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NPC voices sound like chipmunks #1957

Closed FreeBooteR69 closed 2 months ago

FreeBooteR69 commented 11 years ago

I use Alsa/kmix and when running Steam with:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa AUDIODEV=hw:0,0

When running Half-Life the NPC voices sound sped up and i can't make out what they are saying.

alfred-valve commented 11 years ago

Can you post your hardware details please

FreeBooteR69 commented 11 years ago

Processor Information: Vendor: AuthenticAMD Speed: 3300 Mhz 6 logical processors 6 physical processors HyperThreading: Unsupported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Unsupported SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information: Network Speed:

Operating System Version: "Arch Linux" (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 3.7.5-1-ARCH X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server release: 11302000

Video Card: Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.18
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x1200
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1200
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Primary Display Size: 20.39" x 12.76"  (24.02" diag)
                                        51.8cm x 32.4cm  (61.0cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card: Audio device: VIA VT2020

Memory: RAM: 7988 Mb

Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Microphone: Not set Total Hard Disk Space Available: 918856 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 227707 Mb

unbridledExuberance commented 11 years ago

I can confirm this issue on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.

Using pulseaudio, I get no sound whatsoever. EDIT: Turns out the whole problem with pulseaudio is that source engine games set their volume to 0 when you start them for the first time (no seriously, that's the whole problem). Switching workspaces out of the app, then going to sound settings and turning the application's volume up to max fixes it.

Using ALSA, I get sound effects but no music, voices are played comically fast, and the game freezes when quitting and needs to be pkill'd.

These results are the same whether I launch from the terminal or from steam.

shawns-valve commented 2 months ago

Closing due to age. Please reopen / create a new issue if this still occurs with the 25th anniversary update (December 2023 Steam build) on a current Linux distribution.