[Bug 9589] New: Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

Summary: Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.44.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-directx-dsound
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

With the recent upgrade to 0.9.44, the sound in Call of Duty turned very
static, white-noiseish. Sorry I can't describe better.

No other system changes have been made between last known working version
(0.9.41, tested yesterday) and bug version (0.9.44, tested today).

Sound driver is OSS. Previously, sound was flawless.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

Alexander Winston  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Alexander Winston   2007-09-05 15:42:36 ---
This looks like a duplicate of bug 9465.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #2 from Juan Lang   2007-09-05 16:19:39 ---
Please retry with latest git.  If it still doesn't work for you, please do a
regression test to find the patch that broke it.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #3 from Brian Vuyk   2007-09-05 16:43:47 ---
@Juan:

Unfortunately, I can not invest the time in regression testing it, I merely
noticed after an upgrade when attempting to demonstrate to another person how
well CoD is handled under Wine.

I have to leave this in the hands of others.

@Alexander:

Similar behavior to that bug. However, ALSA is outputting slightly stuttery
sound, whereas ALSA works correctly in the linked bug.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #4 from James Hawkins   2007-09-05 18:07:50 ---
You should reconsider regression testing:

wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

It doesn't take very long.  If you don't have the time to do a regression test,
we'll have to mark the bug as abandoned.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #5 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-09-05 18:29:15 ---
Select OSS sound driver and set "Hardware acceleration" to "Emulation" and try
again.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

Gerald Folcher  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Gerald Folcher   2007-11-03 04:28:54 ---
Hello folks, (regression testing inside !)

This bug seems to correspond to what I am experiencing with the game
Grand Prix Legends, since Wine 0.9.43 to the last I just tried
0.9.48. That is, sound is noisy/scratchy in OSS mode, ALSA mode sounds
better but there are random ~1 second silences now and then, in either
modes selecting "Hardware acceleration" to "Emulation" doesn't help. I
don't have this problem with Wine 0.9.42 where the sound is good.

So knowing the problem seems to be between 0.9.42 and 0.9.43, I gave a
shot at regression testing following the wiki instructions, with the
assumption that the problem is in 'dlls/dsound' (I hope it's ok, it
was to avoid having a lot of iterations to do).

So I started the git bisect thing with these commands:
git bisect start dlls/dsound
git bisect good wine-0.9.42
git bisect bad wine-0.9.43
...

After 4 testing iterations it seems it finally found the specific
commit, it returned this (I scrambled a bit the author's email address
just in case...) :

36e90546298e8c096926330dd75f4e373a415171 is first bad commit
commit 36e90546298e8c096926330dd75f4e373a415171
Author: Maarten Lankhorst  m.b.lankhorst AAAAT g m a i l.com
Date:   Sun Jul 29 23:47:01 2007 +0200

dsound: Move resampling away from mixer thread.

:040000 040000 5ed63dd88502a379f31f113ff1c2ff4827b90757
06adff662282b0e6781432b241da5d25a83a17cb M      dlls

I hope this helps.

If you want to test with Grand Prix Legends a fully functional demo
(only one racing track) known as "GPL 2004 Demo" should be available
at these addresses:
http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/grandprixlegends/Thirdparty/gpl_2004_...
http://www.gamershell.com/download_6101.shtml
Once unzipped, the installer exe should have this md5sum:
9fc0abf47838a3d501386d58cffda39e  gpl_2004_demo.exe

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #7 from Gerald Folcher   2007-11-07 06:31:26 ---
Btw, if there is any doubt, please tell me if you think that I should
re-do the regression testing without specifying 'dlls/dsound' (if
there is any doubt that it may be elsewhere (?)).

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #8 from Maarten Lankhorst   2007-11-07 07:34:12 ---
Nah, it should be ok. I will take a look at it later.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #9 from Gerald Folcher   2007-12-21 19:33:49 ---
Hello again,

In Grand Prix Legends, starting from Wine 0.9.50 or maybe 0.9.49
(haven't tested this one), sound is now ok (like it was with Wine
0.9.42), but now the sound seems to affects performance very very
badly (not only framerate is low but it stutters (there are sort of
pause/warps)) when near other cars (ie: in the pit lane). It seems to
be related to sound (mixing ?) because after turning sound off with
winecfg the game is running smooth again (like 0.9.42 does with sound
(btw, I'm still using 0.9.42, I love it), or like 0.9.48 does with
scratchy/bad sound). (It seems tho that this performance problem may
not be as evident on high performance computers as someone told me he
didn't had this problem on his computer (that is much more powerful
than mine, at least for the CPU), so it may require a not too recent
computer to trigger the problem.)

But as far as Grand Prix Legends and this scratchy sound bug are
concerned it seems resolved (I'll probably open a new bug report for
the new sound/performance bug, and consider regression testing if I
can).

Btw sorry to bring a bad news with the good one, tho maybe it's not
related.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #10 from Gerald Folcher   2008-01-04 18:10:39 ---
I must correct something wrong I said in my previous post (it may be a
bit OT though it seems it could be related):

After more testing I found that the performance related to sound
problem I talked about DOES appear in fact in wine 0.9.43, only it got
worse in wine 0.9.49. Previously I didn't notice the problem in wine
0.9.43 (and up to .48) but after setting a "max sounds heard" setting
in GPLegends's game settings to the maximum (16, I was previously
using 6) the problem became evident also in wine 0.9.43, while 0.9.42
handle that with no problem (and with good sound it seems).

It seems in Wine 0.9.49, the performance problem got worse at the same
time the sound got better. Again, in Wine 0.9.42 both sound and
performance was good. I will do regression testing between 0.9.42 and
0.9.43, but this time looking for the performance problem, though I'm
thinking once I'm done it's probably better I post the results in a
new bug report about performance affected by sound (mixing?) because
it may start to be unrelated.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

--- Comment #11 from Austin English   2008-06-16 13:03:16 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.0-rc5 or newer) wine?

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

Brian Vuyk  changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Brian Vuyk   2008-06-16 13:17:46 ---
No - I tested in 1.0-rc4 and this issue doesn't happen. I just forgot to mark
as fixed. Tested both in Gnome and KDE4 (ALSA and Phonon beckends).

Marking as fixed - feel free to close.

[Bug 9589] Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9589

Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Alexandre Julliard   2008-06-17 09:26:05 ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.0.