No sound in WoW/Wine, exhausted all googled advise

[montag451]

World of Warcraft is running without sound on Wine 0.9.6. I've gone through a lot of published advice but can't find a solution.

I'm relatively new to Linux, but I've managed to find a lot of information on my problem, yet none of it has fixed it. I'm currently trying to run World of Warcraft 1.12.1 on Wine 0.9.6 according to the following guide: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=120615

I'm currently running Dapper on a laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobility x1600.

After installing WoW and Wine, I found I was having some graphical problems, so I fixed these by updating fglrx and using the DisabledExtentions key in regedit. WoW still had no sound, so I attempted adding the following to Config.wtf:

SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "70"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET MusicVolume "0.5"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET gxApi "opengl"

These were all things mentioned to hopefully fix sound issues. So far it hasn't worked. I've also tried different values for SoundOutputSystem according to this guide: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606&iTestingId=7183

Those values were -1 (autodetect), 1 (normal), 4 (OSS) and 6 (ALSA). I also tried 0 2 just for kicks. None of these worked.

I thought it might be a Wine problem, so I ran winecfg. Clicking on the Audio tab gave me an error that I couldn't find a fix to, but I was told by a friend that it probably wasn't the source of the problem anyway.

All the research I've done on sound problems in WoW with Wine points to editing Config.wtf, so I can't find anything else to go on. If anyone has any insight, it would be greatly appreciated.

[p3d4l]

I had a problem with sound when I was running enemy territory, what I did to resolve the problem was turn ESD off. Go to System, Preferences, Sound, Then the second tab (Sound) and turn ESD off.
Hope this works for you.

[Ferrat]

World of Warcraft is running without sound on Wine 0.9.6. I've gone through a lot of published advice but can't find a solution.

I'm relatively new to Linux, but I've managed to find a lot of information on my problem, yet none of it has fixed it. I'm currently trying to run World of Warcraft 1.12.1 on Wine 0.9.6 according to the following guide: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=120615

I'm currently running Dapper on a laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobility x1600.

After installing WoW and Wine, I found I was having some graphical problems, so I fixed these by updating fglrx and using the DisabledExtentions key in regedit. WoW still had no sound, so I attempted adding the following to Config.wtf:

SET SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET SoundBufferSize "70"
SET ffxDeath "0"
SET MusicVolume "0.5"
SET SoundVolume "1"
SET MasterVolume "1"
SET gxApi "opengl"

These were all things mentioned to hopefully fix sound issues. So far it hasn't worked. I've also tried different values for SoundOutputSystem according to this guide: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606&iTestingId=7183

Those values were -1 (autodetect), 1 (normal), 4 (OSS) and 6 (ALSA). I also tried 0 2 just for kicks. None of these worked.

I thought it might be a Wine problem, so I ran winecfg. Clicking on the Audio tab gave me an error that I couldn't find a fix to, but I was told by a friend that it probably wasn't the source of the problem anyway.

All the research I've done on sound problems in WoW with Wine points to editing Config.wtf, so I can't find anything else to go on. If anyone has any insight, it would be greatly appreciated.

tried running with wine 0.9.24 or 0.9.25?

[simplyw00x]

Clicking on the Audio tab gave me an error that I couldn't find a fix to, but I was told by a friend that it probably wasn't the source of the problem anyway.
It probably is. Please post the error.

[montag451]

To note, I did try killall esd, and that didn't fix the problem.

However, I found the source of the problem. It was not the Audio tab, as I had thought. I've found that WoW only plays sound when SoundOutputSystem is set to 1. It will not play sound at all, however, when I have Quod Libet running at the same time. It also does this with VLC, but those are the only two pieces of software I've tried. Not a huge problem, it just means I can't play music while running WoW.

If I can figure out a way to get WoW to play sound without taking over ALSA, I'll post it.

Edit: I did try 9.25. Unfortunately, I got an error saying wine could not get 3D acceleration to work, so I reverted to 9.6. I'm considering trying 9.24 with patches, since most people seem to have success with it.

[jammersplace]

ok this is what i did just to let you know to start i copied my wow folder from my external after i formatted and went with linux so... auto started with direct3d fixed that -opengl runs smoother i do have the nvidia card so.. but for sound i checked all the sound options i could think of alsa oss jack nas esound all that hardware emulation driver emulation still nothing then i went to application and ran it as it was in xp and the sound started so don't quote me but basically messed with it till it worked.

[Sef]

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