Hey guys, I need a few testers. This is a new guide on how to fix the underrun problem many people are having. Check the how-to out and leave comments here. I'll be sure to come back and try to answer as many questions as possible.
[How to] Fix WINE underrun occurred problem
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Very nice guide!
Thank you for taking the time to help us Linux gamers with this "buffer underrun" problem.
It was driving me nuts and I couldn't find anything usefull to help me. someone on the PlayOnLinux forum showed me a similar trick.
I actually did the changes in my user folder so it wouldn't affect the system as a whole. But I havn't confirmed if the settings stick or are re-set after reboot.
I'll try it your way next.
By the way, I would put the screenshots after the steps so readers can see how it should look after they try it.
Thank you for taking the time to help us Linux gamers with this "buffer underrun" problem.
It was driving me nuts and I couldn't find anything usefull to help me. someone on the PlayOnLinux forum showed me a similar trick.
I actually did the changes in my user folder so it wouldn't affect the system as a whole. But I havn't confirmed if the settings stick or are re-set after reboot.
I'll try it your way next.
By the way, I would put the screenshots after the steps so readers can see how it should look after they try it.
Yea, it was driving me nuts too, haha.
PulseAudio most of the time works at the user-level... I just edited the /etc/pulse/default.pa because:
- If I add more users in my computer, it will pick that file automatically, which means less copy/pasting and less managing if I add new cards
- I'm planning a new concept like PoL, but lighter. In no way I'm planning to replace PlayOnLinux, more like, I want to compliment it with new workflow
I just recommend that people should reboot their machines, audio in linux is a bit t
Thats perfect.
Oh, I didn't know killall pulseaudio would be quicker.
I posted your tutorial on the PlayOnLinux forum as well.
I've seen many posts about this exact problem.
Oh, I didn't know killall pulseaudio would be quicker.
I posted your tutorial on the PlayOnLinux forum as well.
I've seen many posts about this exact problem.
Now that I'm in Mint 16 64-bit, I have only seen the ALSA "buffer underrun" error.
I was playing Crysis Warhead and the audio started getting crackly and fast. So I saved, closed it and ran Crysis again. After that everything has been fine.
Strange huh?
Even as I have tested a few games, I havn't noticed the "buffer underrun" errors at all...
I was playing Crysis Warhead and the audio started getting crackly and fast. So I saved, closed it and ran Crysis again. After that everything has been fine.
Strange huh?
Even as I have tested a few games, I havn't noticed the "buffer underrun" errors at all...
Hey booman, I just saw this reply but yea. I haven't seen any problems with my How-To yet.
Sometimes if it gets a bit choppy, as in there's some noises that shouldn't be there. Try to give a higher priority to the game, in KDE you can use ksysguard, right click the process and set priority
Sometimes if it gets a bit choppy, as in there's some noises that shouldn't be there. Try to give a higher priority to the game, in KDE you can use ksysguard, right click the process and set priority
I've thought up of a solution after spending a few hours yesterday researching but, I'm gonna try reporting the problem first to see what the developers have to say.
It doesn't really bother me that much that I can't record, the one video I did for astebreed game was an experiment that worked but not for long when I launched Skyrim.
Hello. First of all thanks a lot for the fix for the underrun error however I've come to report something not working in the hope that you (or anyone else) can tell me how to sort it. Bear in mind I'm quite a linux newbie.
My problem is that I can't play sound through an HDMI anymore. I cannot select the device from sound options because after applying the fix in your guide all the gui sound options are greyed out. I planned on adding a line in default.pa specifying my TV's device ID but the output of
is the same when the HDMI is plugged in:
How can I send sound through my HDMI without reverting the fix for alsa underrrun?
My problem is that I can't play sound through an HDMI anymore. I cannot select the device from sound options because after applying the fix in your guide all the gui sound options are greyed out. I planned on adding a line in default.pa specifying my TV's device ID but the output of
Code:
cat /proc/asound/cards
Code:
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xc2510000 irq 44How can I send sound through my HDMI without reverting the fix for alsa underrrun?
I've been busy lately, so I haven't made any progress with my pet project, or well anything related to linux gaming.
