Sound Acceleration Error

[Snake450]

Anyone having Sound Acceleration problems when playing F.E.A.R. 2? I've checked dxdiagn in wine, it says my sound card does not support hardware buffering, Anyone know why I'm getting this error?

[Thunderbird]

Ignore dxdiag. In short the audio code in Wine has a lot of issues for a part due to Wine bugs and for a bigger due to broken Linux drivers and sound systems. Even if your sound card supports hardware mixing (only few cards like Creative ones do that these days), you wouldn't be able to use it because most likely your Linux distribution uses pulse audio. Really ignore this, sound is very complicated and still a big mess on Linux.

[Eric S. Johansson]

Thunderbird wrote:

Ignore dxdiag. In short the audio code in Wine has a lot of issues for a part
due to Wine bugs and for a bigger due to broken Linux drivers and sound
systems. Even if your sound card supports hardware mixing (only few cards
like Creative ones do that these days), you wouldn't be able to use it
because most likely your Linux distribution uses pulse audio. Really ignore
this, sound is very complicated and still a big mess on Linux.

this goes double for us speech recognition users. at the rate linux audio is
progressing, I'm looking at the ugly future of using windows with speech
recognition as a platform for Linux development for the rest of my IT life

[Snake450]

So there is no way of getting it to work on Ubuntu? In AppDB its saying that sound works and its only on this game F.E.A.R. 2 that I get that error.

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Snake450<[email protected]> wrote:

So there is no way of getting it to work on Ubuntu? In AppDB its saying that sound works and its only on this game F.E.A.R. 2 that I get that error.

If you have pulseaudio installed. Remove that and try again.

[Snake450]

I have removed it, its the first thing I do when installing Ubuntu. lol