Hi, I've just finished Ys 1 and I run it on Linux. Now I'm gonna play Ys 2 but I have a problem.

Ys 1 & 2 FMVs have a problem with Wine. The game would crash without some workarounds. For Ys 1 this is just disabling winegstreamer and installing amstream and quartz. For Ys 2 I found out that I also have to install dsound via winetricks to get FMVs working.

However, native dsound also make Adol's footsteps stuck in a loop, getting louder and nonstop even when Adol stops running. If I change it back to builtin this glitch disappears but the game would crash every time an FMV triggers.

Anyone knows how to fix this? And in case I really can't fix the glitch, can you give me a list of when FMVs would trigger (e.g. like before the Roda trees and when Rea plays her song in Ys1) so I can save the game and change dsound to builtin to experience the game without crashing or having to skip cutscenes?

Yeah, sound in Ys 2 is broken with native dsound. I believe other sounds also loop, but the footsteps are the loudest. For working sound and working videos: That's with winegstreamer set to disabled. I assume there is some sort of race as I found trying to get a WINEDEBUG=+relay log actually made the videos work. IIRC, redirecting to /dev/null was too fast and still crashed. Redirecting to a pipe (mknod) also works for me. Adjust paths, prefix & game location, as needed for launch command. The pipe blocks until you look at it which is the reason for the head command.

You can likely get away with just setting dsound back to builtin vs a new prefix.

Thank you very much. I'm gonna try this tonight.