Wine Sound Lag while playing Red Alert 3 Uprising

sorry if this is in the wrong place. i am a noob here in ubuntu forums.

I have installed Red Alert 3 Uprising using wine. It launches perfectly but the sound has this annoying delay and choppiness that you can't understand the dialogue and the sound effects. I have tried using wine1.3 with wine1.3 there is no sound at all. so i downgraded again to wine1.2. i have tried all the audio options in winecfg and found that only alsa and esound works with the same results regardless if full or emulation. now i am stuck at a dead end. also the choppiness in sound causes some lag in the game itself coz when i disable the sound it runs smoothly without any delays. with other games such Warcraft 3, StarCraft 2, CoD4MW and CoD4MW2 i have no problems with the sound. the choppiness only happens with this game. any suggestions? please help.

here are my system specs:

Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 250 3.0Ghz
Memory: 4GB DDR3 1333
Swap Space 4GB
Motherboard: ECS MCP61M-M3
Graphics: Nvidia 9500GT 1GB 128Bit
Operating System: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
Kernel: 2.6.39-02063903-generic
Wine Version: 1.2.3

I have been an ubuntu user since ubuntu 9.04 and i am happy with ubuntu 10.10 for the time being

Thread moved to the "Wine" forum.

sorry. first time poster. hehehe thanks for moving.

The sound system was completely rewritten for Wine 1.3.26.

In older versions of Wine, you may try adding "padsp" at the beginning of the line calling the game, e.g.:

Code:

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padsp wine /home/fred/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BubbaGames/bubba.exe

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You will need to have the pulseaudio utilities installed for this to work.

In 1.3.26, you may have some luck trying the following. First, type the following in a terminal:

Code:

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winecfg

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Then, choose the "Audio" tab. Make sure that "ALSA Driver" is checked, and under "Hardware Acceleration" choose "Emulation."

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Originally Posted by thatguruguy

The sound system was completely rewritten for Wine 1.3.26.

In older versions of Wine, you may try adding "padsp" at the beginning of the line calling the game, e.g.:

Code:

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padsp wine /home/fred/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BubbaGames/bubba.exe

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You will need to have the pulseaudio utilities installed for this to work.

In 1.3.26, you may have some luck trying the following. First, type the following in a terminal:

Code:

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winecfg

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Then, choose the "Audio" tab. Make sure that "ALSA Driver" is checked, and under "Hardware Acceleration" choose "Emulation."

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I have tried these 2 already but it is still the same. the sound is really laggy and it slows down. i am back with 1.2 again. emulation and full both output the same sound. any more suggestions? other games here seem not to have the issue. only happens in ra3 and i have already tried to reinstall the game. =(

edit:
oh wait, how do i install pulse audio? i seem to have missed that.

*bump* anyone? :(

i've tried the pulse using padsp and have also tried aoss but still the sound is jittery. i have also tried removing wine completely and reinstalling it for a fresh start but still the sound is jittery.

any more suggestions???