[Bug]: Staticky sound with Steam games (Half Life, Oblivion, Skyrim) #637

Howlinmoon · 2023-11-22T14:53:27Z

Description

Hi,
I have been attempting to play Half Life via Whisky after getting to successfully download from my Steam account.
The game seems to be running fine - except for one major issue, the sound is staticky / choppy.
This is using a Mac Mini M2 Pro with 32GB of RAM and Whisky version 2.1.3 (brew installed)
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to fix the static. I see there are various settings in the bottle configuration, but I didn't want to make things worse by mucking with them.

It seems to be with all Steam games - since I also tried installing Oblivion and Skyrim - both which appeared to run fine - except for the staticky audio issue.

I have tried the idea of a Windows 7 based bottle, but that gives me the same results, with the warning that steam support for Windows 7 ends in 40 days - i.e. 1/1/2025 - so that would have only been a very short term solution at best.

thanks for any suggestions on how to address this.

Steps to reproduce

Fresh install of Whisky via brew on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.1

brew install --cask whisky

Download the windows Steam installer

Creat a Windows 10 Whisky bottle

Click "Run"

Select the windows Steam installer

Once Steam has been installed and is running, select Half Life and download it.

When Half Life is finished downloading - try running it - the sound issue should be heard almost immediately.

Expected behaviour

Ideally, sound w/out static

Logs

If I knew how to get the requested logs, I would/will provide them.

What version of Whisky are you using?

<2.2.0

What version of macOS are you using?

Sonoma (macOS 14)

Issue Language

Yes my issue is written in English

nicolinuxfr · 2023-11-22T16:29:04Z

Same issue for me with Half-Life. It's a Whisky 2.2 regression it seems, it was fine with the previous version. I will downgrade the app for now.

EDIT : unfortunately, the bug seems to remain on 2.1.3… 😢

Howlinmoon · 2023-11-22T17:04:02Z

Same issue for me with Half-Life. It's a Whisky 2.2 regression it seems, it was fine with the previous version. I will downgrade the app for now.

EDIT : unfortunately, the bug seems to remain on 2.1.3… 😢

Sorry you downgraded to 2.1.3 - that was the version I was reporting it on.
I removed the reference to 2.2 if that was confusing.
I was referring to the version selector when posting the bug.
I am glad to see I'm not the only one seeing (hearing actually) this issue.

cgarst · 2023-11-22T17:21:03Z

Might be a duplicate #445 - seems like a broader issue with some older games

nicolinuxfr · 2023-11-23T08:46:48Z

Sorry you downgraded to 2.1.3 - that was the version I was reporting it on.

No problem, so I tried 2.1.2 and even 2.1.1 and it is not better. I'm not sure if it's Whisky's fault then, since the game has been updated a couple times since I last tried it (monday evening).

Might be a duplicate #445 - seems like a broader issue with some older games

It was working perfectly fine at the beginning of this week, so I'm not sure.

thekamilpro · 2023-11-25T11:07:49Z

Could this be also related to HOMM3 - the game runs, but sound is clunky? #252

sashok1337 · 2023-11-25T11:52:31Z

I ran into the same problem in Worms Armageddon (via Steam). Whisky 2.2.0, MBP M2 Max

EmilianoTalamo · 2023-11-25T17:52:13Z

Most sound issues from old games are fixed by installing dsound and flagging it as native.

Howlinmoon · 2023-11-25T19:47:50Z

Most sound issues from old games are fixed by installing dsound and flagging it as native.

OK - I did some googling and I failed to find anything useful when searching for "macos whisky dsound"
Just what is dsound and where do I get it so I can try your solution?
A google search on "macos dsound" just resulted in this: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/d-sound-pro-35-beta and I suspect this is not the dsound you're referring to :-)

EmilianoTalamo · 2023-11-25T19:58:44Z

where do I get it so I can try your solution?

It's available on winetricks. Then you override it with Winecfg.

For future reference, you install Windows libraries and dlls within Wine, not through your OS.

thekamilpro · 2023-11-25T21:40:02Z

where do I get it so I can try your solution?

It's available on winetricks. Then you override it with Winecfg.

For future reference, you install Windows libraries and dlls within Wine, not through your OS.

Thank you it just worked for HOMM3!

Howlinmoon · 2023-11-26T04:48:17Z

where do I get it so I can try your solution?

It's available on winetricks. Then you override it with Winecfg.

For future reference, you install Windows libraries and dlls within Wine, not through your OS.

