Doom 3 sound garbled

**Rouser** · 06-19-2005

The sound in doom 3 is garbled I was wondering has anyone had this problem and actually fixed it and if so how. I am running the patch from idsoftware. Video looks great just the sound is garbled/scratchy. My sound card shows up as snd-intel8x0 on Mandy 10.2.

**techieMoe** · 06-19-2005

I had what sounds like a similar problem on Fedora Core 4 recently with the latest 1.3 client from Id. What sound system are you using (choose it in the System menu)? I found that when I changed from Alsa to OSS and relaunched the game the sound cleared up.

**Rouser** · 06-19-2005

I switched to oss and now I have no sound.

**Rouser** · 06-19-2005

Could you post your doomconfig that might help a little

**techieMoe** · 06-19-2005

I'll do that the next time I'm on my home computer.

**Curlydave** · 06-19-2005

Just load up Doom3 again and you'll be set. Moe gave you two instructions, and you didn't follow the second one.

**dylunio** · 06-19-2005

Originally Posted by Rouser

I switched to oss and now I have no sound.

Have you got OSS compiled into your kernel? If not do so:

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

here go to
Device Drivers ---> Sound ---> Open Sound System ---> and then select the driver for your sound card and then press Esc untill you are asked if you want to save, select to save. Now:

Code:

make && make modules_install

now oss should work on your system.

**Rouser** · 06-19-2005

OSS is already compled in the kernel and I have restarted the game still no sound.

**Curlydave** · 06-19-2005

Originally Posted by Rouser

OSS is already compled in the kernel and I have restarted the game still no sound.

Oh, sorry, my fault on that diagnosis. I had the exact same problem as you, as the "alsa" and "best" settings gave me garbled sound. I then set it to OSS, and my sound disappeared entirely as you describe and I got pissed. I then simply restarted Doom3 and all was well, except for the abysmal peroformance, courtesy of ATI Linux drivers.

PS: try setting your multimedia selector to "OSS" as well, don't know if that will do anything.

**Rouser** · 06-19-2005

already set to oss I wanted to see if someone could post a working doomconfig file to see where I might be having a problem

Thread Tools

Display

Doom 3 sound garbled

Posting Permissions