doom 3 sound problem

**benjamin20** · 10-30-2005

ok, i know that doom 3 has given many people sound problems, as well as many other id games. but i just cant get it fixed. sofar ive found that apparently because of alsa having to transfer doom3's 44.1 khz sound to the48 khz that alsa uses, it causes that robotic voice and sound affects that im trying to make out in game. so aparently the fix is to use oss emulation but when i do that i get no sound and the game goes really slow. (like 2 fps if any) however about every minuet it speeds up to normal(but with out sound) for about 5 seconds, then goes slow again. so i go and see if mplayer can use oss and it is just perfectly happy with it. so does anyone know how to fix this.

i have a c-media 7.1 channel soundcard (not using all 7.1 speakers though)

ive tried it with a 2.6.12 kernel and the latest 2.6.13 kernel (stable)

**fyrephlie** · 10-31-2005

have you tried just using windows?

sorry bad joke...

i had this problem too ... for me i just went into my package manager and reinstalled alsa (update / upgrade) and added the -devel packages (i think i clicked on just about everything alsa related ... and it worked fine

doubt it will help but just putting it out there.

**techieMoe** · 10-31-2005

Have you looked at the Doom 3 FAQ?

Long URL

**benjamin20** · 10-31-2005

ok this point may be worth concidering

on amd64 systems you may need to get the snd-ioctl32 module loaded in

now how would i load that module. how would i even get that module.

**benjamin20** · 11-01-2005

those dont seem to work. i have sound but its all metalicy.

**afroguy013** · 11-04-2005

Ok, I had this problem a while back too and I fixed it. I think this was what I did:

Go into the Doom 3 configuration file. (Should be in a hidden /.doom3 file)

Change the sound device from "Default" to "plughw:0" and make sure that it's also set to OSS rather than ALSA.

Save the changes, run doom3. If it still doesn't work, reboot and give it a try (I can't remember if I needed to reboot or not)

Good luck!

**benjamin20** · 11-05-2005

hmm, well, i do have oss running without freezing, but no sound is coming out with it. in oss, as long as i dont use dsp its normal (without sound). i am using alsa as built in. do you think i should use the module form?

**farslayer** · 11-05-2005

My sound was funky as well.. I changed the setting for the number of speakers to 2 and it sounds normal now.. Fixed my Quake 4 Sound problem the same way..

set NumberOfSpeakers 2

that Faq worked for me..

**zachtib** · 11-07-2005

i had no sound at all, until i used the command

Code:

doom3 +set s_driver oss

which interestingly enough, if i make that a shortcut on my desktop, the sound works fine, but if i but the EXACT same command into the gnome menu, the sound does not work

**benjamin20** · 11-08-2005

well i havent gotten anywhere closer with sound, exept i do know that in oss as long as i dnt use the dsp device the computer doesnt slow down, but in oss i have no sound at all. im thinking i might need to try using alsa as a moduleor just have to get a new sound card

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