# FMOD error 37 World of Warcraft SESOUND

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/fmod-error-37-world-of-warcraft-sesound/21417>\
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**Tags:** cpp\
**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/fmod-error-37-world-of-warcraft-sesound/21417 "2024-03-28T08:04:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![maleficarius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@maleficarius](https://qa.fmod.com/u/maleficarius)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/fmod-error-37-world-of-warcraft-sesound/21417/1 "2024-03-28T08:04:44Z")

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Hello, I’ve been playing World of Warcraft with Wine for a few days now, the only issue is that the sound of WoW isn’t working. While reviewing the SESOUND log, I came across the following:

3/27 22:43:50.860 =\> Version 3.3.5 (12340) Jun 24 2010  
3/27 22:43:51.526  
3/27 22:43:51.726 =\> Setting up Game Sound:  
3/27 22:43:51.961 - SESound Engine Init  
3/27 22:43:52.580 - FMOD Memory Init  
3/27 22:43:52.768 - FMOD System Create  
3/27 22:43:52.848 - FMOD version 00040907 detected  
3/27 22:43:52.901 - Hardware is DISABLED  
3/27 22:43:52.956 - Reverb is DISABLED  
3/27 22:43:53.019 - 1 Output drivers detected  
3/27 22:43:53.079 — [0] System Default  
3/27 22:43:53.145 -######## FMOD ERROR! (err 37) An invalid parameter was passed to this function.  
3/27 22:43:53.145 .\SoundEngine.cpp(2513)  
3/27 22:43:53.245 -###########################################################################################  
3/27 22:43:53.312 -######## FMOD ERROR! (err 37) An invalid parameter was passed to this function.  
3/27 22:43:53.312 -######## ERROR INITIALIZING. ALL GAME SOUND DISABLED.  
3/27 22:43:53.312 .\SoundEngine.cpp(2514)  
3/27 22:43:53.356 -###########################################################################################  
3/27 22:43:53.400 =\> Game Sound Init Failed.  
3/27 22:43:53.456

Does anyone know if there’s a tool I need to install or something I need to do to make the sound work?

By the way, I’m using PulseAudio, and my winecfg configuration has the staging options ‘CSMT, VAAPI, and EAX’ enabled.

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Pancackles](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/mr_pancackles/32/7877_2.png) [@Mr\_Pancackles](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Mr_Pancackles)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/fmod-error-37-world-of-warcraft-sesound/21417/2 "2025-01-26T00:16:54Z")

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I have this same issue, hopefully you figured it out. I’m still looking for a solution.