Wine, Pulseaudio, Hardy, and Simpsons Hit And Run!

[hotstovejer]

Holiday greetings to all my friends here in Open Source Land!

I have a quandry that I need to get resolved.

My children have given me permission to get rid of Windows on the one remaining pc with it on there. I have 3 little ones (and one big one that just won't leave, but that's another story.)

I got the 2 older kids digging Linux enough, and are sick enough of Windows to let me blow that partition away.

However...

My little one is the gamer in the house. I need to make sure that his games work on Linux. He plays lots of stuff (Pirates of the Carribiean Online, which there is a fix for..., Need for speed, etc), but he loves my old Simpsons Hit and Run game. So do I, so that's why I have been trying to get it to work on my machine (Since when did MY machine become the test machine!?!?!)

The game plays awesome, graphic wise. But, the sound is for crap. No dialogue, intermitten sounds from the game, just lots of hissing and popping.

Now, the dialogue in that game is great. It's part of the experience!

I've heard that it's PulseAudio's fault. Things not playing nice together. I've been thru how to uninstall PA, but it wants to get rid of ubuntu-desktop also.

So, the question is Do I get rid of PA, disable it, or find some workaround. I want to be Windowsless by the end of the year!

Thanks, all!

Jeremy

[idodos]

you don't have to remove pulse.
just go to the wine configuration utility and set wine to use the OSS sound driver.
then start the game with this command:

padsp wine "game exe"

well i'm quite new to linux myself but i hope this will help you.

[hotstovejer]

Tried that, and got this!

fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 2d1400 (device=2d access=0 func=500 method=0)
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x54cc9f (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x0054cc9f).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:0054cc9f ESP:0032f52c EBP:00000000 EFLAGS:00010246( - 00 -RIZP1)
EAX:00000000 EBX:0032f598 ECX:01c8faf8 EDX:001492c0
ESI:01c8faf8 EDI:0032f578
Stack dump:
0x0032f52c: 01c8fabc 01c8faf8 005f6900 01030000
0x0032f53c: 00000000 00010001 00005dc0 0000bb80
0x0032f54c: 00100002 00040012 00000024 000100e8
0x0032f55c: 00046800 00000000 0032f540 00000000
0x0032f56c: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0054d353
0x0032f57c: 005f6900 0032f598 01c8fabc 01c8fa78
Backtrace:
0x0054cc9f: movl 0x0(%eax),%edx
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (87 modules)
PE 330000- 347000 Deferred cmdlineext03
PE 400000- 7cf000 Export simpsons
PE 10000000-1006c000 Deferred pddidx8r
PE 30000000-30072000 Deferred binkw32
ELF 7b800000-7b92d000 Deferred kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b820000-7b92d000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bca4000 Deferred ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bca4000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7e112000-7e15c000 Deferred dsound<elf>
\-PE 7e120000-7e15c000 \ dsound
ELF 7e3af000-7e3e2000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7e3c0000-7e3e2000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7e3e2000-7e484000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7e3f0000-7e484000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7e484000-7e543000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7e490000-7e543000 \ comctl32
ELF 7e543000-7e59c000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7e550000-7e59c000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7e59c000-7e6af000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7e5b0000-7e6af000 \ shell32
ELF 7e6af000-7e6d5000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7e6c0000-7e6d5000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e6d5000-7e6ec000 Deferred msacm32<elf>
\-PE 7e6e0000-7e6ec000 \ msacm32
ELF 7e714000-7e71d000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e71d000-7e722000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e722000-7e725000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e725000-7e72b000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e72b000-7e733000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e733000-7e736000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e736000-7e756000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7e740000-7e756000 \ imm32
ELF 7e756000-7e764000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e764000-7e769000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e769000-7e77d000 Deferred midimap<elf>
\-PE 7e770000-7e77d000 \ midimap
ELF 7e77d000-7e814000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e790000-7e814000 \ winex11
ELF 7e85e000-7e87f000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e87f000-7e8a9000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e8a9000-7e8be000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e8be000-7e92b000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e93f000-7e958000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7e940000-7e958000 \ version
ELF 7e958000-7e96b000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF 7e96b000-7e97f000 Deferred lz32<elf>
\-PE 7e970000-7e97f000 \ lz32
ELF 7e97f000-7e99d000 Deferred iphlpapi<elf>
\-PE 7e990000-7e99d000 \ iphlpapi
ELF 7e99d000-7e9fe000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e9b0000-7e9fe000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e9fe000-7eaa2000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7ea10000-7eaa2000 \ ole32
ELF 7eaa2000-7eb34000 Deferred winmm<elf>
\-PE 7eab0000-7eb34000 \ winmm
ELF 7eb34000-7ec37000 Deferred wined3d<elf>
\-PE 7eb50000-7ec37000 \ wined3d
ELF 7ec37000-7ec62000 Deferred d3d8<elf>
\-PE 7ec40000-7ec62000 \ d3d8
ELF 7ec62000-7ecb4000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec70000-7ecb4000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ecb4000-7ed4f000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ecc0000-7ed4f000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ed4f000-7ee96000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7ed70000-7ee96000 \ user32
ELF 7efb6000-7efc1000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7efc1000-7efcb000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7efcb000-7efe3000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efe3000-7efec000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF b7b35000-b7b3a000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF b7b3a000-b7b3d000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF b7b3d000-b7b55000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF b7b56000-b7b58000 Deferred libxcb-xlib.so.0
ELF b7b58000-b7c3f000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF b7c3f000-b7c57000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF b7c57000-b7c5f000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF b7c5f000-b7c84000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF b7c85000-b7c89000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b7c89000-b7c92000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF b7c92000-b7c96000 Deferred libcap.so.1
ELF b7c96000-b7ce4000 Deferred libpulse.so.0
ELF b7ce4000-b7e33000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF b7e33000-b7e4b000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b7e60000-b7f96000 Deferred libwine.so.1
ELF b7f96000-b7fa0000 Deferred libpulsedsp.so
ELF b7fa2000-b7fbe000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\Vivendi Universal Games\The Simpsons Hit & Run\Simpsons.exe
00000019 15
00000018 0
00000009 0 <==
0000000c
00000013 0
00000012 0
0000000e 0
0000000d 0
0000000f
00000015 0
00000014 0
00000011 0
00000010 0
00000016
00000017 0
Backtrace:


