Ut2003 sound problem

RickDB · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 11:30 pm Post subject: Ut2003 sound problem

When i run ut2003 the sound is ok but when my cpu is maxed (2 or 3 bots near me) the sound is decreasing in quality(sounds like crap).
And i have tried al sound options in ut2003 but nothing fixed it

, kmix is at 70% and i only have this problem with gen2( redhat mandrake did not have this problem)
I am using alsa and i have the cmipci driver, any idea?

bung-foo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 146

read this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19240

about half way down you'll find some suggestions to try.

Good luck

Bung-Foo

RickDB · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:46 am Post subject:

Ah thx i will try that

Just one question: do i need to edit the openal settins or something or does it just work in the fly?

bung-foo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 146

in my home directory I have .openalrc with a single line of text
(define devices '(emu10k1))

Also, installing the patches really improved performance for me. Although I had to install them manually cause the updater couldn't find my install even though it was installed in the default directory.

Bung-Foo

elboricua · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:58 am Post subject:

RickDB · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 1:15 am Post subject:

Thanks for the fast response, the patches did really help to improve my framerate(from 50 to 60)

But now i get this error while compiling openal:

root@192 distfiles # emerge openal
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/openal-20020127 to /
>>> md5 ;-)

openal-20020127.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking openal-20020127.tar.gz
>>> Source unpacked.
esd
sdl
alsa
arts
mpeg
oggvorbis
WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.

WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
WARNING: `acconfig.h':

WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
WARNING: [Define if a function `main' is needed.])

WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
WARNING: documentation.
autoheader-2.53a: missing template: VORBIS_SUPPORT
./configure: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
./configure: line 10: `' ECHO_T=' ' ;;'

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

root@192 distfiles #

Vorbis support should be in there i think, any ideas?

RickDB · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 8:23 pm Post subject:

Ok installed openal(ebuild was fixed) and sdl-mixer but the sound is still crappy:

This are the ut2003.ini settings(i turned on precache ot see if that helped the rest is standard, )
Again the sound was great with mandrake 9 suse 8 and RH8 so this is clearly a gentoo only problem(something with alsa i think).

[ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]
UseEAX=True
Use3DSound=True
UseDefaultDriver=True
CompatibilityMode=True
UsePrecache=True
ReverseStereo=false
Channels=32
MusicVolume=0.100000
AmbientVolume=0.300000
SoundVolume=1.000000
DopplerFactor=1.000000
Rolloff=0.500000
TimeBetweenHWUpdates=15.000000
DisablePitch=False
LowQualitySound=False

RickDB · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 2:55 pm Post subject:

Does anyone have any ideas???
Because the sound sounds like it came out of an old 30 year old radio :evil:

TGL · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 1:04 am Post subject:

TGL · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 1:26 am Post subject:

After re-reading my post, I've seen that the only thing I hadn't tried yet to modify was the openal device. Switching to