Call of Duty World at War missing sounds on Linux

[gabriele2000]

Using Proton-GE 20.21, without dsoal the sound was butchered (i should update my bug report to bugs.winehq.org.
Using dsoal everything fixes itself, except there are sounds missing, such as the big planes in the second mission (Vendetta).

I created the least convincing tracelog ever, since even at log level 3 it created a super-small log file, but here it is.

I pass every game through "Virtual surround sink" which games can use and set something like 7 channels, even up to 9 I think.
It all gets recalculated into 2 channels for output into the... output.

This is the scheme.

the least convincing trace log ever

[mirh]

I'm going to take a guess that's just the log for the bink videos that play the intro.
The game doesn't use directsound, but XAudio2 (I don't think they still use Miles but the credits supposedly mentions it?).
I just also verified that if you rename XAudio2_0.dll sound dies (the library name isn't in the exe because it's invoked with its CLSID).

[gabriele2000]

The game doesn't use directsound

That doesn't explain why if I don't use that dsound.dll the audio is borked in cutscenes.
Plus, now there's reverb, yay!

[mirh]

Cutscenes are .bik videos, just like the logos. So I guess there's that still.

[gabriele2000]

So I now see that FAudio, a reimplementation of XAudio and XNA is baked into Proton-GE and I guess into normal Proton.
Is is true? What's missing for it to work for this game?

[mirh]

Unknown

[gabriele2000]

So, Proton-GE 10-28 is being compiled on github, when it releases I can finally see if the changes fixes it, since WINEALSA got updated to work on more than 6 channels (this is huge since I had to downgrade my virtual surround sink from 7.1 to 5.1 days ago) and it fixes a longstanding issue.

On Windows, games like Fallout 3 and the likes works better with spatial audio enabled, fixing huge problems with mixing and other issues, let's see if this works too.

[mirh]

Idk who said that would make a difference, the workaround appeared to be installing xact (as it replaces the open-source xaudio2)

[gabriele2000]

Idk who said that would make a difference

Nah it was my assumption

the workaround appeared to be installing xact (as it replaces the open-source xaudio2)

Hey, thanks for the fix!