Mic on L4D2 Just Randomly Stops Working

steamclosed AudioDistro Family: FedoraMOVED: Source-1-Games

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5202 · opened 2017-10-10 by buckwangs · updated 2019-07-18 · 2 comments · github

Bbuckwangs 2017-10-10 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Latest (not beta)
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 26 (up to date)
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Randomly at some point, my mic just stops working in Left 4 Dead 2. This was not a problem until very recently. It's quite upsetting as voice is a pretty big deal in the game and just losing it out of nowhere sucks quite a lot. I don't know the steps to reproduce it but lately it's pretty reliably just failing on me out of nowhere. Are there any logs or something I can do to figure out what's going on?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-10-10 github

Hello @buckwangs, L4D2 should be using OpenAL for voice chat and the most recent game update was 2 months ago. If it was known good in this time, then it hints that a system change may be involved.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-10-10 github

Let's track this in the Source-1-Games issue tracker at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2328.

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