https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46072
--- Comment #6 from Tom B tom@r.je --- In addition, using winetricks sound=alsa does not fix the stutter, it's audio related but not pulseaudio specific.
I've also played around with the game's settings with no luck. Other than volume controls the only in-game setting is "Use 3d sound" which I've tried checked and unchecked, no difference.
There are some audio related ini options in Freelancer\EXE\dacom.ini but I'm not convinced they're even used by the game:
[SoundManager] ;HEADPHONES 1, STERO 2, QUAD 7, SURROUND 8 ;speakerConfiguration = 2 ;set only if you want to override Windows setting createAll2dInSoftware = true 3D_SW_Algorithm = Light use2DHW = true use3DHW = true maxSoundChannels = 24 ; was 30. changed for Beta -psw ;pci - force HW mixing until Library default is changed FORCE_FREQ_CONTROL_TO_SW = false max3DPan = 15
Swapping the trues to falses and setting the numbers to *2, 100000, 1 or 0 makes no noticeable difference to the in-game audio and doesn't fix the stutter.