[Bug 25633] Chip's Challenge crashes Wine after about 10 minutes of gameplay.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25633

--- Comment #19 from David  2011-01-10 09:47:53 CST ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> Refer to the author of winepulse 's comment at
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495#c144
>
> "The audio api, designed probably in the early 90s for PCs "
>
> "reason is the waveout functions. Through libalsa pulse, calls such as
> waveOutReset() and waveOutResume() require a reconnection to pulseaudio each
> call."
>
> This application is 16 bits application in early 90s and your log have numerous
> waveOutReset()
>
> So the crash is related to wine call snd_pcm_prepare() and this call is
> translated to "alsa-pulse" plugin 's pulse_prepare() which close the connection
> to PA server
>
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-plugins.git;a=blob;f=pulse/pcm_pulse.c;h...

Looks like I've touched on something highly technical.  What I can definitely
say is that the sound files used by Chip's Challenge do play properly OUTSIDE
of Wine.  If you enable any of the sound options in Chip's Challenge, Wine will
crash regularly - roughly every 10 minutes or so.