[Bug 38536] New: Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38536

Bug ID: 38536
           Summary: Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.34
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-dsound
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Hi, Wine 1.7.34 broke the audio in Raven Shield:

* The female intro commentary voice is quieter than normal.
* In-game sounds such as the player's own guns and footsteps are silent -
although enemy sounds are normal.

This problem still exists in Wine 1.7.42.

In Wine 1.7.33 and earlier, sound worked correctly.

Possibly related: bug #38391 (sound fade-out)

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38536

Sebastian Lackner  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Sebastian Lackner  ---
Could you please do a regression test to find out which commit exactly broke
it? You can find information about how to do a regression test here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

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Paul Bredbury  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Paul Bredbury  ---
77b2ab21f45bc6773f539f2ae04edbf9cf09ac48 is the first bad commit
commit 77b2ab21f45bc6773f539f2ae04edbf9cf09ac48
Author: Mark Harmstone 
Date:   Tue Jan 6 19:27:21 2015 +0000

dsound: Support 5.1 sound.

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/77b2ab21f45bc6773f539f2ae04edbf...

I'm using stereo (headphones).

Toggling the in-game option "3D audio" makes no difference.

The option for EAX is always off & greyed-out, unselectable.

Wine spams the console with:
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_AcquireResources
(0x90c5c08,00000004,0,(nil)): stub, faking success

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38536

Paul Bredbury  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Paul Bredbury  ---
Fixed - this was a configuration error.

In winecfg (in later wine versions, e.g. 1.7.42), under Audio, it now shows
e.g. 5.1 Surround, and lets us edit that.

In my wine prefix, "Out: default" had somehow defaulted to "5.1 Surround" - and
of course, prior to wine 1.7.36 this was hidden (
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/b2dede79504c01e46bffd08684bec1d...
).

Changing "Out: default" to "Stereo" fixes the audio problem.

That default is strange - is it a (separate) bug? I'm not the only person to be
tripped up by it:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?113560-Wine-1-7-36-Adds-Speake...

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

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Andrew Eikum  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Andrew Eikum  ---
No, you're by far not the first person to run into this. I've just sent a patch
to default to Stereo configuration if we aren't certain of the true number of
speakers.

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Paul Bredbury  changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Paul Bredbury  ---
Reopening - strangely, the female intro commentary voice is quieter than normal
*again*, even when set to "Stereo".

I assume (as an explanation of why the audio problem was fixed for me, and is
now broken only a little bit) that there's some registry "corruption" involved
when switching between current and pre-1.7.34 Wine.

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38536

--- Comment #6 from Paul Bredbury  ---
(In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #4)
> I've just sent a
> patch to default to Stereo configuration if we aren't certain of the true
> number of speakers.

I see it - https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2015-May/139270.html

I've just tried your patch in Wine 1.7.43 - has no effect on my commentary
voice quietness issue, although of course I've already selected Stereo in
winecfg.

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38536

--- Comment #7 from Austin English  ---
(In reply to Paul Bredbury from comment #5)
> Reopening - strangely, the female intro commentary voice is quieter than
> normal *again*, even when set to "Stereo".
>
> I assume (as an explanation of why the audio problem was fixed for me, and
> is now broken only a little bit) that there's some registry "corruption"
> involved when switching between current and pre-1.7.34 Wine.

Please try in a clean WINEPREFIX with current wine then.

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

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--- Comment #8 from Andrew Eikum  ---
I retested with this demo:
http://www.fileplanet.com/120823/download/Tom-Clancy%27s-Rainbow-Six:-Raven-...

It seems to be working for me. Paul, can you retest with a new wineprefix and
verify it's working for you?

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Paul Bredbury  changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |ABANDONED

--- Comment #9 from Paul Bredbury  ---
Yes, the *demo* has correct audio, with the announcer coming out of both sides
of the headphones. I tried it with wine 1.8-rc1

However, with my custom wineprefix containing Iron Wrath and RavenShield 2.0 (
http://www.moddb.com/mods/raven-shield-two-point-zero ), I still have the audio
regression, between wine 1.7.33 (Athena Sword's announcer audio coming out of
only the left side, but sounding sufficiently loud), and both wine 1.7.55 (with
wine-staging patches) and wine 1.8-rc1 (vanilla) with very *faint* announcer
audio.

This is a strange bug, because in the same Raven Shield installation, the Iron
Wrath mod has decent-sounding announcer audio, but the Athena Sword mod is
quiet.

I give up, for now, sorry, because I cannot provide a simple way for others to
reproduce this bug - marking as "abandoned".

[Bug 38536] Audio quiet in Raven Shield since wine 1.7.34

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Austin English  ---
Closing.