No sound in The Cave after first launch

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1911 · opened 2013-02-20 by ghost · updated 2017-04-11 · 7 comments · github

?ghost 2013-02-20 github

As the title states, I've found that after first launch The Cave will no longer have any sound on subsequent launches.

This is reproducible for me by simply restarting Steam. If I restart Steam and launch The Cave, sound works no problem. In fact if you never go past the menu screen and exit the game the sound will keep working on re-launch.

However, once I have loaded an actual level of the game and then save and quit, sound is dead on any subsequent start-ups of the game until Steam client is restarted.

I can't see any errors of any kind in terminal except the usual Steam GTK and breakpad messages :S

Also having Steam Runtime enabled or disabled makes no difference, it works exactly the same.

My sys-info:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 2500 Mhz
    2 logical processors
    2 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Unsupported
    SSE42:  Unsupported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    "Arch Linux" (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.7.9-1-ARCH
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11302000
    X Window Manager:  KWin
    Steam Runtime Version:  <Runtime enabled>

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 460/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:  0xe22
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1680 x 1050
    Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
    Primary Display Size: 17.05" x 10.67"  (20.08" diag)
                                            43.3cm x 27.1cm  (51.0cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 768 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC889A

Memory:
    RAM:  3013 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_AU.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  341760 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  181130 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

This is my first report on GitHub, just let me know if I've missed anything.

Bbdeen-valve maintainer 2013-02-20 github

@ElderSnake Is this the only game that does this? Or are you seeing it with other games that Steam manages?

?ghost 2013-02-20 github

@bdeen-valve Only this game so far. It may well be something that only Double-Fine can fix in their game, though it's odd that a restart of the actual Steam Client fixes the issue, albeit temporarily.

Uurkle 2013-02-22 github

There are some known issues with sound that we should have resolved.. please opt-into the linuxbeta beta channel and test the binary there.. the password is p3nguin and please let me know if it fixes things.

Aalkazar 2013-02-22 github

I had the same issue and opting into the linux beta fixed it.

?ghost 2013-02-23 github

In my The Cave properties I can't even see a Beta tab anymore :S

Nevertheless though, perhaps I've somehow been auto-opted in or something... I had an update to The Cave yesterday and it seems the issue is indeed fixed :D

Thanks a lot. If it crops up again I'll be sure to let you know.

Uurkle 2013-02-23 github

I had the beta pushed live yesterday as I received a number of positive responses that it solved the issue

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-04-11 github

Closing per the last comment.

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