[Bug 28066] New: Sound stops after some time (restarting sound in game usually possible)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28066

Summary: Sound stops after some time (restarting sound in game
                    usually possible)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.26
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

In many games (SC2, Source engine games, Oblivion), the sound stops working
after while (completely random, sometimes couple of minutes, sometimes above
hour). It is usually possible to restart  the sound in game (going to options
menu in SC2, snd_restart in source engine console, starting new game in
Oblivion) but it's pretty annoying, if you have to do it every couple of
minutes.

I started observing this bug long time ago (probably about a year ago, nut
sure), so it's not result of current sound engine rewrite (and it doesn't fixed
this).

Currently using Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, PulseAudio.

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--- Comment #1 from Jan Kalab  2011-08-12 14:40:13 CDT ---
Oh, and when this happens during cutscenes in SC2, the lipsync stops to work,
or sometimes the whole cutscene stops, if it must be in sync with audio (but
the background effects, like rain, keeps running).

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--- Comment #2 from Vitaliy Margolen  2011-08-17 08:10:36 CDT ---
What sound driver is selected in winecfg?

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--- Comment #3 from Jan Kalab  2011-08-17 08:11:23 CDT ---
Alsa

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--- Comment #4 from Tudor Cirstea  2011-08-21 15:56:07 CDT ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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--- Comment #5 from MacNean  2011-09-05 17:05:10 CDT ---
Jan I responded to your crackling sound thing bug for SC2, I'll repost here
because it's same issue I believe:
> From what I understand 11.04 and below has a bug in the alsa-plugins/pulse

implementation.  It's supposedly fixed in 11.10.  I'm still on 10.10 cause I
refuse at this point to go to Unity.  (If unity gave me 2 bars (ie Gnome 2),
let me get rid of that launcher thing, had indicators for wicd/steam/other
things that don't show in Unity's bar for me, i'd upgrade).

Um I can't find the launchpad bug report, but I've been all over this because
of me refusing to upgrade, wine-pulse patches no longer working in 1.3.25+, and
the bug in alsa-plugins (alsa plugin to pulse)

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--- Comment #6 from Stuart Freeman  2011-10-02 13:51:38 CDT ---
This didn't happen to me when I was using the wine_esd driver, but since that's
no longer available I've switched to wine_alsa and am getting this bug
frequently. snd_restart usually gets the sound back for me on tf2, but crashes
l4d2.

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--- Comment #7 from Christian  2011-11-13 10:49:54 CST ---
Hi guys,

i can fully confirm that issue.
For me the sound works for a few seconds, or a min or two and then suddently
dies ingame.

Im using Wine 1.3.32 with Ubuntu 11.1064 bit. Im using Win7 compatibility mode.
I had some fixmes in the logs about the number of channels (32, 1000) can't be
handled, using 2 .

I'm using pulseaudio and the wine alsa backend.

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--- Comment #8 from Aaron H  2011-11-22 16:45:54 CST ---
I can CONFIRM this as well.

Running Oblivion (patched with official patches up to 1.2).
Wine 1.3.28
NVidia card (GeForce something or other... 512MB of VRAM)
An obscene amount of system RAM and a current AMD processor.

I looked in the output while running, I don't see any obvious culprits. The
sound worked fine during the intro (prison run), though when I stepped away
from the computer and game back, the sound cut out when I began the "sewers"
portion.

Out in the full world, when I first load the game, whether i'm in town or
outdoors, the sound works for about 2-5 minutes then cuts out. Dialog seems to
be a frequent trigger, though not the only one. Disabling bgMusic in
Oblivion.ini has *helped* but not *solved* the problem.

Performance seems to be inconsistent. Worked fine when I played it on my laptop
(512MB NVidia video card, Core 2 Duo Intel proc) last year.

Game plays fine, aside from the sound.

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--- Comment #9 from Nelson  2011-11-27 18:01:58 CST ---
I can confirm this as well. I had no issues with my previous wine setup
(compiled it myself wine 1.3.21 with rgl.patch). since i upgraded my system
from 11.04 to 11.10 I decided to install lastest wine 1.3.33. This is when my
sound problem began. When I run WOW Cataclysm, my sound often cuts out from the
get go, sometimes last 1 to 10 minutes. Other times half hour or if I'm lucky,
an entire duration of a 5man instance. Occasionally, it comes back when i tweak
ingame option Sound where I check/uncheck 'Use Hardware'. Most of the time
however i had to reboot game but with the same result.

Currently running 64bit Ubuntu 11.10, PulseAudio.

