TF2: Voice chat outbound not working when server has "sv_use_steam_voice 0" set

steamclosed MOVED: Team Fortress 2reviewed

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#261 · opened 2012-12-22 by rio-steam · updated 2013-02-15 · 2 comments · github

Rrio-steam 2012-12-22 github

I have already posted this issue in the beta forum a while ago now but thought it would be a good idea to post it in the bug tracker as well.

Outbound voice in game does not work when the server being played on is using "sv_use_steam_voice 0". No errors appear in either the console or command line.

Steps to reproduce this issue:

Open the console and enter in sv_use_steam_voice 0. This can be done either in a locally hosted game or in the main menu for TF2
Go to voice chat options and test microphone using the voice chat tester. Alternatively if in a match you can open up the console and enter in voice_loopback 1 to test the microphone.

-Switch between sv_use_steam_voice 0 and sv_use_steam_voice 1 via the console. Outbound voice works when 1 is set. Outbound voice stops working when 0 is set.

System Information:

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3415 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 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:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (32 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-35-generic-pae
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11103000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!

Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.09
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 119 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x1201
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.04" x 11.26"  (22.95" diag)
                                        50.9cm x 28.6cm  (58.3cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC892

Memory:
RAM: 8072 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 113858 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 87864 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

AAzelphur 2013-02-14 github

I'm also getting this bug, it's very easy to reproduce, simply set sv_use_steam_voice 0 on the server and attempt to use the "Test Microphone" button in the voice tab of TF2. According to pavucontrol TF2 no longer connects to pulseaudio for recording at all when steam voice is off.

Quite annoying for my server, I either have to annoy the players by enabling steam voice, which disables inputfromfile, or disabling steam voice, which stops Linux users from speaking.

Jjorgenpt 2013-02-15 github

Issue transferred to ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games#33.

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