UT2004 sound placement is wrong

[gnychis]

Hey all,

I need some help with my UT2004 setup. The game runs *so* smoothely on my system. My only complaint is the sound. I can be on one side of a map, and an opponent can be clear across the other side of the map, and when he double jumps or dodges, his "grunts" or character sounds come through just as loud as if he was actually right next to me. This makes it very hard for me to place the location of an opponent which is bad!

I was wondering if anyone has had sound placement problems and how to fix them??
Thanks!
George

[gnychis]

i don't know if this helps...

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hedpe@monster hedpe $ cat ~/.asoundrc 
pcm.intel8x0 {
        type hw
        card 0
}

ctl.intel8x0 {
        type hw
        card 0
}

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hedpe@monster hedpe $ cat ~/.openalrc 
(define speaker-num 2)
(define devices '(alsa))
(define alsa-out-device "hw:0,0")
(define alsa-in-device "hw:0,0")

[grenouille]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-30 ... ight-.html

same problem for me, didn't find a solution yet

[gnychis]

grenouille: can you give me some of your system specs?

I am using the onboard sound... abit ic7-max3.... snd-intel8x0 module

I even went as far as to post the bug on icculus.org ... they are the people who ported UT2004 for linux
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2248

If you reply to my bug report that you have the same problem, give them your system specs... then we may be able to speed up this process and get the bug some notice!

Thanks bud,
George

[grenouille]

I've got a nforce2 mobo but I'm not using the onboard soundcard. I use an audigy2.
I'll go and answer to your bugreport.

[grenouille]

edit: nvm I found out how to put an answer to the bugreport xD

[.:deadhead:.]

can you post here how do you solve the problem?

[grenouille]

I didn't mean to answer the problem but the report :X

[gnychis]

thanks for responding to my report, hopefully it'll get fixed quicker

deadhead: do you also have this same problem? If so i strongly suggest following my link to the bug report, posting your system specs, and saying that you also encounter this problem so we can get it fixed

[nuke235]

Are you using the kernel alsa driver? I find restarting alsa before playing the game solves alot of problems..............at a console as root type: /etc/init.d/alsasound restart.

[gnychis]

I am using the kernel driver, I will try that, thanks for the response

[grenouille]

I tried but nothing changes for me

[gnychis]

no change for me either. Someone on another forum suggested that footstep/dodge/doublejump sound level is just too high for us, and they said you can customize the sound level of everything.

I can't find anywhere for customizing sound levesl though...

[grenouille]

neither can I

[grenouille]

These are my audio settings


[ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]
UseEAX=False
Use3DSound=False
UseDefaultDriver=True
CompatibilityMode=False
MaxEAXVersion=255
UsePrecache=False
ReverseStereo=False
Channels=32
MusicVolume=0.000000
AmbientVolume=0.000000
SoundVolume=0.200000
VoiceVolume=4.000000
VolumeScaleRec=0.100000
DopplerFactor=1.000000
Rolloff=0.500000
TimeBetweenHWUpdates=15.000000
DisablePitch=False
LowQualitySound=False
UseVoIP=False
UseVAD=False
UseSpatializedVoice=False
SpatializedVoiceRadius=100000.000000
EnhancedDenoiser=False
LocalZOffset=0.000000

[grenouille]

still no news?

[r0shi]

i was having the same problem till i updated openal. http://www.openal.org/
after u install make sure u update the symbolic link in the ut2004 folder.

[gnychis]

shouldn't "emerge" keep us updated with the newest version of openal?

If not, I will try a manual update of it

[r0shi]

well, even if it does u still have to update the symbolic link.

[grenouille]

I symlinked but it didn't solve the problem for me.

The openal in portage seem old though.

[gnychis]

what is the symbolic link that you are talking of updating specfically?

[grenouille]

ln the openal and sdl from /usr/lib to /opt/ut2004/System openal and sdl

[grenouille]

cd /opt/ut2004/System
mv openal.so openal.orig
mv libSDL-1.2.so.0 libSDL-1.2.so.0.orig
ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so openal.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 libSDL-1.2.so.0

[gnychis]

The problem went away for me!! It wasn't the openal link for sure because I never ended up linking

So its time for me to help you guys solve the problem.

So what I did is a disabled ALSA in the kernel, i completely took all of my alsa out of the kernel

I then unmerged every single piece of alsa on my system and emerged everything ALSA with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and put ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" to emerge alsa-driver
I put "snd-intel8x0" in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

after that i deleted my ~/.asoundrc file rebooted and it fixed everything!

Try this out grenouille, I want to get it working for you also before I add a [SOLVED] to the post topic so that we know EXACTLY what solved the problem

I would say, as a first step, try deleting your ~/.asoundrc file, relogin and try it then

if that doesn't work, try unmerging and emerging everything with "~x86"

let me know!
George

[grenouille]

wah! I'll try this as soon as I'm home!!! (this noon or tonight)

If it works you'll become one of my heroes