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--- Comment #10 from Nelson  2011-11-27 18:07:05 CST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> I can confirm this as well. I had no issues with my previous wine setup
> (compiled it myself wine 1.3.21 with rgl.patch). since i upgraded my system
> from 11.04 to 11.10 I decided to install lastest wine 1.3.33. This is when my
> sound problem began. When I run WOW Cataclysm, my sound often cuts out from the
> get go, sometimes last 1 to 10 minutes. Other times half hour or if I'm lucky,
> an entire duration of a 5man instance. Occasionally, it comes back when i tweak
> ingame option Sound where I check/uncheck 'Use Hardware'. Most of the time
> however i had to reboot game but with the same result.
>
> Currently running 64bit Ubuntu 11.10, PulseAudio.

Using a stock wine 1.3.33 (tried both WinXP and Win7 Compatibility mode)

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--- Comment #11 from Rob  2011-12-07 06:21:42 CST ---
hi I have a simular problem when playing eveonline using two sessions, both
with their own prefix

When I start the sessions both have audio, but after a while (could be
something between seconds and hours it's never the same) the audio stops, I
even have had one session cutting sound while the other continued to make noise
for a few hours until it also went mute.

After the sound goes mute in wine, all the other applications still have audio.

my os is opensuse 12.1 x86_64
wineversion is 1.3.34

I start my sessions with the following commands.

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="/path/to/prefix/1" wine explorer
/desktop=1,1280x996 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="/path/to/prefix/2" wine explorer
/desktop=0,1680x1050  "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"

Rob Verduijn

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--- Comment #12 from Rob  2011-12-07 06:24:29 CST ---
btw I use pulse

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--- Comment #13 from Kaczor  2011-12-10 10:34:11 CST ---
I can confim that with Ubuntu 11.10 on samsun X460 laptop - i386 install -
pulse audio (desktop XFCE) - nvidia.

Eve Online - one client playing in virtual desktop window on fullsecreen -
first I though it is when switching windows but no - it is random.

I can get the sound back by clicking "Echo test" in voice game menu.

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--- Comment #14 from Kaczor  2011-12-10 16:47:33 CST ---
Ok - it looks like this is bug of alsa pulseaudio plugin, looka at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/805940 I have taken
modified alsa pulseaudio plugin and I am now testing if the sound will be ok ..
will write in 2-3 days if everything will be ok - we will know what is the
problem

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--- Comment #15 from Kaczor  2011-12-12 09:03:27 CST ---
Its not ok nged the plugin but problem remains - I have cha - and I don't want
to downgrade wine to check that ... any1 has some luck??

PS. I have found other way to recreate the sound - If you install Pulseaudio
sound control you can kill the running input signal from wine's alsa-pulseaudio
plugin. It will recreate immediately and guest what ... sound returns ... till
it will die again in some time.

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--- Comment #16 from Dirk  2011-12-18 13:33:18 CST ---
I have this problem too. Recently I started again with the game Dungeon keeper
II and I could usually play for an hour or so before the sound broke. With the
last update (1.3.35) this changed to only 5 minutes. Also noteworthy: after the
last update I can usually play exactly 2 video's in the movies section, after
which the sound is broken. Sometimes the sound breaks while playing a movie,
but it is always broken after 2 movies. Even more annoying is the fact that
with broken sound, trying to play a movie breaks the whole game. My only option
is to kill wineserver. I did not test this before 1.3.35, so I cannot say how
it was then.
Another game that is affected is GTA:SA, here I could play for quite a while
before the sound broke, but now usually it already breaks in the menus... Here
the cut scenes do not work anymore, so I cannot finish missions.

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--- Comment #17 from Kaczor  2011-12-22 02:59:36 CST ---
I can confirm also that removing pulseaudio solved issue - I have sound in EVE,
mixing and all is working on pure ALSA. But this is a workaround.

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--- Comment #18 from Ema  2011-12-30 03:50:42 CST ---
Unfortunately removing PulseAudio is/should not be the 'real' solution...

Cheers

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--- Comment #19 from Rob  2011-12-30 07:08:35 CST ---
removing pulse audio becomes a bigger pain with every new release of any distro
that is using it.

It is getting more tightly integrated into most popular distros with every
release.

On suse I've already had a native linux app (mumble) crashing on me when I
turned off pulse audio (yes i did configure it again for alsa in stead of
pulse). This is very annoying since now i have to choose between playing eve
with sound and no mumble and eve with no sound and being able to communicate
with my fleet/corp during opps.

So I personally consider simply de-installing/disabling pulse a solution with a
lot of negative side effects which I prefer to avoid.

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--- Comment #20 from Christian  2012-01-08 04:26:03 CST ---
does this issues still happen for you guys with 1.3.36 ? Personally i had some
great success 2 days ago with wine 1.3.36+pulse but now i have bad sound again.
Trying to figure out what caused that issue today.

