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I just wanted to post another way for Archers to use PoL and PulseAudio 5.0. Using 64-bit wine versions in PoL work, and I am currently in the process of installing several of my games in 64-bit virtual drives to check if things work as before. So far everything seem to work perfectly.

I can't get 64 bit wine to work either.

[code]ALSA lib dlmisc.c:252:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so[/code]

Seems to affect both :(

Edited by Vidar

I can't get 64 bit wine to work either.

ALSA lib dlmisc.c:252:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

Seems to affect both :(

That is odd. Are you sure you specifically selected 64-bit installation when setting up a new virtual drive? According to all comments on Arch forums, as well as my own experience, 64-bit virtual drives do work with the new Pulse Audio.

I assume you know that there is no way to convert an already existing virtual drive from 32-bit to 64-bit.

Otherwise you can either downgrade the packages pulseaudio, libpulse and lib32-libpulse to get it working. Or set up .asoundrc as previously mentioned as a temporary workaround.

I should have clarified. I edited my post.

I did create a new 64bit prefix and installed a game. I tried an old wine version 1.5.7 with a vertex patch and it crashes with that error. I then tried with normal 1.7.14 and the game works but clicking the Audio tab in Wine configuration crashes too.

The new pulseaudio version has been nothing but problems in my opinion. I do hope upstream recognize the issues and fix it by the next version.

You can create a temporary .asoundrc as previously mentioned. It will let PoL applications output to your specified hardware device without needing to go through pulse, which solves the problem. But it is not a good permanent solution. You could keep the .asoundrc in a different directory, and just move it into your home folder just before playing something from PoL.

The only other thing I can think of is to downgrade, provided you have not cleared your pacman cache.

Edit: In case it could be of interest. I also had problems with both Timidity and Munt, which is use to get great sound in old games running through DosBox. In order to fix this problem, I had to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and add the line:

default-fragment-size-msec = 5

and then restart pulseaudio (pulseaudio -k && pulseaudio --start). Others mentioned on Arch forums that this also solved problems with crackling audio and other minor issues.

Edited by Daerandin