https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51555
--- Comment #4 from mewt.reaper@gmail.com --- (In reply to Sveinar Søpler from comment #2)
(In reply to mewt.reaper from comment #0)
Upon upgrading to 6.14-staging from 6.9-staging audio is World of Warcraft crackles continuously. This is a regression as downgrading back to 6.9-staging fixes the issue.
I was not able to recreate this. Made a new prefix with upstream wine-6.14, no crackling. Switch to WineHQ provided wine-staging-6.14 (Ubuntu20.04), no crackling.
Any particular place this happens? Did not test this other than running around briefly in Stormwind, but the report was "Crackles continously", so that would indicate "all the time"?
Pulsaudio 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.11 Custom kernel 5.13.8
8/6 14:47:11.320 - =========== MISC =========== 8/6 14:47:11.320 - Sound Channels [64] 8/6 14:47:11.320 - Sound Cache [128MB] 8/6 14:47:11.320 - Mix Mode 2 [0] 8/6 14:47:11.320 - DSP Buffer Size [AUTO] 8/6 14:47:11.320 - Armor Foley SFX (Self) [1] 8/6 14:47:11.320 - Armor Foley SFX (Others) [1] 8/6 14:47:11.320 => End of User Settings Report
From /World of Warcraft/_retail_/Logs/Sound.log
Tested in Korthia and other places and there is faint crackling as part of the background sounds of the zones.
Going into settings and changing the number of sound channels seems to force a reset of some kind and the crackling reduces for a while and then returns slowly.
Pulseaudio 15.0-1 Kernel 5.13.7-arch1-1
attached is Sound.log showing the changes in sound channel selections