<div dir="ltr">All the mentioned games run natively, with the exception being Dungeons & Dragons Online (which runs fine with ALSA). This is certainly not a Wine bug. I want you to understand that "killall -9 pulseaudio" immediately solves all the problems, so its nothing but natural to blame pulseaudio.<div> <br></div><div>This is my /proc/cpuinfo: <a href="http://pastebin.com/CqccL3qm">http://pastebin.com/CqccL3qm</a></div><div>alsa-inf.sh: <a href="http://pastebin.com/8zC6fdhh">http://pastebin.com/8zC6fdhh</a><br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Pulseaudio is around 6% usage. When there is a game running, sometimes the thing propagates to the WM (Enlightenment DR 18 with all the compositions disabled, I don't like them) itself - windows lag when I try to move/resize, take longer to open or freeze for a couple of seconds without reason. Once again: killing pulseaudio solves it IMMEDIATELY. I've never had this behaviour without pulseaudio. As a matter of fact, I can play 2 or 3 of those games simultaneously (I have 2 screens) with ALSA without any noticeable slowdown.</div> <div><br></div><div>top with Audacious playing music: <a href="http://pastebin.com/8eBbus7k">http://pastebin.com/8eBbus7k</a><br></div><div>top with Skype (and nothing else going on): <a href="http://pastebin.com/DyJ0vJWC">http://pastebin.com/DyJ0vJWC</a><br> </div><div><br></div><div>My pulseaudio configurations are the very default ones, except that these are disabled in <a href="http://default.pa">default.pa</a></div><div><div> #load-module module-device-restore</div><div> #load-module module-stream-restore</div><div> #load-module module-card-restore</div></div><div> #load-module module-switch-on-port-available<br></div><div>and this:</div><div> resample-method = trivial<br></div> <div> <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 July 2014 11:40, Alexander E. Patrakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrakov@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrakov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">14.07.2014 00:04, Benny de von Ausfern wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> So yes, I tried to install pulseaudio again, for the 99th time. No, it did not work "out-of-the-box", pulseaudio does not work out of the box for any of my devices, not for the past 4 years. No, its not simpler than ALSA, I have to crawl everywhere to tell it to stop being intrusive (who said that I want it to reset my mixer volumes every single time I plug in/out my headphones!??!).<br> </blockquote> <br></div> (ignored, as this is not the main point)<div class=""><br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> So before ranting all against pulseaudio again, I decided to come here and let you guys perhaps point out if I've done anything wrong. Performance is the name of the game here.<br> <br> I cannot, for instance, play games and listen to music at the same time. Pulseaudio eats so much resource trying to resample everything that even if I set the graphics resolution of a 2008 game to its minimum, run it windowed in 720 (rather than my 1080) the game is still only marginally playable. Add skype voicechat together with that and the game is simply unplayable. I've tested with 5 different games (FEZ, Trine 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Brutal Legend, Dungeons & Dragons Online - on Wine), they are all unplayable (some run ok if its only music + game, but none with skype + game or skype + game + music). I've tried different resample methods, but even "resample-method = trivial", the FPS drop is so considerable that its hard/unpleasant/impossible to play these games regardless of what I do (except for FEZ, that one works. Guess why....)<br> </blockquote> <br></div> We need to separate wine and PulseAudio bugs here. It's quite unusual that you blame PulseAudio even though wine contains a much slower resampler that is always on. Please see this bug that I still refuse to work on because my earlier work was ignored:<br> <br> <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30639" target="_blank">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_<u></u>bug.cgi?id=30639</a><br> <br> Can you reproduce the bug without wine?<br> <br> Also, some details about your systems would be nice. All we need is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo, the "top" output while making an audio call with skype (with no games), and the information collected by alsa-info.sh script:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh" target="_blank">http://www.alsa-project.org/<u></u>alsa-info.sh</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> -- <br> Alexander E. Patrakov<br> ______________________________<u></u>_________________<br> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">pulseaudio-discuss@lists.<u></u>freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-<u></u>discuss</a><br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>