Bug 1180 - Sound barely audible
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Unreal Tournament 2004
Classification: Unclassified
Component: client
Version: 3120 (Initial demo release)
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact:
URL:
: 1174 1219 1230
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-02-13 19:13 EST by prower
Modified: 2004-03-20 13:14:06 EST
4 users (show)

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Description prower 2004-02-13 19:13:03 EST 
Just recently tried UT2004 under Slackware 9.1, with the ALSA 1.0.2c drivers.
The sound in the demo, despite being maxed out on all available options, is
barely audible at all. I've fiddled with the volume settings in KDE with no
effect; sound is quite loud in everything that I've tried but the demo, in which
I've had to turn the speakers up on bust to hear anything at all. I wasn't even
aware there was music until I physically turned up the speaker volume quite a bit :>
Comment 1 Urbanus 2004-02-13 21:23:09 EST 
Yes, I have the same problem with Debian (unstable). So far I have no sound at
all although I installed the SDL aRTs libraries. Dunno what is wrong.
Comment 2 Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley 2004-02-14 00:45:29 EST 
I'm getting this with the 2.6 kernel and using the OSS-style emu10k1 driver 
(ie, NOT alsa at all). even if i turn the system volume sky-high, i get very 
little audio ingame. 
 
especially the music. 
 
ashridah
Comment 3 Stefan Gehn 2004-02-14 16:20:15 EST 
Same here, linux 2.6.1, emu10k1 driver. 
Actually some sounds are quite loud here, but my own voices are almost not 
audible. music is working but that's the first thing I usually turn off. 
Might there be some broken support for 3d-sound causing that? It sounds a bit 
like on a 3d-sound system the whole rear sound is gone.
Comment 4 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-02-14 19:33:37 EST 
Is this all sound, or just the music?

--ryan.
Comment 5 prower 2004-02-14 19:35:42 EST 
In my case it's all sound, though the announcer voice seems a bit louder than
others. Without turning my speakers up on bust it's impossible to tell that
there's music :> I don't have a 3D sound system so I wouldn't be able to tell if
that's working properly.
Comment 6 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-02-14 19:41:25 EST 
Please note that the game ships with support for Open Sound System and audio via
SDL...if you're using ALSA, the drivers are falling back to the "OSS emulation"
mode.

--ryan.
Comment 7 prower 2004-02-14 19:44:11 EST 
Aha. Well as far as I know my ALSA configuration is working properly, the OSS
emulation included (I haven't had any similar problems in other applications as
of yet, at least).
Comment 8 Keith Constable 2004-02-14 22:30:02 EST 
With kernel 2.6.2 and OSS emu10k1 module, all sound is very quiet for me (music,
weapons, announcer, didn't try VoIP).

As a temporary fix, I pumped up SoundVolume= under ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem in
the ini config file.  Changing it to 2.000000 produced very good results.  You
just have to be sure not to touch the volume sliders in game or this will likely
go back to <=1.
Comment 9 prower 2004-02-14 22:35:44 EST 
Thanks for the suggestion for the temporary fix, it actually improved the
situation quite a bit!
Comment 10 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-02-21 10:07:52 EST 
*** Bug 1174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-02-21 10:59:37 EST 
*** Bug 1219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-02-21 11:04:16 EST 
*** Bug 1230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 St 2004-02-26 09:12:30 EST 
This could also be a fading problem. I've got the same problem with just the
music, though after a while of playing it usually gets to a reasonable volume.
It's still not quite loud enough though, even with the slider all the way to the
right.
Normal sound effects seem to be fine here.

If this is an openal problem I'd say make this a duplicate of bug 1270 and bump
it's priority a bit. ;)
Comment 14 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-03-02 18:57:05 EST 
We improved sound volume quite a bit since the demo. Marking this bug FIXED.

--ryan.
Comment 15 Oliver Feiler 2004-03-20 13:14:06 EST 
Some observations from the retail version:

Music, voice, vehicle and weapon sounds play fine now. Also winning a round in
Onslaught doesn't blow the speakers anymore when the reactor explodes. :)

Ammo and weapon pickup sounds could still use some finetuning. They are very
silent. But this is only a minor issue now and you can leave the bug resolved/fixed.