On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:51:30PM +0100, Marco Pietrobono wrote:
> > hi, I'm currently hunting down a frequent crash related to dsound.dll.
> >
> > while I was trying to play Baldur's Gate with wine, I have discovered
> > that wine crashed quite often due to some problem with dsound buffers.
> >
> > I have included dumps from wine-dbg from three different crashes. In
> > the third case, I was running wine with -debugmsg +trace,+dsound but I
> > have included only the last few lines, plus a dump of dsound variables
> > as seen in the debugger. this last crash has happened while BG was
> > changing the scene.
> >
> > I have looked at wine's dsound_main.c source, and from this as well as
> > from the previous output I have come to a conclusion: it seems to me
> > that the application which is using dsound.dll services (currently
> > Baldur's Gate) is able to release a DSoundBuffer even during
> > DSOUND_Thread_MixPrimary (and/or DSOUND_MixIn) primary buffer
> > processing. DSOUND_Thread_MixPrimary is using
> >
> > for (i = dsound->nrofbuffers - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>
> Well spotted. I have added, as you suggested, another critical section
Oh yeah, good to see something I mentioned a year ago finally fixed...
(I used to keep a crude fix (too crude to submit) around on my wine tree
at home, but since I'm currently studying far away from home, I don't have
access to it.)
