[fixed itself™] warzone2100: very low sound

Soukyuu · 2016-02-20 15:35:59

It's definitely there, but I have to set my volume to 70% to faintly hear it. Both plasma-pa and pavucontrol report that warzone2100 is playing at full volume and the in-game config is set to 100% as well.
It's still about 40db quieter than everything else, resulting in any notifications blowing my ears. Also, it seems to be impossible to redirect the sound output between devices, the dropdown menu in pavucontrol shows all the devices, but selecting one doesn't do anything. It still reverts to the device connected to the rear panel, even though it's actually playing through the headphones connected at the front. Only having the rear device connected doesn't change the volume issue.

Here's my current default.pa (commented out lines removed)

.fail

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
load-module module-switch-on-port-available

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif

### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif

.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif

### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-role-cork

### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

client.conf only has "respawn=no" and daemon.conf has "flat-volumes=no" differing from the default values. The system is up to date.

I saw someone mentioning editing /etc/openal/alsoft.conf and putting

drivers=pulse,alsa

in it, but that was for fixing non-working sound, so it doesn't help in my case (tried it anyway).

Any idea how to get it to play at REAL full volume?

edit: I just tried it and it seems the problem is gone - no idea what caused it or what fixed it, but the sound is back to how it's used to bo.

Last edited by Soukyuu (2016-05-12 16:19:47)

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#1 2016-02-20 15:35:59

[fixed itself™] warzone2100: very low sound

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