I even tried just launching the game again, and no go!

What happened?

Thanks!

Jeremy

[hotstovejer]

Anyone? I was thinking that over the weekend, maybe I should try installing it with sudo? It runs just great, but there is something horribly wrong with the sound. I even went to the measure of installing 7.10 (cause it doesn't have pulseaudio) and trying it that way! Nothing!

Anyone with some ideas, it would be great. Thanks!

Jeremy

[KaiZ51]

Well, I have something for you that I'm pretty sure that will work. So, first of all, change the Wine audio settings back to ALSA. Then, save it, and close winecfg. Now, open a terminal and write "killall pulseaudio" in it without the quotes. The game should be now working :)

[PeteyMcPetenPete]

Hi guys, well I have the solution that should get this game working flawlessly! It seems to be a bug to do with Wine's DirectX Audio DLL.It works perfectly for me, and hopefully you too! :)

I have to warn you that this guide can be intrusive to your current wine setup, PROCEED WITH CAUTION! This guide has not broken any other program installed in wine on my end, but it doesn't mean it won't with you!


Download DirectX files from here (http://zdnana.bay.livefilestore.com/y1py_esrdkCcMWP1E00fSDyMA0s2QW_YXQNJ2PNfoW3UNc3JSf Xf9VPMDOBE33V8QVjpS9KMiuLwiLP_fqrJkg1zgHQzHUNakUm/directx.tar.gz?download)
Save it to the root of your home folder
Right click it and choose Extract Here
Load up the terminal
Type in "cd directx" without quotes
Copy and paste the following without quotes, replacing USERNAME with your home folder name "gksu cp *.* /home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32"
Type in "winecfg"
Click "Add Application"
Navigate to the simpsons hit and run EXE (Simpsons.exe) and select it
Change Windows Version to Windows XP
Select the Libraries tab and create a new entry for "dsound". Edit the new entry to be "Native"
Select the Audio Tab and choose ALSA and OSS, with Sample rate set to "48000"
Finally, check the graphics tab to confirm that shader support is Hardware with Pixel shader ticked
Press Apply then OK and Good luck saving springfield from Aliens!

[sherl0k]

sudo aptitude purge pulseaudio

pulse does three things:

1. per-application volume levels
2. network streaming
3. breaking tons of apps that want to use alsa (wine in particular)

the third it does extremely well.

if you can live without the first two, removing pulse is the way to go.