The sound is not going whith the picture

[Dyar]

Hello !

 

I've just started to play TDM on ubuntu 10.04, but I have a problem : the sound come later than the things who make that sound.

And the duration between the sound and the picture is bigger and bigger.

 

What can I do ?

[jdude]

What are your computer specs?

[Dyar]

ubuntu 10.04

 

Processor AMD Sempron LE-1250

1.8 Go Ram

 

GPU: GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a

 

And I don't think I have any sound card.

 

The game launch ALSA, which work very well for doom3

[nbohr1more]

Is EAX 4.0 enabled?

 

Have you tried disabling it?

 

Also, a conDump may have some details (probably not though as everything is running...)

[Mortem Desino]

It sounds much like a problem with ALSA. My sound card is unhappy with my 5.1 surround sound in ALSA (I get 1-second delay like that, too), but it's pretty good under stereo sound.

[Dyar]

EAX is not suported by my plateform.

I also think it is a problem with ALSA. But turning to sereo in the config panel don't change the problem

Here are all the consol messages about the sound:

 

in the initialisation :

 

dlopen(libasound.so.2)

asoundlib version: 1.0.22

Alsa is available

------ Alsa Sound Initialization -----

opened Alsa PCM device default for playback

device buffer size: 5461 frames ( 65532 bytes )

allocated a mix buffer of 49152 bytes

 

Some messages occure when I toggle surround :

 

Shutting down sound hardware

----------- Alsa Shutdown ------------

close pcm

dlclose

--------------------------------------

dlopen(libasound.so.2)

asoundlib version: 1.0.22

Alsa is available

------ Alsa Sound Initialization -----

opened Alsa PCM device default for playback

device buffer size: 5461 frames ( 65532 bytes )

allocated a mix buffer of 49152 bytes

--------------------------------------

Shutting down sound hardware

----------- Alsa Shutdown ------------

close pcm

dlclose

--------------------------------------

dlopen(libasound.so.2)

asoundlib version: 1.0.22

Alsa is available

------ Alsa Sound Initialization -----

opened Alsa PCM device default for playback

device buffer size: 5461 frames ( 21844 bytes )

allocated a mix buffer of 16384 bytes

--------------------------------------

missed 1 sound updates

[nbohr1more]

I should've guessed that EAX would not be available in Linux but Creative provided the Open Source driver for their Audigy and below products so I thought that they might've included it.

 

I recall that there has been some fireworks about the Pulse Audio system and it's affect on the stability of Sound API interfaces in general. I believe there are some topics in the Ubuntu forums about removing Pulse but I don't know if this is relevant for newer releases??? (I think that the current claim is that Pulse Audio is now 99% fixed???)

 

I need to setup a Linux partition again and fiddle around (I'm getting rusty).

[lost_soul]

Yep, I have this problem too. The easiest solution is to set s_driver to oss, instead of best. Be aware though that this is a timewarp, and will take you back to 1996, where only one program can play sound at a time. You won't be able to hear instant messages or listen to music while the game is playing, because oss captures the sound card in the spirit of Windows 95.

 

*is wishing someone would produce a Windows alternative with a PROPER audio subsystem*

[Tels]

Would it be possible to somehow reduce the buffer size?

 

device buffer size: 5461 frames ( 65532 bytes )

 

I have this instead:

 

dlopen(libasound.so.2)                                  
asoundlib version: 1.0.20                               
Alsa is available                                       
------ Alsa Sound Initialization -----                  
opened Alsa PCM device default for playback             
device buffer size: 5644 frames ( 22576 bytes )         
allocated a mix buffer of 16384 bytes

 

The number of frames is the same, so my hunch is that won't help, but who knows?

 

Edit: Some more info:

 

Try this:

 

+set s_driver oss

 

as a commandline argument to tdmlauncher (and hence doom3).

 

Also, see if you have PulseAudio, this was said to cause the lagging. Although I wouldn't disable it because thie procedure sounds risky:

 

http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=504

[Dyar]

Try this:

 

+set s_driver oss

seems to work in stereo.

thanks !

[Tels]

seems to work in stereo.

thanks !

 

Cool, I add it to our FAQ. Sorry for the invonvience, and enjoy your TDM

[Ladro]

Cool, I add it to our FAQ. Sorry for the invonvience, and enjoy your TDM

 

I have the same problem, I opened a bug in tracker:

 

http://bugs.angua.at/view.php?id=2323

 

The strange thing is that with the 1.01 vers. , this problem was not present.

 

A temporary workaround that i use, it's to switch on/off from the sound menu "surround sound", to resume the sound correctly in game.

The problem is present only when in menu, not in the game.