Re: idsoftware games

On Fri September 29 2006 02:08 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:04 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from
idsoftware. I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it
is on the MB and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.


It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working
with these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what
king of sound card you use and if you are happy with it?

Isn't there any useful error messages if you start these games from a
terminal?

There is no error that I can see and nothing logged (unless I didn't see it
yet). The games do run fine "n" dandy (except RTCW) but there is no sound.

You might want to try ioquake3, this is the free version build from id
software's GPL code. Among other things are these sound related
features:

* OpenAL is now used for sound. Surround sound supported.
* SDL being used for input, OpenGL context management, and sound.

If you can get sound in SDL apps now, I would guess it would work with
ioquake3 too. http://www.icculus.org/quake3/

UT/2K3/2K4 use SDL and run fine and sound works.

There is a link to some Debian packages here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337937

Thanks for the links, looks promising. I'll check into that.


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