Hi, I tried DOTA2 on steam (native linux), and I heard that the sound is crackling during the intro scene and menus (everyting except gameplay scenes). Is anybody noticed this issue too ?
I did not have this symptom. Everything ran perfectly for me. I went through the tutorial and everything. I have seen this problem in the past with some games, but never found a solution.
Perhaps it's caused by my old audigy soundcard. This card (first gen) is really old, and maybe the linux drivers aren't up to date. I keep it for digital djing and DAW (24bit, full duplex, 4 stereo out, still a decent asio sound card)
I have an Audigy on my Vista machine. Its about 5 years old. I would think Linux could handle a 5 year old dedicated sound card. Yeah, look for some newer drivers
There is plenty of audigy models, mine is one of the first released (with gold plated jacks, etc...), I believe at least 10 years old or more edit : according to wikipedia where second gen audigy 2 is already 11years old, I can say than mine is even older I used it on 3 generations of PCs, and at least 4 pcs (2xPCs with athlon single core, and 2xPCs with athlon dual core). Working great with JACK and alsa on music apps, by the way.
Wow, really? Thats pretty cool... I still have a couple Sound Blasters. In that case... 10 years old may be the problem. How old is your motherboard?
I don't know, my best machine (used for gaming and music) is the one I'm tpying this message, you've got the specs in my forum signature
Wow, I'm dumb! I didn't even notice. So you have no idea what motherboard you have? Maybe crack open the case and take a look. I'm just curious if the onboard audio would work better for games? Nice Video Card by the way
I tried the internal sound device (probably a standard ac97 or something), and no more crackling sound. I still don't know why my good old audigy works with everything (including gaming) except the tiny DOTA2 intro. I bet we'll never know ! LOL
Yeah, very interesting. Oh well, no biggie... if Audigy is happy with most games, then you have it made!
Anyway, changing the sound config in Ubuntu take about 2seconds (click on sound title bar icon, click settings, click sound device, and that's it).
I had a strange problem over the weekend... I am trying to make a video with recordmydesktop so we can have video guides and there was no audio. So I tried setting the output to onboard, which I thought was already set because I can obviously hear my games and now I can hear sound in my video. Who knows?
