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[Request]: Support changing audio drivers, like 'winetricks sound=alsa'

Open adworacz opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Tell us the problem or your need

Hello - Winetricks supports easily changing the wine audio driver using a command like winetricks sound=alsa.

All its doing under the hood is changing a registry setting: https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/blob/master/src/winetricks#L22594-L22621

Describe the solution you'd like

Having a dropdown option under preferences to set the driver to ALSA/Pulse/etc.

Other solutions?

A workaround exists for users to just set the Registry entry themselves using the reg editor.

Example:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\Drivers]
"Audio"="alsa" //or 'pulse' etc

Additional context and references

Being able to set the audio driver in Wine to ALSA can be useful with specific programs like professional audio editing software.

adworacz avatar Aug 16 '22 17:08 adworacz

Popping in to say that I have attempted the registry trick, and It did end up changing the way Ableton loaded the drivers but not in a way that I could get working for me.

A Bottles audio driver option would be superb.

jaylinwylie avatar Mar 23 '24 21:03 jaylinwylie