azure depot
the meme, yes
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 with XFCE.
I have two audio devices: an HDMI screen and bluetooth headphones. I start the game with HD 250BT selected, and I get no audio (audio is of course enabled in the game). However, switching the audio output device to Starship and then back to HD 250BT makes the audio work (I can hear the banger soundtrack)
Temporary fix: after startup, manually switch the game to the default output device
brave apex
Make sure the game is outputting to that device
The game defaults to the first audio output instead of the default but it's not a bug the devs can fix
azure depot
The game defaults to the first audio output instead of the default but it's not ...
Ah, yes, that's the issue
why is it not fixable? 😦
brave apex
I can't pull up the old bug report because Discord's search is terrible, but it's a bug with a framework they can't touch
dapper agate
That temp fix worked for me. Kind of a pain though.
quick ironBOT
Unfortunately afterlooking into the issue, there is little we can do to fix this specific issue for Linux.
west flume
I'm experiencing this issue, but I can't see anywhere to change where it's outputting? is it a linux setting we're talking about?
dapper agate
I'm experiencing this issue, but I can't see anywhere to change where it's outpu...
Yes, back in your normal Linux desktop taskbar/system tray (where the audio icon is located).
brave apex
Yes, in your audio manager
west flume
ok, cool. Thanks! I'll check it out!
that did work, unfortunate that it can't be fix easily 😦 minor issue though, Thanks for the quick response!
pallid bloom
Remember you can always force using proton, this bug is fixed if you use it.
dapper agate
I was able fix this permanently on my system by disabling the other non-used audio controllers.
plucky laurel
same issue here. fixed by forcing proton
pallid bloom
I was able fix this permanently on my system by disabling the other non-used aud...
I guess technically if you disabled all the others but the one you're using, it would work, still not great though.
limpid star
could it be "fixed" with a pipewire config? forcing by name that output to be on default? i don't know if this is possible tbh i don't know how powerful pipewire can be
terse ember
I found a workaround for the audio issue by disabling other audio controllers. However, it would be great if the game could include an option to select the output device directly in the settings, similar to what many other games offer. This would provide a more user-friendly solution for players experiencing audio problems.
gaunt lava
really frustrating that this is marked as "won't fix", even though the game claims to support Linux. I don't have the sound settings mentioned earlier in the thread, and Proton resulted in 1FPS. Don't want to tweak my settings for another hour. Was unfortunately a frustrating start and thus I've refunded the game for now.
opaque elm
Seems a small ask to add a dropdown for the discovered audio controllers in the audio settings, but 🤷♂️ we're pretty resourceful so it's nbd
Although I understand that's not really a bugfix as much as a feature add 🙂
sturdy narwhal
Yeah I'm going to have to say this shouldn't say that it supports linux if you have to finangle around with the audio for a while. Marking it as won't fix is a huge deal for a lot of people.
trim flower
The issue is that unity doesn't allow us to select the audio device
We'd have to switch to an entirely different audio system (like fmod)
which might happen in the future but we don't want to promise something we can't hold
austere sierra
audio issues is a common problem with a whole lot of games. infact i have had to do stuff like this when on windows. this doesnt make it less compatible. ANYWAYS if your using KDE plasma disable your other audio source by following these image.
brave apex
Hello fellow KDE user
austere sierra
if your using pipewire and dont want to disable your thing you can find the game (FMOD Ex App.) in a patchbay like helvum. and drag it so the lines go to the output you want. it can even go to multiple outputs if your playing with friends with headphones
austere sierra
Hello fellow KDE user
hello :3
austere sierra
if your using pipewire and dont want to disable your thing you can find the game...
yes atm using this method is playing out of bolth my computers headphone jack and my hdmi monitors headphone jack. very cool
fresh umbra
[POP!os]Ok, fixed my problem too. However, the fix is a little bit different as the unity seems to be doing some stuff that i am not aware off. But selecting another device in the sound control panel and reselecting the correct one, the sound now works.
frank flint
same issue here. fixed by forcing proton
This worked for me as well. Thanks!
pallid bloom
Okay, i made a shell script to fix this issue, it seems to work perfectly!
#!/bin/sh
# Get the name of the first available audio output device
first_sink=$(pactl list short sinks | awk 'NR==1 {print $2}')
# Get the name of the current default audio output device
original_sink=$(pactl get-default-sink)
# Launch the game in the background
steam steam://rungameid/2162800 &
# Wait for 10 seconds to give the game time to start
sleep 10
# Use the first available audio output device
pactl set-default-sink $first_sink
# Use the original default audio output device
pactl set-default-sink $original_sink
If you want, you should be able to launch the shell script as a non-steam game too.
Some of these tips should probably go in #linux-specific too
proper hearth
How do you reconcile the claim that 'Unity cannot select a default audio device for Linux' with the fact that other Unity games that run natively on Linux such as Hollow Knight, Tabletop Simulator, Getting Over It, Blasphemous, Plague Inc: Evolved, 7 Days to Die, Graveyard Keeper, Dusk, Darkwood, and Superhot have audio that works out of the box?
azure depot
Yeah, I didn't have any audio issues with Hollow Knight and Getting Over It
willow cedar
its a unity engine bug. the bug was fixed in 2022.3.27f1, and the game currently runs 2022.3.10 , i dont know the dev environment he uses, but i assume he has something that breaks if he updates the game engine, and i dont blame him for not wanting to. complaining that other games can do it @proper hearth isnt the answer, game dev is actually hard, and linux audio continues to be duct tape and faith.
trim flower
How do you reconcile the claim that 'Unity cannot select a default audio device ...
