[CLOSED] Weird audio bug with proton and pulse | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 1:36 PM

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Hey there!
So, I play dead by daylight on my (Arch) machine, and it works pretty well; but I'm having the oddly specific issue that many sounds completely cease to occur if I'm not looking in the in game direction of the source (i.e. I look slightly away from a generator right next to me and it goes completely silent)

I hate to come in here with such a vague problem, but noone on proton.db seemed to share the issue, I've tried switching proton versions and even modifying the game's config to increase the audio quality, but the problem persists. Any help is appreciated, thank you so much!

spice bloom Jul 30, 2023, 1:38 PM

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hey, are you using any launch options?

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 1:38 PM

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not currently, no

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is there one I should be using?

spice bloom Jul 30, 2023, 1:41 PM

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no, i just remeber that i used to have an issue with sound with a specific launch option. noto on dbd tho

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what audio driver are you using?

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 1:43 PM

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this may make me sound stupid, but I thought pulse was my driver

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or is it something else?

spice bloom Jul 30, 2023, 1:43 PM

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make sure it pulseaudio

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try export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulseaudio in the terminal

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seems to work for some people in SUSE 👀

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 1:47 PM

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cool, I'll give it a shot!

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no dice :(

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the issue persists

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if it helps, the dependancies installed are lib32, and my machine is x86

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though I don't think that should matter in this case

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probably

spice bloom Jul 30, 2023, 1:55 PM

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seems like the wiki suggests to use ~/.steam/root/<DISTRO>/steam-runtime/run.sh %command% as a launch option as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting

Game-specific troubleshooting

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waity

spice bloom Jul 30, 2023, 1:56 PM

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spice bloom seems like the wiki suggests to use `~/.steam/root/<DISTRO>/steam-runtime/run.sh...

check the folder ~/.steam/root for a folder with arch or something

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seems like the wiki uses ubuntu 👀

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 1:58 PM

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oh dear

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there's 2

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a linux32 and a linux64

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and no arch

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oh

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it's because they're still called ubuntu for some reason

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the folders, I mean

spice bloom Jul 30, 2023, 2:01 PM

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noble terrace it's because they're still called ubuntu for some reason

oh ok then use that

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yeah on the wiki they have ubuntu name in there so i was confused

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 2:06 PM

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sadly, still not the fix we're looking for

noble terrace Jul 30, 2023, 2:29 PM

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I appreciate the help (/gen) but I gotta head to bed

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if anyone has any other ideas while I'm asleep, feel free to shoot them in here, I'll try them as soon as I log back on

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have a good night yall

#[CLOSED] Weird audio bug with proton and pulse