https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38313
Bug ID: 38313 Summary: broken surround sound in skyrim (and possible games which do not have advanced sound settings) Product: Wine Version: 1.7.39 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: winealsa.drv Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: cute.dark.sorcerer@gmail.com Distribution: ---
Created attachment 51154 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=51154 probably useless wine output
similar to bug 37957, when playing skyrim, there's no sound from front or back. Example: in order to hear a NPC, you have to turn your side to him.
Tested this on new wineprefix (wow64 setup) and double checked the audio tab in winecfg (every device is set to stereo). Also tested mono as well as quadrophone (I do have 4.1 speakers), but sound will only play from side-speakers.
Sound in other games (dishonored, resident evil revelations, aliens colonial marines) works normally. In those games however, you can change sound to stereo/surround via settings. Skyrim does not offer this.
Is there a way to 'force' a specific application to use stereo/surround and how can you disable this?
Gentoo x86-64 media-libs/alsa-lib Latest version installed: 1.0.29