No sound with steam since 3 days

[Adrien.D]

Hi,

Since 2 or 3 days, no sound in Steam.

I work with pulseaudio.
If i use only ALSA, i have sound in games (like CS GO) but if i use pulseaudio again, no sound in CS:GO.

I have sevral games, such as CS:GO, L4D2, Audiosurf and all have no sound.

The log when i start the game in the terminal :

[hhfeuer]

Use pavucontrol to check if the game uses the right output.

[Adrien.D]

[hhfeuer]

While the game is running? Then it's probably trying to use alsa. Did you create an ~/.asoundrc that is blocking things?

[Adrien.D]

[Naib]

I ran into this some time ago (on ~arch so that might explain why I hit that). in PA the source device was defaulting to my hdmi gfx card output rather than the sound card. This kept happening.

I then noticed that /etc/init.d/alsasound was removed from my runlevels??? so after adding that back and again choosing the correct soundcard in PA, it is now working consistently
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[Adrien.D]

My sound card is correct and HDMI off.
alsasound service already at default runlevel.
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[Adrien.D]

Help, did you have an idea ?
Left 4 Dead 2 : no sound
Counter Strike Global Offensive : no sound
AudioSurf 2 : no sound
Eurotruck Simulator 2 : OK sound
All the rest of system : sound works
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[Adrien.D]

An other user have same problem on Arch : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236269

The solution is I was missing pulseaudio-alsa!

But ... pulseaudio have alsa USE.

The package on Arch install only /etc/asound.conf file.

My /etc/asound.conf is empty...

Edit: I copy the file form arch package on my system and reboot.
I have sound into games but .... pulseaudio can't start and I can't use OBS Studio for record microphone AND sound of the game (i need pulseaudio for that)
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Desktop : MSI Gaming Pro X470 - AMD Ryzen 5 2600X - RX 560 - OpenRC GNOME - gentoo-sources-6.1 LTS
Server : Acer Barebone - Intel i3-8100T - OpenRC CLI - gentoo-sources-5.4 LTS
VMs : A lot of VMS to practice Gentoo of course (proxmox, virtualbox)

[Adrien.D]

Hummmm....

I downgraded alsa-lib, alsa-utils and alsa-plugins from 1.1.8 to 1.1.6, now I have sound.

There are a problem with alsa 1.1.8.

I open a bug
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[Ralphred]

[haarp]

Yes, since 1.1.8, many things have been broken. I had to throw out some things from my .asoundrc to get sound working at all. And Timidity still refuses to work with it. https://bugs.gentoo.org/682232

I've simply masked 1.1.8 for now.

[rafaelzigx]

[genbort]

Downgrading is a solution for time being since we would the benefits of a higher version.
So they need to fix the problem earlier with the same version or in the next version.

[cyrevolt]

I had this issue quite often with mocp not starting after upgrading, but not always.

It turned out that a `/etc/asound.conf` like Arch offers makes the output show up in PulseAudio again (*yay*) and I had no issue again so far:
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/asound.conf?h=packages/pulseaudio-alsa

got the idea from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA/dmix_without_grabbing_hardware_device

[seankelly]

I had the same issue for a long time and tried pretty much everything. It was a very simple fix, just make sure all your drivers are updated. I had windows 10 and it is not the most compatible with gaming so i installed Windows 7 instead and just made sure I had all the updated drivers. Its a long fix but it worked for me. Goodluck!

[Ant P.]

[majoron]

[Yunoc]

I found a reddit thread with a solution, that fixed the "no sound in some games issue" for me.
I am using pipewire though.

By creating an executable file returning 0 for the FMOD check, it makes FMOD not bug out and keep its routine running to select the proper default audio driver.