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WoW Plays great for me except for a minor issue. When starting the game with the play button I have sound. Once I am at the log in screen I sometimes have sound and sometimes I don't. Normally I can go into options and Sound and set it to "system" OR "system default" and it will be fixed. After doing this a few times only a reboot will fixed it. I am running:

System Info Distro: Ubuntu 11.10 CPU: Quad Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz 2500.458 MHz @ 19.53 Ghz Memory: 4622/5981M [||||||||||] Storage: 1835.05G Free: 1131.43G Uptime: 1 day 15 hrs 23 mins 21 secs Load Average: 0.00 0.01 0.05 Processes: 156 Graphic: nVidia Corporation G71GL [Quadro FX 3500] (rev a1) Screen: 1680x1050 (32 bpp) Network: eth0: In: 2.25G Out: 215.6

The soundcard is the onboard nvidia HDA soundcard product: MCP51 High Definition Audio [10DE:26C]
vendor: nVidia Corporation [10DE]

Not sure if there is a real fix. I really don't prefer to disable Pulse Audio. I am going to update to 12.04 when it is released next week. Maybe it will self repair. I will keep posted.

Any word on this? I'm having a problem with games not using the default sound device for the system. In some games I can change it to the device I want to use, but with games like StarCraft II, I cannot. I can change it in the settings for each bottle, but it makes it harder when I want to use a different sound device.

Hi,

I've asked the support team. Here what they have answered :

try creating a ~/.asoundrc file and put in it

pcm.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
hint {
show on
description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
}
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
}

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc has more details on settings that can be put in .asoundrc

Thanks

At first i was having an issue where is a program already seized the soundcard then when i started wow there would be no sound. After i installed some plugins that issue went away. i still have the same issue you are talking about and its annoying.