Wine, pulseaudio, Starcraft problems

[James Mckenzie]

Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
>Sent: Oct 19, 2010 10:11 AM
>To: "Community assistance, encouragement,
>	and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Wine, pulseaudio, Starcraft problems
>
>On the off chance someone has been down this path....  I'm currently
>running an up-to-date F13 with wine installed.  I run KDE if it
>matters.  I was able to install and start Starcraft 2 using wine.
>Initially, it actually ran quite well on my 2.5-year old system.  The
>only glitch seemed to be that the audio would cut out if the system
>got too bogged down.  (I would also get errors in /var/log/messages
>about pulseaudio's ratelimit kicking in.) 

This is your problem.  Kill pulseaudio and switch to Alsa when running this game.  Wine does not and WILL not support pulseaudio.

James McKenzie