I'm running osx and in the steam client i don't hear any sounds when i get any messages or notices. Is this a know problem?
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I'm running osx and in the steam client i don't hear any sounds when i get any messages or notices. Is this a know problem?
That is probably a symptom of known limitations.
There are two components to the limitation. First, the Wine Core Audio driver is a Windows wave-out driver; it doesn't currently support DirectSound natively. Second, Wine doesn't support opening a wave-out device more than once at a time, although Windows generally does.
Steam has already opened the wave-out device for some purpose; I don't know what. Then, it tries to do DirectSound output for other purposes. But DirectSound is emulated through the wave-out device. So, Wine tries to open the wave-out device a second time, which fails.
Unfortunately, there's nothing you the end user can do about it. We just have to fix one or both of those facts about Wine.
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