New Patch is HERE (August 30th!!) Feedback needed for final release.

[torturedutopian]

Hi !

Also using Ubuntu 9.10 AMD 64 & Penumbra collection.

I found a workaround :

- install pulseaudio-utils that contain "padsp" (oss -> pulseaudio wrapper)
- edit the Penumbra shortcuts and add "padsp" before the executables paths
- choose OSS audio output (so it needs the update)

Cheers !

[Urkle]

building your own, or using your distributions "openal" driver instead of the distributed openal driver should also help with that. Just make sure it's the OpenAL-soft openAL implementation.

This is the Mess I am dealing with is trying to get openal-soft compiled cleanly enough so that i will work with a variety of distributions so it won't blow up. Either that or I stop distributin Openal and REQUIRE the use of the distribution version (This looks like what Regnum Online is doing for their linux builds)

[torturedutopian]

Thanks for replying. Well, I have no clue. Maybe the guy from Icculus could give you a piece of advice about that ?

I wonder to what extent it is a good idea to statically link important libs. Couldn't you use the local one if available / more recent that the provided one ?

[torturedutopian]

Hmm, I just figured out that Sacred Gold was also affected by the same issue in Ubuntu 9.10.
I have to disable the "libopenal" supplied with the game to force using the one build into Ubuntu, otherwise the sound is "trashed" once in a while.

According to you, who is at fault here ? What should be changed / fixed ? Who should I report this bug to ?

Cheers :-)

[DigitalPioneer]

So what's the status here? Did you ever get PulseAudio support working? I hope so, because if so, you can use my 5.1 surround sound.

[torturedutopian]

Hmm, actually, just disabling openal and using the "native" one (from the distro) doesn't work. It worked because I used some ppa with some openal/alsa/pulse... updates.

Anyway, with penumbra I can use padsp (not with sacred).

[torturedutopian]

One can install this openal version (works with ubuntu) for work around this problem (you have to disable the openal provided with the game) :

http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/o/openal...1_i386.deb
or http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/o/openal..._amd64.deb

works with sacred gold too

[Gert]

Wait until the end of the weekend I'll have updated patches for Collection and individual games

Is there any chance to know which weekend it will be? I mean I already played through all three parts, but it would be nice to do it again without graphical glitches.
Best
Gert

[Solipse]

Here some help for ubuntu users, all infos on this thread seem obsolete, dead links etc...

After moving libopenal files in Overture/lib and BlackPlague/lib :
So check this ppa : https://launchpad.net/~ibuclaw/+archive/ibuclaw
Or add it directly with this command :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ibuclaw/ibuclaw

Then update :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Here sound should be fixed now !

By the way nice game.
But it's quite freaking that my nvidia geforce 200 diplays as much fps in top quality than my ATI 4870 o_O...
However only slowdowns, no glitches.
Again it would be nice to have access to all versions Win, Lin and Mac for one payment !

[Urkle]

A new patch has been released.

http://frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3259.html