Wine, pulseaudio, Starcraft problems

[Reid Rivenburgh]

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.)  I could go to the Sound
options and change the sound output device to another in the list and
that would magically restore the sound for awhile.  Still, that got
annoying, so I tried to fix it.  Somehow, I made it much worse; now,
everything is going much more slowly.  I had to turn all the
performance options to low, and I still only get a few frames per
second.  And I have no sound.  Now that's really annoying!  I'm not
sure what I did, aside from a tip I found to get pulseaudio to run
with higher priority by adding my account to some groups.  I had
installed tuned, but that seemed to kill performance, so I uninstalled
it.  I think that at least partially the problem is still rooted in
pulseaudio.  Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this?  Aside
from wine, I haven't had any problems with audio (like playing music)
in a long time.

TIA,
Reid