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Re: [orca-list] Wine

Hi,
I have never had any problems with alsa and wine, only pulse. If you use alsa it should work great. It's one of the reasons I hate pulseaudio lol.
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On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 19:38 +0200, Christian wrote: 
Hi,
If I am going to use Alsa then with Wine, is that going to work?
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2011-06-02 at 13:18 Storm Dragon wrote:

>Hi,
>If you are using pulseaudio there is a lot of lag in the sound, about
>half a second I think. It really takes the fun out. There's a pulseaudio
>patch for Wine made by someone, but when I installed it you have to go
>set it to the pulse sound patch in the preferences which, of course, are
>not accessible. Judging by winetricks there should be some way to set
>the sound driver using terminal. I have read through the source code and
>can't find it though. This doesn't mean it's not there, that's quite a
>bit of code, and I may have over looked it. There are articles on my
>blog about getting Wine up and running. There are instructions for
>several games, and it would really be cool if people who install other
>games leave a step by step how-to for installing it in the comments.
>Thanks
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>On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 12:05 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The Winetricks script will allow you to install a number of Windows
>> components into Wine. DirectX 9.0C, Visual Basic 6, Visual C+ 2005
>> runtimes, Visual C+ 2008 runtimes,  .ET 2.0,  and various other things
>> like that. Its a pretty quick and easy way to get a lot of the
>> dpendencies you need for accessible games. About the only dependency
>> not in Winetricks is Sapi 5.1 which you can grab from the Kitchensinc
>> website and install.
>> 
>> On 6/2/11, Vojtch Polek <krecoun gmail com> wrote:
>> > Hello Tom,
>> > You mentioned kitchens inc games here, that they need only directx and
>> > sapi and then just install winkit.exe.
>> > Can be directx offeret by winetricks used with them? Thank you,
>> > Vojta
>> >
>> > On 1.6.2011 19:50, Thomas Ward wrote:
>> >> Hello Christian,
>> >>
>> >> Winetricks is an install script for Wine that helps people download
>> >> and install various Windows packages such as the Visual Basic 6
>> >> runtimes, DirectX 9.0C libraries, Visual C+ redistributible
>> >> libraries, etc. Since many apps need these dependencies  it is a quick
>> >> and dirty way to get everything you need for games and such in one
>> >> quick and easy installation. Your distribution probably has a
>> >> winetricks package and some Linux distros have winetricks as a part of
>> >> the standard Wine installation.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> As for DirectX you have to unpack the self-extracting file before
>> >> running dexsetup.exe with the /s switch. The file you download from
>> >> Microsoft is a self-extracting zip file and it will not accept the /s
>> >> switch. Only the dexsetup.exe file instide the package will do that if
>> >> I remember correctly.
>> >>
>> >> HTH
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 6/1/11, Christian <christian08 runbox com> wrote:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>> Many thanks for that info.
>> >>> The winetricks, what's that?
>> >>> So I just download the dxwebsetup.exe and run it with the /s option
>with
>> >>> wine, correct?
>> >>> Many thanks,
>> >>> Christian
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 2011-06-01 at 12:49 Thomas Ward wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Well, as an avid gamer and software developer I've had some really
>> >>>> mixed results using wine for games. Here is basically what I found
>> >>>> out.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> First, one thing I discovered is game performance goes way down when
>> >>>> emulated. For example, the game I'm developing, Mysteries of the
>> >>>> Ancients,  ran terrible under wine. This might be a pulse issue, I"m
>> >>>> not sure, but the audio cut in and out, and certain things like the
>> >>>> footstep sounds didn't play at all. Then, there was issues with
>> >>>> certain input devices like joysticks that didn't seem to work
>through
>> >>>> wine. It was for various issues like that why I'm now developing
>Linux
>> >>>> specific ports of all of my new games using LibSDL and FMOD Ex.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Second, issue was installing dependencies and the games as well. To
>> >>>> get a game up and running such as Jim Kitchens games you have to
>> >>>> install Sapi 5.1, which the installer doesn't talk, install DirectX
>8
>> >>>> via winetricks, and then run  his Winkit setup to finish adding VB
>> >>>> dependancies etc. Then, if you want a game like Shades of Doom or
>GMA
>> >>>> Tank Commander you pretty much have to do alt+n through all the
>> >>>> dialogs to get through the setups. Its doable but less than ideal.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> That said there are sometimes work arounds for some of these issues.
>> >>>> One thing is some apps such as DirectX can be installed using a
>silent
>> >>>> install. If you pass the dexsetup.exe the /s switch it will install
>> >>>> the entire thing without prompting you.If I'm not mistaken the same
>> >>>> can be done for the Sapi 5.1 install as well. This makes it easier
>to
>> >>>> install dependencies as the /s silent install setup will just
>install
>> >>>> the program using the defaults.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> HTH
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