Sound issues since 5.2.20 - Win98+Fifa98

[cpaelzer]

Hi, I used to use a Virtualbox for quite some time on a private system to emulate Windows 98 SE with Fifa98 RTWC [2]. That was going fine but somewhen throughout last year I list sound. First I thought it would be my messing with the system, but whatever I did it did not return. After a while I did full re-install my system back to the last perfectly working virtualbox version (and a new OS install of the older Ubuntu 16.04).

Then I used the upstream downloads [3] to essentially do a version bisect when it was broken and found it. 6.0.10 (known bad) 5.2_5.2.32-132073 - fail 5.2_5.2.28-130011 - fail 5.2_5.2.20-125813 - fail 5.2_5.2.18-124319 - ok 5.2_5.2.16-123759 - ok 5.2_5.2.14-123301 - ok 5.2_5.2.4-119785 - dkms error on install 5.5.2_2.0-118431 - dkms error on install 5.1_5.1.38-122592 - ok (known good)

It is not that sound would be broken totally, e.g. windows startup sound works and playing wav files. But when starting the game sound fails (no error message). Back out of the game Windows sound works still.

I think this uses DX5 for sound, but I'm not sure.

I tried to replace the (virtual) sound card from soundblaster to AC97 but that didn't help either.

I wonder what debug data I could collect for you to get this understood and fixed at the head of 6.x series so that I can upgrade again?

P.S. I started this in the Ubuntu tracker at [1], but after the debugging we did I guess it is time to reach out here.

[1]: ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA:_Road_to_World_Cup_98 [2]: ​https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1840749 [3]: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[Socratis]

1. It's usually better and faster, if issues get first addressed in the ​VirtualBox forums, a lot more eyes there. More than 95% of the issues are resolved in the forums, which keeps the developers focusing on the bug fixes and enhancements, and there is no need for another ticket to keep track of. For example, yours is most probably not a bug and someone from the developers has to deal with it and close it as "Invalid".

Plus a discussion and analysis on the bug tracker is going to help me, you, and potentially a future drive-by user or two. Not so in the forums, many more tend to benefit...

Please, open a new thread in the ​Windows Guests section of the forums. Please be sure to mention that you came from the bug tracker and include the ticket number.

2. You were supposed to follow these steps when you filed the bug, and provide a VBox.log:

   Attach a (full) log file ("Machine" menu/"Show Log" in the main VirtualBox Manager window) straight away to save time for you and for us. The log file contains a lot of useful information about both the host and the guest systems as well as information about what happened during a particular machine run. Please do not cut and paste it.

[Darath]

I've seen the exact same issue after upgrading from 5.2.20 to 6.0.14.

I run a Centos7 VM on Windows 10, and I had to disable Audio to stop the VM from locking up randomly more than once a day. My colleague has the exact same issue and disabling Audio fixed the behaviour for him too.