This is how I fixed the sound on Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit: Looked at the game initialisation output in the cmd so I can see what it's looking for. For me, this fixed it: sudo apt-get install libasound2:i386 sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386 and it now works with sound with no command line parameters etc. It needed the 32 bit libraries to work on a 64 bit system by the looks of it. Hope this helps someone who like me, was scouring the forums looking how to fix this problem...