However, I decided to downgrade my main OS (Debian unstable). I'm now using Debian (Wheezy) stable. The experience has been pretty neat, since I have /home in another partition (like any rational person would) all I had to do is install libraries and libraries and libraries, jesus, so many libraries to install in both amd64 and i386. I had problems installing Steam, mostly because Steam was compiled against a newer version of libc6 and I didn't want to tamper with it in any way. (Thankfully I found a solution)
One thing I noticed, which for me has been a VERY important: PulseAudio older version doesn't get distorted audio. I'm using PulseAudio 2.0:
# david at debianbox in ~/Downloads [20:58:39]
$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 2.0
And I've yet to run into an underrun. In fact, I have run into an underrun but it maintains the audio normal. Meaning, somewhere someone screwed up something in the newer versions of PulseAudio.
I just wanted to say this, because it's quite relevant to those who want to do linux gaming peacefully.
To those who want to know what i've been up to: (shameless plug) A Taste of Slackware (14.1) I used it extensively but... the whole thing of enabling multilib was a real deal breaker. I would like to argue that Slackware is violating its own KISS philosophy... but alas, this ain't the thread for it. I'll also talk about why I did the downgrade later on.
However, I decided to downgrade my main OS (Debian unstable). I'm now using Debian (Wheezy) stable. The experience has been pretty neat, since I have /home in another partition (like any rational person would) all I had to do is install libraries and libraries and libraries, jesus, so many libraries to install in both amd64 and i386. I had problems installing Steam, mostly because Steam was compiled against a newer version of libc6 and I didn't want to tamper with it in any way. (Thankfully I found a solution)
One thing I noticed, which for me has been a VERY important: PulseAudio older version doesn't get distorted audio. I'm using PulseAudio 2.0:
# david at debianbox in ~/Downloads [20:58:39]
$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 2.0
And I've yet to run into an underrun. In fact, I have run into an underrun but it maintains the audio normal. Meaning, somewhere someone screwed up something in the newer versions of PulseAudio.
I just wanted to say this, because it's quite relevant to those who want to do linux gaming peacefully.
To those who want to know what i've been up to: (shameless plug) A Taste of Slackware (14.1) I used it extensively but... the whole thing of enabling multilib was a real deal breaker. I would like to argue that Slackware is violating its own KISS philosophy... but alas, this ain't the thread for it. I'll also talk about why I did the downgrade later on.
Yea, in a rolling release distro PulseAudio 5.0 is the newest (I think it also received some updates too while I was on Debian unstable). I'm using Debian stable which contains old libraries and applications.
I did tweak default fragment size, it never did any good with PA 4 or 5.
I would say that if users purely want just gaming, either start tweaking the fragment size (which has never worked for me) or downgrade PulseAudio, honestly unless you are looking for new features it's a pretty neat idea itself, you won't even do the dmix how-to, which is a big plus.
I do bring it because I heard a rumor that downgrading PA gets rid of the underrun problems. I was pretty skeptic about it, but it works.
I did tweak default fragment size, it never did any good with PA 4 or 5.
I would say that if users purely want just gaming, either start tweaking the fragment size (which has never worked for me) or downgrade PulseAudio, honestly unless you are looking for new features it's a pretty neat idea itself, you won't even do the dmix how-to, which is a big plus.
I do bring it because I heard a rumor that downgrading PA gets rid of the underrun problems. I was pretty skeptic about it, but it works.
What are the steps for downgrading?
Can you simply download a deb or tar file from pulseaudio website? or does it require some terminal intervention?
... for new users of course
Terminal intervention... yep. I don't think it's hard to compile older version of PulseAudio in newer systems. I think what I really have to look at is the init script for user per session.
In Debian and its friends, just use apt-get to place the undesired package on 'hold'. Sid users should be familiar with this, because it's done fairly often while waiting for the moving target to settle down:
To take it off hold:
To see what packages are on hold:
In Gentoo, you would have to mask the package in package.mask, or emerge --exclude<package> for a one time result.
Code:
echo package hold|dpkg --set-selectionsTo take it off hold:
Code:
echo package install|dpkg --set-selectionsTo see what packages are on hold:
Code:
dpkg --get-selections | grep holdIn Gentoo, you would have to mask the package in package.mask, or emerge --exclude<package> for a one time result.
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