audio problems on linux

[fabi123]

I had audio problems on linux. I am running Ubuntu 21.04.
I was able to fix them by switching out the included openal.so's for newer ones from my system.

It would be nice if this game got an extra update for switching out these librarys, but until then I'll leave this note for future generations. But idk if this would break support for Ubuntu 14.04.

[wulfgang]

I am on Manjaro Linux and I also had to replace the libogg.so to get the sound working.

[Mitsukuni]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. Where can I get those files to replace?

[fabi123]

On my system (Ubuntu 21.10) it's located at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1, so you need to run

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 <steam library folder>/steamapps/common/Transport\ Fever/libopenal.so

<steam library folder> is by default ~/.steam/steam

[Mitsukuni]

Thanks for the reply.

That directory doesn't exist on my system, however I was able to pull libogg.so and libogg.so.0 files from /usr/lib/ and the sound is working now. I guess it's different for Arch-based distros.

Anyway, have a nice day.

[IRG008]

Hi There, ive had the same Problem on my Framework running Fedora (36 i believe). For me it was a little different again, so i want to add my experience in case others have it in the future too: for me it were the libogg.so.0 and lib.ogg.so.0.8.5 for me located in /usr/lib64/ that i had to link (using the very helpful command posted earlier) into my transport fever game files in the steam library.

Note, that i had to delete the existing files, before being able to link the new ones in.

Also note, that you have to be root to actually see all your files in /usr/lib64/ using the "ls" command, otherwise i only got shown some files, excluded the necessesary ones named earlier.

Hope this helps someone in the future too like the previous comments helped me ;)

[Demonic]

I had the same bug on Manjaro KDE.
Thank you, pals!

[Ultimator]

I tried the solution too. First it did not work for me but when i chaged to windowed mode I can here the menu music ... strange but seems to work.

[jhughes]

OK .. in the latest Nobara Linux 40 (and also Fedora 40), it now uses libopenal.so.1.23.1 .. however in the linux steam binaries for Linux, libopenal.so.1.22.2 is included. this required me to do the following to get sound working.

1. Go to the install directory for TP2 .. if you right click on it in the Steam App, you can go to Porperties, then select installed files. In that tab, click browse. This will open the directory in your default file browser. You can copy the path from that and in a terminal do:

cd <installed_path>

Note: use your actual path .. for me it was /home/jhughes/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Transport Fever 2.

Note2: You may need to quote spaces, so you may also need quotation marks arounf Transport Fever 2

2. Once in the directory, make sure you have a mismatch.

ll | grep libopenal 

and

ll /usr/lib64/ | grep libopenal 

If those 2 results match .. you are good and this is not your issues. If the don't match then do this:

sudo rm libopenal*
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libopenal* .

3. Repeat the two ll commands in step 2 and validate your two directories now contain the same libopenal files. If so, sound should again work.

If /when steam validates the binaries, you may need to repeat this. Also, if/when a new version of openal.so gets installed, you will need to manually link the files if there is a mismatch.