Raine 0.96.12 : the revenge of ffman1985 !

[Tux]

9 hours ago, mer-curious said:

Hello Tux! Thank you so much for the details on the "real full-screen" mode. Now I understand your rationale.

So it still makes sense to have the option named as "Yes (desktop)", as far as I've understood? Or perhaps it would be better read as "Full-screen mode (Desktop)" and have the alternatives named just as "Yes" and "No"?

I think I could do that and fix all the linked translated strings in the code if you agreed with the change...

If you want...

9 hours ago, mer-curious said:

Now that the full-screen issues are gone, I could finally play with the emulator regularly again and I think I've stumbled upon two issues:

- the left arrow key in the keyboard can also enter/confirm actions in the GUI. Is this expected?

- Raine is not following the sound output setting configured as default in desktop. Apparently it selects the first sound output offered by the driver, which in my case are the computer speakers.

I came across this issue recently when I connected my laptop computer to a TV and had no sound coming from Raine. Then I tried it with my desktop and had the same result.

Here is what Windows sets as default when I connect my computer to the TV:

The selected option is the one in blue, the Samsung TV internal speakers (click on the image to magnify).

And here is what Raine sets as default:

It selects as the default "Sound device" the computer speakers, and if you don't have any connected, you will hear nothing in the game.

I had to figure out why no sound was coming from the program, and then finally found that the issue was with the sound device selected by Raine as default.

So, I was wondering if it wouldn't be possible to have Raine select as default sound device the one currently set in Windows desktop. I suppose this would let the program a little more user-friendly, especially for new Raine users which are used to playing with other emulators. As far as I remember, most emulators don't need this kind of configuration, they just use the sound device currently set in the desktop. But I'm not sure how doable this would be though...

Anyway, I'll wait your comments on that. I can also test another preview build if you need.

Thank you so much again for your work.

You know normal people don't keep on deleting their config files all the time, usually sound setup is done in a few seconds only once and never after that, so it doesn't really matter which device is selected by default usually...

But it's your day of luck, sdl2 thought about people like you and it knows about selecting a default device instead of just the 1st one, so that's what I'll do now. I can't test it now because I don't have any pc with 2 soundcards, maybe the mini but it has no raine for now because of a very small disk... I might test this later then. (but I don't guarantee sdl2 default will be the one in your desktop, but maybe !).

edit after trying : no luck, the mini has only 1 soundcard detected, I got an old pc with 2 but this one hasn't been powered on for 3 years now and everything is too outdated on it to test something like that ! Oh well, you'll test that next time... ! Anyway I have no pc with 2 soundcards and windows installed on it !

[mer-curious]

16 hours ago, Tux said:

But it's your day of luck, sdl2 thought about people like you and it knows about selecting a default device instead of just the 1st one, so that's what I'll do now. I can't test it now because I don't have any pc with 2 soundcards, maybe the mini but it has no raine for now because of a very small disk... I might test this later then. (but I don't guarantee sdl2 default will be the one in your desktop, but maybe !).

Hello Tux! Thank you so much for trying to fix this issue so quickly.

I don't have a second sound card here either, I only have the one on the motherboard. The second sound device which shows in Windows is the TV speakers. I connect my desktop or laptop computer to the TV via HDMI input/output and then Windows automatically sets the sound device as the TV speakers (in my case, a Samsung TV).

So, if you have a computer or laptop with HDMI out and a TV with HDMI in you should be able to reproduce this issue with the selected sound device in Raine.

Otherwise, you could provide a test build again so I could see if the issue is indeed fixed. I'll be glad to do that.

Thank you so much again for your time and attention.

PS: there are also some computer monitors with internal speakers, but I don't have one here.

Edited November 8, 2024 by mer-curious

[Tux]

12 hours ago, mer-curious said:

Hello Tux! Thank you so much for trying to fix this issue so quickly.

I don't have a second sound card here either, I only have the one on the motherboard. The second sound device which shows in Windows is the TV speakers. I connect my desktop or laptop computer to the TV via HDMI input/output and then Windows automatically sets the sound device as the TV speakers (in my case, a Samsung TV).

So, if you have a computer or laptop with HDMI out and a TV with HDMI in you should be able to reproduce this issue with the selected sound device in Raine.

Otherwise, you could provide a test build again so I could see if the issue is indeed fixed. I'll be glad to do that.

Thank you so much again for your time and attention.

PS: there are also some computer monitors with internal speakers, but I don't have one here.

Same kind of hdmi setup but without windows. Anyway... !

edit : I actually just noticed why the mini didn't have a 2nd soundcard, because it's an integrated intel soundcard which needs a dedicated firmware ! Since I don't use it because I need a digitial out connector and it has none I don't really care, but I installed the firmware anyway. But no luck for you, it's a very specialized pc, no desktop environment at all and no windows, so it still selected the usb soundcard as it did before, oh well, you'll see on your side but if it doesn't work like you want I won't be able to do anything about it anyway ! (sdl2 choice, not mine).