No sound with steam since 3 days

Adrien.D · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

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 · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 185

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

Adrien.D · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

hhfeuer · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 185

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

Adrien.D · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

Naib · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:45 pm Post subject:

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 · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

My sound card is correct and HDMI off.
alsasound service already at default runlevel.
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Adrien.D · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

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 · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

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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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 · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jan 2015 Posts: 157

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 · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 652

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

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 · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2015 Posts: 11

genbort · n00b Joined: 27 May 2019 Posts: 12

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 · n00b Joined: 10 Jan 2015 Posts: 5

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 · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:34 am Post subject:

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. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

majoron · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:07 am Post subject:

Yunoc · n00b Joined: 05 May 2024 Posts: 1

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.