StarCraft II Forum

Hello,

I am getting static in sound in cut scenes in SC2 and sometimes in the music in the menus. I saw a post on the tips and tricks to change the bottle to use Emulated sound. But when I select the Audio tab in the winecfg it only has options for setting the input/output devices. Any pro tips would be great.

When running StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty you may find that sound cuts in and out or is lost all together. If sound is lost it usually comes back (for a short time) if you return to the Sound Options menu. The permanent fix is to edit the sound settings in the bottle's wine configuration. Set the sound from Hardware accelerated to "Emulated."

--Dave

In cases such as this one usually should give more details about his computer and operating system (distro, version number, 32bit/64bit variant). The output of either ~/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag or /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag would also be useful. (enclose it in [code][/code] tags)

Your post is a bit confusing, did you manage to fix it or just failed to put the [quote][/quote] tags around a paragraph of text?

Are you using pulseaudio?

If so:
try editing the "/etc/pulse/default.pa" file
and change the line "load-module module-udev-detect"
to "load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0"

You'll probably have to restart pulse, pulseaudio -k as the user should do it. Or restart X.

Hello,

I am running a System 76 Bonobo Extreme v8. Ubuntu uses both Pulse and ALSA, but it seems to be running the ALSA driver for sound in wine.

Ubuntu 14.04
Nvidia 880m w/8GB video ram and 1536 cuda cores
16 GB Ram
500 GB SSD w/ 400 GB free

uname -a
Linux 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxdiag
[MissingLibCapi20]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libcapi20.so.3 library"
"Description"="Provides support for some ISDN cards. Very few applications need this."

[MissingLibHal]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libhal.so.1 library"
"Description"="This may be needed for Windows applications to automatically detect CD-ROM and USB key insertion."

[MissingLibTiff]
"Level"="Suggest"
"Title"="Missing 32bit libtiff.so.4 library"
"Description"="This is needed by some applications that need to manipulate TIFF images in their user interface."

[Properties]
"display.depth"="24"

[Properties]
"opengl.vendor"="NVIDIA Corporation"

[Properties]
"opengl.version"="4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.38"

[Properties]
"opengl.renderer"="GeForce GTX 880M/PCIe/SSE2"

Could you please check whether the package libasound2-plugins:i386 is installed on your system? If it's not, grab it check SC2 sound again...

It was already installed...

sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libasound2-plugins:i386 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.

:/ bummer

I guess you should file a ticket then. For what it's worth, I've had my share of sound issues with more recent distros (Ubuntu 13.10 and up) but they seemed to have been fixed in 14.04... haven't tested thoroughly yet. This is partly the reason why I still use 12.04 and only evaluating 14.04

Cool, thanks for your help. Have a good one!

You could try the tsched=0, it disables timer based scheduling in pulse. Newer pulse versions and maybe specific sound cards have this problem. If you google it you'll see it effects a lot of things, including wine apps. I had the same crackling/distrortion in SC2 (and a few other games) and that fixed it for me. The pulseaudio wiki also suggests possible intel's iommu may cause it as well. I'm on cxoffice 13.1.3 kernel 3.14.3 and pulseaudio 5.0, and can confirm it's still a problem with SC2 when i remove the tsched=0 (just tried it).

No luck, still getting the crackling.

lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)

One last trick you could try is to add the following line at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel model=generic

Reboot your system for the changes to take effect. Hopefully it works...

No luck. Still getting the static/choppy sound. I am in day two of having a ticket open, but it has not been assigned to anyone yet.

Silviu Cojocaru wrote:

One last trick you could try is to add the following line at the end
of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel model=generic

> Reboot your system for the changes to take effect. Hopefully it
> works...

So it worked after I selected the new Intel audio device in the Bottle. :D Thanks for the help!