[Bug 27453] Lag when loading new sound in source games

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27453

--- Comment #9 from Nephyrin zey  2011-08-14 14:41:22 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Disabling sound entirely doesn't fix the stuttering, so I see no reason to
> > believe this is sound related.
>
> How did you diabled the sound ? There are great chances that even with no sound
> (volume off / mute) the sounds are loaded into memory and even played by the
> computer.

You can start the game with the '-nosound' command line option to disable the
sound system completely. That aside, I don't get these stutters with GLSL off,
so it seems a much more likely culprit.

Are you using nvidia binary drivers, by chance?