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poppyfields

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Registered: 2012-03-04

Posts: 7

TF2 crashes 1-10 minutes into game - maybe ALSA problem?

For past 3 months TF2 crashes repeatedly. This can happen almost immediately or after 10 minutes of play. This seems to have started after I messed around with ALSA so this is why I suspect it. Also always the error report contains:
"ALSA lib pcm.c:7339:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred" for which I cannot find any solution on the web, despite a few reported problems. I tried resetting ALSA, deleated .asoundrc and in /etc but this has not helped. The rest of the error is below:

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0_client)
ALSA lib pcm.c:7339:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
/home/mike/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Team Fortress 2/hl2.sh: line 67:  7649 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"
Game removed: AppID 440 "Team Fortress 2", ProcID 7649

I do not have pulseaudio installed.
System: Intel i5,  HD4000

Any advice appreciated.

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: TF2 crashes 1-10 minutes into game - maybe ALSA problem?

Use code tags. Increase the period/buffer size (for example period_size 1024; buffer_size 4096; if it does not work double it). To get buffer and period sizes run speaker-test.

Last edited by emeres (2014-05-06 20:10:39)