It would be fantastic if some of the bug reporters also could test if 1.3.36
already softens or solves the sound issues for them.

many thanks,
christian

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--- Comment #21 from Rob  2012-01-08 16:22:28 CST ---
Hi

I've been running eve online with two sessions for almost 12 hours now. (in afk
mode)
And both still have audio.
So either the bug takes real long now before it shows itself or it has been
fixed.

opensuse 12.1 x86_64 with pulse audio
wine 1.3.36 x86_64 running with env WINEARCH=win32 and each session in it's own
prefix

Rob

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--- Comment #22 from Dirk  2012-01-08 17:17:14 CST ---
I just tried, but for me it doesn't get better. Both in GTA and in Dungeon
keeper, the sound is now completely distorted. However, it doesn't break down
as fast as the last time I checked, but I didn't wait until it did, as it
sounded really bad. (See also my last report)

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--- Comment #23 from Rob  2012-01-10 06:39:10 CST ---
hmmm

It seems I was lucky with my last session with sound.

Today I played with the same setup as I mentioned before and sound crapped out
in one of my sessions in less than 5 minutes.

So audio still fails for me after a while, although it can be hours before it
happens as opposed to todays 5 minutes.

Rob

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--- Comment #24 from Aaron H  2012-01-10 08:24:49 CST ---
I was having (and still have) problems with this bug when playing Oblivion, but
the sound is less buggy in Skyrim. Getting the sound to work in the first place
was a challenge, but installing DirectX 10 and alternating between Windows XP
and Windows 7 emulation modes seemed to help. (That is: I'd set it for Win XP
emu mode, load the game, and if sound didn't work, I'd quit and re-load with
Win 7 emu selected. Neither one nor the other consistently performed better, so
I'm not sure what's at play there)

I have not tested Oblivion since installing DirectX 10 (installed via the
redist on the Skyrim disc), but will do that.

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--- Comment #25 from Brandon Howard  2012-01-18 09:35:54 CST ---
Perhaps this bug should be marked as a dupe of
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27895  Bug #27895

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--- Comment #26 from Jan Kalab  2012-01-18 09:42:00 CST ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> Perhaps this bug should be marked as a dupe of
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27895  Bug #27895

I disagree. The bug you mentioned results in crashing/frozen app. But this is
not happening with this bug. And, in this bug, the sound does not stop
immediately, it happens after random time.

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--- Comment #27 from Toby  2012-01-29 12:15:22 CST ---
I can comfirm this happening in PlayOnline/Final Fantasy XI on Ubuntu 11.10 and
10.04.  Sometimes happens in the transition from the Viewer to game proper and
vice versa, too.  Seems to be happening with the latest 2~3 Wine versions.

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--- Comment #28 from Thomas Strasser  2012-02-01 07:50:40 CST ---
I had the same problem and could solve it by installing libwine-oss and aoss.

I disable the ALSA-Sound and enable the OSS-Sound in winecfg.

This Hot-BugFix work for almost all wine-version - I had the same problem
several years ago (wine version 0.9x) and I solved it with the same solution.
Now I have wine-1.0.1.

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--- Comment #29 from Rob  2012-02-01 09:21:44 CST ---
I've heard this solution before (comment 18, scroll up to read it)
 and there has been a reaction on it as well. (comment 19) And my reaction
(comment 20) whichs explain why it is a non acceptable workaround.

Rob

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--- Comment #30 from Rob  2012-02-01 09:22:49 CST ---
oops ..should be comment 17 comment 18 and comment 19

Rob

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--- Comment #31 from Thomas Strasser  2012-02-01 09:45:15 CST ---
I didn't find the OSS-Solution in this Bug-View, so I thought it might be
useful for some people who wants a quick & maybe dirty solution.
By the way I have no pulseaudio installed and get the same problem. So it seems
to be some problem of alsa or the alsa-wine-part and not of pulseaudio.

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--- Comment #32 from [e-mail] 2012-02-17 08:20:02 CST ---
If you are interested in another workaround, try this fork of wine:
http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/multimedia.git

Sound doesn't stop with it.

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--- Comment #33 from [e-mail] 2012-02-22 16:11:11 CST ---
I had similar problems. Tried Wine 1.4-rc4 and so far sound and music plays ok.
Using Xubuntu 11.10 on Lenovo N500 laptop

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--- Comment #34 from Jerome Leclanche  2012-02-22 16:14:54 CST ---
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Fixed then?

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--- Comment #35 from Dirk  2012-02-22 16:26:45 CST ---
A short test showed no problems here too. This weekend I'll test for a longer
time to see if all problems are gone. The sounds are not garbled anymore, but
they still might break after an hour or more. I haven't tested that.

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Reported fixed

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Closing bugs fixed in 1.4-rc5.