America's Army Mono Sound Output

Peach · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject: America's Army Mono Sound Output

I've recently emerged America's Army 1.70,
really like this game, and everything seems to work fine but...
the sound output is MONO!!! I also tried with dolby surround and so on.. (the 2 option on sound section under settings) but nothing has changed... any hint??

I'm using Alsa sound with a C-Media CMI8738 (everything works fine, xmms works really nice)

:?:

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sumC · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:23 pm Post subject:

Cant help you, just say that I have the same problem...
I have nForce2 audio and stereo sound in other games.

Peach · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

it's unbeareable playing this kinda game with MONO SOUND!!!

like trying to watch a sunset photo collection site with a green phosphore's monitor..
got it?

btw hope someone will fix this soon... just only if there's no way around this prob...

I'll unmerge it soon if this won't happen...

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Niek · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:49 am Post subject:

Hi,

I had the same problem for some time, and today I fixed it

The problem is that the openal.so that comes with AA is broken. You have to build one yourself (from CVS) and then copy it over the original openal.so. I've build one (CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" ./configure --enable-arts --enable-sdl --enable-vorbis --enable-arts --enable-esd --enable-smpeg) that should work on every system and I've put it on my webpage. Here is how you can fix the sound:

Peach · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 7:25 am Post subject:

you've done a great thing, but it isn't working for me... you need to build a static openal.so or at least different versions... dunno, I've never did such cross platform build...
I'll dl the cvs and build it myself too...
thanks again Niek

btw I have an AthlonXP cpu...

where did you get the CVS version? I will dl it too if I know where to grab it... I'm waiting in line...

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NePhie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 82

what you reaaaly shouldn't do is -march imho
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Peaceable Frood · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 2:42 pm Post subject:

It shouldn't be a problem doing -march unless your going to distribute the file which oifcourse it will only work on a pentium2, you could always do -march=i686, since I don't think that a person with a i386 or i586 is going to be playing bleeding edge games. You up there want to do -march=athlon-xp
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Peach · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:12 pm Post subject:

right...

if you can rebuild that file I'll be pleased but use these to build a safe port:

grover · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject:

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Peach · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject:

grover · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

It compiled fine and the game loads ok with stereo sound at last. A lot of the sounds are screwed up though. Did you have this problem Niek? Tried it with and without EAX but it didn't make any difference.

Peach · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject:

Peach · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 9:35 pm Post subject:

ok, now I've compiled the openal with:

sumC · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject:

How do I compile the cvs source?

I have pulled it from CVS and done

grover · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:34 am Post subject:

Peach · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 3:20 pm Post subject:

sumC · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject:

Got a lot of noise too when I compiled it.

One other way is to copy the openal.so from ut2003-demo
The sound does work right then but the positional audio is not as distinct as the compiled version. At least its better than mono sound.

Niek · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 7:47 am Post subject:

Can you put the openal.so from ut2003 online please? I don't want to download 135MB to get a single 500KB file

Thanks,
Niek.
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Peach · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:32 am Post subject:

if you want to try here's my version
compiled against i686-pc-linux-gnu and using glibc 2.3.1-r4

DOWNLOAD openal.so by The Peach

This is working for me, but there're still some problems in it.

feel free to try it and tell me if it works for you too.
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sumC · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

Peach: It didn't work for me, the noice was still there

Heres the ut2003t version. Hope it works for you...
http://hem.bredband.net/mathut/openal.so

Peach · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 10:01 pm Post subject:

I've noticed that mine version "renders" distorted sounds and I don't really know what's wrong.

Icculus.org is up again, so I submitted a bug to it here

hope something will be solved soon

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neurosis · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject:

*bump*

Anyone made any progress on this? I'm having the same problem in America's Army 1.9, although its more poor positional 3D audio than monoaurial sound.
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sumC · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:11 pm Post subject:

Stereo sound works good for me in 1.9