Sound in Ubuntu 12.01.1 lts Edition, 64 bits

I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS edition, with wine 1.4.1 stable version.

I had experienced drop outs of sound, which I have now been able to resolve.

Solution:

1. Run a Grep command to display the sound cards used on your system, it displayed 2 for me, a generic one (0) and one by NVIDIA (1) *will edit later to include commands*

*It would seem, that wine was getting confused between the 2 sound cards as default.

2. Configure wine, change the sound settings tab. You need to change from default, to use the HDA NVIDIA ***** version on the output fields.

How does it work:

I assume, that it just sets the sound card to the NVIDIA version of it, and not to default, which wine seems to keep switching or confusing itself with. This has enabled sound clearly for me for hr's of game play, where previously, it would drop out within 5 minutes.

Try the default settings first, in both the game and sound under wine. Always use default sound settings in the game, unless you have a specific hardware that's listed.

Please note, this solution, should work for other games experiencing the same sound problems.