FAudio Lands In Wine For New XAudio2 Re-Implementation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FAudio Lands In Wine For New XAudio2 Re-Implementation

If the day wasn't exciting enough for Linux gamers thanks to the release of DXVK 1.0, long-time Linux game porter and FNA developer Ethan Lee has seen his FAudio implementation land in Wine for improving the state of XAudio2 support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-Lands-FAudio-XAudio2

[kenjitamura]

Good to hear. I've been using FAudio with my wine installation for the last couple of months and it solved the audio issues I used to have with Elder Scrolls Online. With Elder Scrolls Online after a couple hours of gameplay the audio would start to crackle and require restarting the game client to resolve it.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

What about WMA support? I wonder if distributions can build packages that use system wide WMA decoding, or user still have to rebuild FAudio on their own?

[Weasel]

What about WMA support? I wonder if distributions can build packages that use system wide WMA decoding, or user still have to rebuild FAudio on their own?

Just cross build FAudio as a DLL lol. No need to depend on some stupid centralized distro repository or ffmpeg dependency hell.

(if you don't want to build there are people doing that on github, I can't vouch for them though; see for example https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds)

[RussianNeuroMancer]

see for example https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds

Thanks, this will be useful for some games.