Worked perfectly!

glenmeredith68 · 2023-11-29T03:04:02Z

Downloaded whiskey today to play half-life too!

Winetricks tells me 'wine server not found!' when I run the command 'winetricks dsound' in the terminal.

@Howlinmoon or @thekamilpro can you describe to me how you carried out the line

"It's available on winetricks. Then you override it with Winecfg.'
?

Seems like I'm missing something here.

Stooovie · 2023-11-30T22:24:04Z

I tried adding the dsound winetrick via Whiskey GUI but only got this:

/Users/stooovie/.zprofile:9: no such file or directory: /usr/local/bin/brew
PATH="/Users/stooovie/Library/Application Support/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Libraries/Wine/bin:$PATH" WINE=wine64 WINEPREFIX="/Users/stooovie/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Bottles/D39DBA7E-3F15-48B0-9642-C4EB1D094127" "/Users/stooovie/Library/Application Support/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Libraries/winetricks" dsound
stooovie@JiriMacBook ~ % PATH="/Users/stooovie/Library/Application Support/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Libraries/Wine/bin:$PATH" WINE=wine64 WINEPREFIX="/Users/stooovie/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Bottles/D39DBA7E-3F15-48B0-9642-C4EB1D094127" "/Users/stooovie/Library/Application Support/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Libraries/winetricks" dsound
warning: taskset/cpuset not available on your platform!
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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WINEPREFIX INFO:
Drive C: .
..
.DS_Store
Program Files
Program Files (x86)
ProgramData
users
windows

Registry info:
/Users/stooovie/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Bottles/D39DBA7E-3F15-48B0-9642-C4EB1D094127/system.reg:#arch=win64
/Users/stooovie/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Bottles/D39DBA7E-3F15-48B0-9642-C4EB1D094127/user.reg:#arch=win64
/Users/stooovie/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky/Bottles/D39DBA7E-3F15-48B0-9642-C4EB1D094127/userdef.reg:#arch=win64
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warning: wine64 cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message ""

mrkody · 2023-12-09T15:05:10Z

File > Kill All Bottles helped solve it

sashok1337 · 2023-12-10T11:59:20Z

I finally managed to play Worms Armageddon with normal sound!
Huge thanks to everyone in this thread, but I want to point out that this is very difficult to do without detailed instructions!
(like @glenmeredith68 mentioned)

So here are the steps you need to take to get it working:

In your terminal run brew install cabextract
Open Whisky
Run File > Kill All Bottles (at the top left of your screen)
At the bottom of the Whisky window you will find the Winetricks... button, click it
Go to DLLs tab, find dsound, choose it and press RUN
Run the game!

dima-glukhov · 2023-12-10T14:05:56Z

I finally managed to play Worms Armageddon with normal sound! Huge thanks to everyone in this thread, but I want to point out that this is very difficult to do without detailed instructions! (like @glenmeredith68 mentioned)

So here are the steps you need to take to get it working:

In your terminal run brew install cabextract

Open Whisky

Run File > Kill All Bottles (at the top left of your screen)

At the bottom of the Whisky window you will find the Winetricks... button, click it

Go to DLLs tab, find dsound, choose it and press RUN

Run the game!

в skyrim на заставке звук есть, а в самой игре нет((

Skyrim has sound on the splash screen, but not in the game itself((

Notacod3r · 2024-01-01T15:16:40Z

I still get the staticky sound even with dsound. Someone mentioned to flag it as native and override it with Winecfg, how do I do that?

Ok, I flagged it as Native, Bulletin but the issue still persists.

phamthohongduong · 2024-01-25T02:17:40Z

I finally managed to play Worms Armageddon with normal sound! Huge thanks to everyone in this thread, but I want to point out that this is very difficult to do without detailed instructions! (like @glenmeredith68 mentioned)
So here are the steps you need to take to get it working:

In your terminal run brew install cabextract

Open Whisky

Run File > Kill All Bottles (at the top left of your screen)

At the bottom of the Whisky window you will find the Winetricks... button, click it

Go to DLLs tab, find dsound, choose it and press RUN

Run the game!

в skyrim на заставке звук есть, а в самой игре нет((

Skyrim has sound on the splash screen, but not in the game itself((

I tried this method in Heroic Launcher, now the game is just stuck at black screen on launch... :(

cffranco26 · 2024-07-15T17:37:28Z

Most sound issues from old games are fixed by installing dsound and flagging it as native.

this solution work for me with NFSMW 2005

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[Bug]: Staticky sound with Steam games (Half Life, Oblivion, Skyrim) #637

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