[Bug 50001] New: Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50001

Bug ID: 50001
           Summary: Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound
           Product: Wine
           Version: 5.16
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: winepulse.drv
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]
   Regression SHA1: a10824a03cb7ad1a2a1987433c5ad832dcdf6962
      Distribution: Debian

With bug 15437 fixed I tried Epic Battle Fantasy 4 again. Which in fact runs
without any workaround, hooray. Unfortunately the sound is... glitchy. Or
crackly. Sounds kind of like a vinyl record, if that makes sense. Whatever you
call it, regression test came up with this:

a10824a03cb7ad1a2a1987433c5ad832dcdf6962 is the first bad commit
commit a10824a03cb7ad1a2a1987433c5ad832dcdf6962
Author: Andrew Eikum 
Date:   Mon Aug 17 10:38:18 2020 -0500

winepulse: Don't rely on pulseaudio callbacks for timing.

Contains contributions from Mark Harmstone and Zhiyi Zhang.

Some devices, especially USB devices, have very irregular timing or
    very long periods. Some Windows applications (The Witcher 3) are built
    to expect regular, short period times, and so would underrun when the
    device timing didn't match their expectations. This patch decouples
    the Windows-side timing from the OS-side timing so we can meet those
    applications' requirements.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum 
    Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard

:040000 040000 8a50da38b87968668b84c04a64aafeb27005c759
0cae2ea7b06cd444a0e11ffd26cbf7ca05f5738d M    dlls

If you have the game available you only need to skip to the main menu with "new
game" as an option; the music will be glitchy.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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--- Comment #1 from Andrew Eikum  ---
Thanks for reporting.

I think this is actually a side-effect of Bug 49839. The steamwebhelper process
continually crashes, which takes up a lot of server time for one reason or
another. Occasionally the audio thread gets caught up while the server is
handling the crashing processes, and so the audio output gets interrupted.

I'm able to reproduce the problem with plain Wine with Windows Steam. With
wine-staging, the steamwebhelper crashes seem not to happen, which fixes the
game audio for me.

Are you running the game via the Windows Steam client? Are you using
wine-staging, or just plain upstream Wine?

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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--- Comment #2 from Michael McGuire  ---
hmm. Seems to happen for me with either devel or staging. And I've been running
Steam with -no-browser +open steam://open/minigameslist so I assume
steamwebhelper isn't causing it. Trying a few times now, once at random it
seemed ok for a minute or so but then went off, idk.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

(In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #1)
> I think this is actually a side-effect of Bug 49839. The steamwebhelper
> process continually crashes, which takes up a lot of server time for one
> reason or another. Occasionally the audio thread gets caught up while the
> server is handling the crashing processes, and so the audio output gets
> interrupted.

I think bug 49839 is actually a dupe of bug 32342 or bug 44985. Both have
workarounds. I've updated that bug for that.

(In reply to Michael McGuire from comment #2)
> hmm. Seems to happen for me with either devel or staging. And I've been
> running Steam with -no-browser +open steam://open/minigameslist so I assume
> steamwebhelper isn't causing it. Trying a few times now, once at random it
> seemed ok for a minute or so but then went off, idk.

Are there errors spamming the terminal output?

Maybe a WINEDEBUG=+audio,+pulse,+alsa log will shows audio buffer underruns?

Regards.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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--- Comment #4 from Michael McGuire  ---
Created attachment 68430
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=68430
ebf log

With no WINEDEBUG set there really isn't anything on the terminal. The game
itself spits out some stuff that doesn't appear relevant to the problem.

Attached a log with WINEDEBUG=+audio,+pulse,+alsa. I did see something about
"underflow" while scrolling through it.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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--- Comment #5 from Michael McGuire  ---
Seems to no longer be an issue in 5.20. But it's also working in 5.19 now as
well. I think. So it's possible it was some side effect of steam doing
something in the background. Which maybe shouldn't happen but I don't know if
anything can be done about that.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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Gijs Vermeulen  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Gijs Vermeulen  ---
(In reply to Michael McGuire from comment #5)
> Seems to no longer be an issue in 5.20. But it's also working in 5.19 now as
> well. I think. So it's possible it was some side effect of steam doing
> something in the background. Which maybe shouldn't happen but I don't know
> if anything can be done about that.

Is this still the case with 6.0rc1? Because if so, I guess we can close this
bug.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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Michael McGuire  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Michael McGuire  ---
yeah, still good in 6.0-rc1. fine with me.

[Bug 50001] Epic Battle Fantasy 4 glitchy / crackly sound

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--- Comment #8 from Austin English  ---
Closing.

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Austin English  ---
Closing.