No sound in Linux

[sergio.bobillier]

Hello.

Its been a while since I last played Strikey Sisters so I'm not entirely sure which update introduced the issue but currently I have no sound. It was working perfectly fine for me until a couple of weeks ago.

Now I have no sound anywhere in the game. I went through the discussion boards and found a report saying that the volume was resetting after loosing a ball, but not for me.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Sound is working properly and the other games I have on Steam have no sound issues at all, currently its only Strikey Sisters. I have the standard sound configuration that comes by default, no plug-ins add-ons or anything else.

The game is set with Music Volune: 6 and Sound Effects Volume: 9 but even if I set them to 10 there is no sound. I don't see any options to mute/un-mute the sound. I also tried tweekng my sound settings to make sure the sound wasn't going to the HDMI device or something but nothing, no sound.

Something that strikes me odd is the fact that Strikey Sisters is not showing up in the sound settings window, so its as if the game is not sending anything to the sound system. Chrome, Steam and the other games do show up there.

If you need more information please let me know.

[Dani]

Ok, I'll take a look now.

[Dani]

You're right, there is no sound, at least in my case (Ubuntu 14.04). I'm going to update the OS to 16.04 before fixing this, because I just noticed that GMS 2 now only supports 16.04 LTS. After that, I'll try to find what's happening with the audio.

But, for now, ensure you have the correct OpenAL libraries installed:

sudo apt-get install libopenal1

Maybe you'll have to include the correct audio library manually into the "lib" folder of the game until I fix this.

[charte1982]

Hola Dani, te contacte por correo electronico con el mismo problema con el sonido y la misma version de Ubuntu. He instalado las bibliotecas OpenAL que comentas (libopenal1) desde el terminal aunque me advertia "llibopenal1 ya está en su versión más reciente (1:1.16.0-3).
Los paquetes indicados a continuación se instalaron de forma automática y ya no son necesarios.
amule-common amule-utils libcrypto++9v5 libupnp6 ttf-dejavu-core".
Tambien he incluido la biblioteca de audio en la carpeta "lib" del juego y sigue sin reproducirse ningun sonido.
Un saludo.

[Dani]

Regarding sound, I had to install this:

sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev

But now the game freezes on exit. I'll have to contact GameMaker devs, because I really don't have any control on how GMS exports the game to Linux.

[Lazyleen]

In my case, since I also play this game only casually, it seems to help to install the

libopenal-dev

package in addition to the library package

libopenal1

package. These packages could be named differently if using other OS than Debian/Ubuntu by the way.

But it is strange though that you need the developers package for this. Could it be that you forgot to trim some dependencies while working with/switching to openal?

[Dani]

@Lazyla: I can't control how the Linux build is made, GMS does it automatically. I also don't understand why players need to install dev libraries, so I asked GameMaker Studio developer this same question, but I didn't get a reply yet. I'll keep you informed.

But I have a question for you: is the game freezing on exit for you?

[Splintercat]

Linux Mint 18.3 here. I also had to install libopenal-dev to get sound back. (I already had libopenal1 installed. )

Sound went away for me just in the last version update or so.

I can confirm that the game freezes for me on exit as well. At least when I try to close the game by pressing the close window button in windowed mode.

[SeveredinTwain]

I have had this same issue as well, I just purchased the game and I am running ubuntu 18.04. No audio and I have installed both the openal1 and dev libraries as suggested above, I still have no sound. I hate to have to return this if it doesn't work.

[Kulma]

Okay I experienced the same problem with Ubuntu 18.04 and checked that I had libopenal1 installed. Even installed libopenal:i386 to be sure but it seems that this game is x86_64 so that wasn't the issue.

It turned out to be something more simple: the game tries to find "libopenal.so" instead of "libopenal.so.1".

I tried something bit crude:

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 "/home/share/steam/steamapps/common/Strikey Sisters/lib/libopenal.so"

And boom we have sound!

[SeveredinTwain]

@Kulma I think you might be on to something, unfortunately I couldn't make your quick fix work on my instance of 18.04 though. Interestingly when I drilled into the same /lib folder that you indicated I did not find any mention of libopenal.so to begin with, there wasn't any audio library listed at all. I created the simlink as you had listed and restarted Steam but still no sound.

[Kulma]

Publicado originalmente por SeveredinTwain:

@Kulma I think you might be on to something, unfortunately I couldn't make your quick fix work on my instance of 18.04 though. Interestingly when I drilled into the same /lib folder that you indicated I did not find any mention of libopenal.so to begin with, there wasn't any audio library listed at all. I created the simlink as you had listed and restarted Steam but still no sound.

Sorry if this sounds redundant but make sure you have "libopenal1" version 1:1.18.2-2 installed with files:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1.18.2

Installation from terminal:

sudo apt-get install libopenal1

I have clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS the tricks mentioned earlier were all I neede to do to get the sound work.

[SeveredinTwain]

Yeah, I just clean installed Kubuntu 18.04 and I do in fact have both of those files in my library file in /usr.

[Kulma]

Publicado originalmente por SeveredinTwain:

Yeah, I just clean installed Kubuntu 18.04 and I do in fact have both of those files in my library file in /usr.

Okay, good that you have the openal installed.

Next part is the target as i'm keeping cross distribution steam library file in "/home/share/steam" and I presume that you have located the right instance of your local game installation destination.

You can check what the problem actually is by starting steam from a terminal (or konsole in your case) and looking the steam log output. I noticed that that the game complained something along the lines of "Couldn't load libopenal.so!" when I launched it which is where I got the idea to try the linking in the first place.

While I didn't try the linking should also work straight to the "/usr/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu" path. It would be more elegant option but i'm not sure if package updates are capable of wiping the link I tried the local lib file first.

One major difference we have here is that I'm using the official Gnome shell based 18.04 LTS and the different desktop distributions are separate entities there are differences between beyond the desktop environment.

And finally is of course the method you installed steam. If you are using some kind of snadboxing approach like snap or flatpak my tips won't work at all.

[RuhtraX_Lynx]

Publicado originalmente por Kulma:

Okay I experienced the same problem with Ubuntu 18.04 and checked that I had libopenal1 installed. Even installed libopenal:i386 to be sure but it seems that this game is x86_64 so that wasn't the issue.

It turned out to be something more simple: the game tries to find "libopenal.so" instead of "libopenal.so.1".

I tried something bit crude:

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 "/home/share/steam/steamapps/common/Strikey Sisters/lib/libopenal.so"

And boom we have sound!

That worked for me, thanks!
The game freezes when exiting, but other than that it's working fine

[Kulma]

Publicado originalmente por RuhtraX_Lynx:

That worked for me, thanks!
The game freezes when exiting, but other than that it's working fine

No problem.

The game doesn't freeze nor crash for me on exit, so I have no idea what's going on there. Probably looking the terminal output might give some insignts about it.

The weird thing is that while Bot Vice is older release than Strikiey Sisters it has no similiar issues while seemingly using the same game engine.