http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28517
--- Comment #16 from A Wine user RandomAccountName@mail.com 2011-10-05 04:45:03 CDT --- (In reply to comment #15)
I'd be interested to hear how that patch helps. Such a mechanism is needed regardless of Andrew's other changes.
On its own, this patch prevented sound effects from vanishing entirely, but they quickly became distorted - too high-pitched, echoed, cut off, etc. I tried combining it with Andrew Eikum's dsound patch, and this combination works quite a bit better, but rarely, a lone sound effect still gets distorted.
I also tried using both of Andrew Eikum's patches, and everything seems to work correctly thus far, but I'll try to test them a bit more later just in case the random distortion is still there and I happened to get lucky this time.