter, that leaves us with a 6.1ms margin. As such, if we get any jitter longer than that during refill, we get an underflow. I think this is what leads to crackles. My solution increases timer polling to 5x the frequency, so if 13.2ms were drained, the next timer trigger would happen at around 16ms. That would leave us with a 17ms headroom. The math might not be 100% representation of what happens, but I think it's quite close to reality. On practice, this does indeed help to fully get rid of crackling for an indefinite amount of time, when before they were unevitable. I think this problem is quite urgent, because while this does not happen on every system, it's frequent enough that we see "Audio: Crackling" reports on most games on protondb and there are many forum threads about audio crackling. From my experience, the only solution was switching to winealsa, which is very consistent and does not crackle at all. My experience has been very consistent with forum threads when it came to the nature of crackling. I first noticed it in Balatro, which is a very light game and should not be crackling at all on any setup. Some games have very frequent crackling every 20-30 seconds, or buzzsaw crackling every 10-15 minutes. I hope my idea brings us closer to the ultimate fix, I really look forward to your feedback! -- v11: winepulse.drv: Increase timer frequency https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9840

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[PATCH 0/1] MR9959: gdiplus/tests: Add tests for GdipWarpPath
by Bartosz Kosiorek (＠gang65) 24 Jan '26

24 Jan '26

-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9959

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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MR9940: Include inkobj - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9940

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Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] MR9954: winevulkan: Update to VK spec version 1.4.340. - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9954

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Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] MR9952: ntdll: Add stub function for NtWorkerFactoryWorkerReady(). - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9952

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Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] MR9489: mf: Test seeking within sample grabber. - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9489

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Re: [PATCH v6 0/1] MR9719: mfmediaengine/tests: Test we receive a frame before calling Play. - approved
by Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

This merge request was approved by Alexandre Julliard. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9719

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Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] MR2044: ntoskrnl.exe: Implement acquiring and releasing guarded mutexes
by Colleirose (＠colleirose) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

On Fri Jan 23 14:53:23 2026 +0000, Etaash Mathamsetty wrote: > Here is the original repo they got the patches from: https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/wine-valve.git Got it, thank you :) -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2044#note_127790

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[PATCH 0/6] MR9957: PDB speedup 3
by eric pouech (＠epo) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

This serie continues the optimization for gaining speed and memory consumption in PDB reader. It mostly consists of refactoring, and preparing the next serie by letting a couple of helpers be compatible with symref\_t descriptors. It also fixes dbghelp to be compatible with native behavior wrt. variables with thread storage. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9957

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[PATCH v2 0/2] MR9954: winevulkan: Update to VK spec version 1.3.340.
by Georg Lehmann (＠DadSchoorse) 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

-- v2: winevulkan: Update to VK spec version 1.4.340. winevulkan: Update to VK spec version 1.4.339. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9954

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