Because most likely they use FMOD (or a different unity version)
We might look into upgrading unity but we ran into a lot of issues last time
azure depot
to be clear, I totally understand that this is a minor issue and it may not be trivial to solve 👍 cross-platform support is hard
mortal cosmos
Okay, i made a shell script to fix this issue, it seems to work perfectly!
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Your script run fine, thx !
pallid bloom
Yeah np! Glad it works.
I've still been trying to figure out if i can fix it using steam launch options
If i ever do i'll share it here!
hushed oxide
Can confirm the "bug" I was experiencing involving audio on linux was indeed the game defaulting to a different audio device. Disabled other audio devices (they don't work anyway, I don't need them as options) and it now defaults to the only working audio device and voila, sound.
Can also confirm the switching audio device to one of the others, then back to the one I want causes sound to start working in-game (even without disabling other audio devices). That script previously mentioned should work if you don't want to disable those other audio outputs (like if you have speakers and headphones and like to switch between the two)
trim flower
Linked this bug to #🔍troubleshooting
proper hearth
Are the issues in upgrading unity caused by updating to a too recent/unstable version? Would the latest LTS (2022.3.42f1) be impossible? It seems like that would include the bugfix from 2022.3.27f1 and I wouldn't imagine it would cause breaking changes.
proper hearth
From what I can gather changes should be rather minimal within 2022 LTS updates (documentation section for upgrades addresses only changes between LTS year/major version, not within the year - which seems to imply they should be relatively trivial) but I am admittedly no unity developer.
pallid bloom
Yeah, LTS releases should have no feature differences, just bug or security fixes, so idk but upgrading to that probably would be fine?
trim flower
Are the issues in upgrading unity caused by updating to a too recent/unstable ve...
we would need to see what happens if we upgrade, but that's a huge change so we have to thoroughly test it
We had some bad experiences with upgrading (game crashing constantly) so we are very careful
brave apex
Personally I'd rather deal with needing to manually switch it than have the game start crashing frequently 😅
proper hearth
Well hopefully it's not one or the other. I just wanted to bring this to attention.
eager maple
I think the ideal solution would be to have an audio output picker in the audio settings, so that the user can select the desired sink if it was not picked automatically.
brave apex
The issue is that unity doesn't allow us to select the audio device
See:
eager maple
That is true, however FMOD does allow this: https://qa.fmod.com/t/switching-audio-output-device-esp-for-vr/15386/2
brave apex
We'd have to switch to an entirely different audio system (like fmod)
See immediately below 😅
eager maple
TIL: https://qa.fmod.com/t/is-unitys-audio-system-actually-fmod-core/17463
IG that's why the app reports itself as FMOD then?
eager maple
Toggling the default sink did not work for me, but grabbing the client ID for the game and moving the sink explicitly did```bash
#!/bin/bash
CLIENTS=$(pactl -f json list sink-inputs)
CLIENTS=$(echo "$CLIENTS" | jq 'map({ index: .index, name: .properties."application.process.binary" })')
SHAPEZ_ID=$(echo "$CLIENTS" | jq '.[] | select(.name | startswith("shapez 2")) | .index')
if [[ -z "$SHAPEZ_ID" ]]; then
echo "No app found"
else
echo "Moving sink input for Shapez: $SHAPEZ_ID"
pactl move-sink-input "${SHAPEZ_ID}" 0
fi
proven hamlet
Requires third party tool, jq
proven hamlet
Which is fine, unix is built on toolchains, but you should list your dependencies ❤️
eager maple
I kind of assumed it was included by default on Ubuntu, but it appears that actually not many packages depend on it (directly) 🤔
Ah, yes, that would be why I have it installed
proven hamlet
mmhmm mmhmm
trim flower
Could you try and see if it persists in 0.0.8? ( #✨updates ) It should be fixed in that version
mortal pike
Same here. It chooses this instead of the system wide default.
brave apex
See if 0.0.8 fixes it ( #✨updates )
mortal pike
See if 0.0.8 fixes it ( <#1000733575567659138> )
It fixed it.
eager maple
Can confirm 0.0.8 correctly selects the default audio device
eager maple
Ah, yes, that would be why I have it installed
Actually, I was mistaken about this 👀
The manually installed dependent was obscuring the fact that jq is indeed installed automatically in Ubuntu. That's been bothering me for the last two days because I could have sworn it was a requirement for desktop 😅
But yes, on other systems it might not be installed automatically
azure depot
Strange, has there been an update or something? It works for me on 0.0.7 now
willow cedar
As of the beta 0.0.8, i can confirm the game now uses the default audio device on my pc, which was previously not working as expected. Thank you @trim flower
willow cedar
Strange, has there been an update or something? It works for me on 0.0.7 now
the bug relates to unity not picking the default device, but picking the first device listed. it is possible that your audio devices initialised in a different order resulting in your default device being the first device, while at other times being not the first device. i just tested and it is still broken in 0.0.7, but updating to the 0.0.8 beta via steam did fix it for me
azure depot
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