This is my first post here so Welcome everyone .
Few days ago I compiled wine 1.1.8 on my gentoo box and I successfully installed Lord Of the Rings On line. The game is running surprisingly good for me but I run into minor but pretty irritating problem, every time I lunch or stop the game my pcm channels from first sound card device are being muted. I'm using oss driver. On alsa driver sound is playing correctly (no pcm muting on start/stop) but only for a few minutes then crashes (this issue is reported on appDB). Turning on sound every time i'm lunching or stoping the game is bit annoying. I read the faq, wiki, docs but didn't found anything related to my problem. Is it some kind of known issue. Is it a simple way to solve this problem on the wine side?
I have sound blaster audigy 4 pro as main sound card. Any suggestions greatly apprenticed.
The bug is realated to alsa I know about this bug therefore I'm using oss, the problem is muting my pcm controls during startup and shut-down of the game. Sound is ok but i have to use a mixer control just after starting the game and just after stoping it because sound is being muted idk why.
Edit.
I just checked the other game same problem just after starting the game sound (pcm control) is being set to 0. It must be related to oss driver settings.
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