WoW crashes my microphone.

theShaggy · Post by **theShaggy** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:49 pm

Hey folks,

Running TeamSpeak while playing WoW, I'm having trouble keeping my microphone going for any length of time. It will work fine for a while, but then suddenly stop working altogether until I force-reload ALSA. The microphone is no longer listed as being available.

As far as I can tell, this only happens with games in Wine, but I've only really tested it with WoW.

Any idea what this problem could be? It normally seems to happen when passing through high-density zones in-game, but isn't always consistent.

Is there any way I can disable audio input for this wine prefix altogether?

theShaggy · Post by **theShaggy** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:04 pm

Somebody posted a reply at some "Spinics" site, which seems to be aggregating all the threads from here. Since it's not here and I can't reply there, I'm going to answer.

I'm running TeamSpeak 3 for Linux, but it isn't just TeamSpeak. Skype will also break, and the microphone is completely shut off until I reload Alsa.

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, and I removed PulseAudio since PA gives me too many problems.

theShaggy · Post by **theShaggy** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:40 am

To everyone responding to me at Spinics: I appreciate your help, but can you please come over here to the winehq.org forums and answer me? I am not able to reply at whatever site it is that you're getting this from, and it seems a bit rude to the Winehq mods to have a one-sided conversation on the forum (not to mention that I have to do a Google search to find out if anyone replied).

You're the only ones on any of the forums I've posted in who have tried to help, so I'd really be happy if we could still talk.

To answer the most recent question: not a USB headset. I have headphones with a microphone plugged in to the normal audio out/mic in jacks at the back of my computer. I have a Realtek ALC880 on-board sound card that comes with HD audio, so I've got a 4.1 sound system plugged into the surround jacks.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:59 am

To everyone responding to me at Spinics: I appreciate your help, but can you please come over here to the winehq.org forums and answer me? I am not able to reply at whatever site it is that you're getting this from, and it seems a bit rude to the Winehq mods to have a one-sided conversation on the forum (not to mention that I have to do a Google search to find out if anyone replied).

The replies that are not appearing here are coming in from the mailing list. There appears to be a problem with the link between the list and the forum--the missing replies are in the mailing list archives. There also appear to be other threads affected. I've emailed wine-devel about it.

theShaggy · Post by **theShaggy** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:34 pm

Okay, good. I was worried that I was being rude and all. Thanks to all the list for following up with me, I hope we can figure this out.

Jim Hall · Post by **Jim Hall** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:55 pm

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:34 PM, theShaggy <[email protected]> wrote:

Okay, good. I was worried that I was being rude and all. Thanks to all
the list for following up with me, I hope we can figure this out.

I'll give you the same info I gave my guild about voice. The safest way to

hear the game at the same time you're on voice is with a USB headset because
most sound cards don't deal with two or more outputs out of the box. Get a
cheap or borrowed USB headset and try it, then let us know what happened.
And, please, don't plug the headset in until after the comp boots all the
way.

Jim
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