No sound in games

English Multimedia
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The sound works in same games including Valve titles, but usually I get no sound (The Swapper, Cat Lady, Amnesia, Papers, Please, Hotline Miami, Cities Skylines). I have ‘alsa-plugins-pulse’ and ‘alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit’ installed.
Also applies to games I run via Wine.

I still haven’t figured out how to solve all my sound issues, audio volume is much lower than on Windows and I only can listen modern “loudness war era” records on comfortable levels. Alsamixer is at 100, OS volume is at 100% in Audio Mixer and my default audio device is** USB Audio Codec**… I want to output to my external DAC, but I have no idea how that’s possible.
I’ve installed Pavucontrol, but that didn’t help much.

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IMHO the Multimedia (sub)forum is the better place for this. Shall I move it there?

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Please do—

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Moved from Applications.

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There are some games that give me also sound problems.
One of them is “Metro”
Solution for me was to add ‘SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa %command%’ to the launch options of the game.
But I don’t know if this works for your games

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The Metro series is known to have issues with sound on Linux. Are you sure that I don’t have to put a hyphen (-) before that launch options?

System information from steam, maybe this helps to solve this issue:

Processor Information: 
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel 
    CPU Family:  0x6 
    CPU Model:  0x3c 
    CPU Stepping:  0x3 
    CPU Type:  0x0 
    Speed:  3900 Mhz 
    8 logical processors 
    4 physical processors 
    HyperThreading:  Supported 
    FCMOV:  Supported 
    SSE2:  Supported 
    SSE3:  Supported 
    SSSE3:  Supported 
    SSE4a:  Unsupported 
    SSE41:  Supported 
    SSE42:  Supported 
     
     
Operating System Version: 
    "openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)" (64 bit) 
    Kernel Name:  Linux 
    Kernel Version:  3.16.7-24-desktop 
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation 
    X Server Release:  11601000 
    X Window Manager:  Xfwm4 
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release_2015-06-12 
     
Video Card: 
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 780 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 
 
    Driver Version:  4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.93 
    OpenGL Version: 4.4 
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel 
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 144 Hz 
    VendorID:  0x10de 
    DeviceID:  0x100a 
    Number of Monitors:  1 
    Number of Video Cards Not Detected 
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080 
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080 
    Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.73"  (23.94" diag) 
                                            53.1cm x 29.8cm  (60.8cm diag) 
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x 
    Primary VRAM: 3072 MB 
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x  
     
Sound card: 
    Audio device: USB Mixer 
     
Memory: 
    RAM:  16016 Mb 
     
     
Recent Failure Reports: 
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Solved: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/509789-The-correct-audio-device-to-use-issues-with-low-volume?p=2732990#post2732990