https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56164
Bug ID: 56164 Summary: Unigine Sanctuary does not work stable with native openal32.dll Product: Wine Version: 9.0-rc4 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: openal32 Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: kle@bluewin.ch Distribution: ---
Hi all
This is my second bug report about Unigine Sanctuary. That old benchmark worked fine (with Gallium Nine) in older Wine releases when the built-in "openal32.dll" was present.
However, since this file was removed somewhere in Wine 8.0 this benchmark no longer works reliable. In my case I can confirm a reproducible hard hang of the whole Linux environment.
Until now I was not able to find a native replacement of that "openal32.dll" library which is on par with the former built-in one.
As a conclusion I would say that in regard to the stability and compatibility of older Windows applications it was unwise to remove the built-in "openal32.dll". The main argument was that no Windows version contains that file so it is also not needed in Wine.
Well, it looks that the built-in "openal32.dll" variant is simply better than the original native releases.
There should at least exist the possibility to download the built-in "openal32.dll" file separately. This would allow end-users to made a manual override by setting the former built-in variant as the native one. :-)
This was tested under Kubuntu 22.04 LTS with Mesa 24.0-git2401110600.813b19-oibaf-j (git-813b193 2024-01-11 jammy-oibaf-ppa). The system is an old iMac 12,2 containing an Radeon HD 6770M GPU which is using the r600 Mesa driver.
The Unigine Sanctuary benchmark can be downloaded from the original website: https://benchmark.unigine.com/sanctuary
Note, bug 56163 describes the problem of Unigine Sanctuary with the OGL/WineD3D rendering path.