doom 3 sound crackling

**Beire** · February 25th, 2005

Hi,

Today i installed doom 3 on my ubuntu desktop pc only the sound is driving me nuts. It has this irritating crackling in it. I don't know what could be causing this problem.

Also i seem to be losing quite a lot of performance in comparison to windows.
My fps are a lot lower in ubuntu.

I'm running a:

Amd 64bit 3200+
Asus K8V Deluxe
768mb of ram
GF6800GT

**jdodson** · February 26th, 2005

Originally Posted by Beire

Hi,

Today i installed doom 3 on my ubuntu desktop pc only the sound is driving me nuts. It has this irritating crackling in it. I don't know what could be causing this problem.

Also i seem to be losing quite a lot of performance in comparison to windows.
My fps are a lot lower in ubuntu.

I'm running a:

Amd 64bit 3200+
Asus K8V Deluxe
768mb of ram
GF6800GT

did you upgrade with the latest patch? the latest patch fixes some sound and performance problems.

**ante0** · February 26th, 2005

Hi, i've gone from Vector Linux to Gentoo to Ubuntu (Cant complie any programs in ubuntu...) well, i would recommend using wine just because its free. Ive tried to download a free version of cedega, but i didnt find any. so Wine if you have a fast computer. I almost got Age of Empires working, except that some of the fonts didnt work =)

**jdodson** · February 26th, 2005

Originally Posted by ante0

Hi, i've gone from Vector Linux to Gentoo to Ubuntu (Cant complie any programs in ubuntu...) well, i would recommend using wine just because its free. Ive tried to download a free version of cedega, but i didnt find any. so Wine if you have a fast computer. I almost got Age of Empires working, except that some of the fonts didnt work =)

you would recommend using wine over the native doom3 program? i am curious what your reasoning is for this?

**darkoptix** · February 26th, 2005

Try turning off surround sound in the options. I had a similar problem, and turning that off fixed it.

**Beire** · February 26th, 2005

new patch and turning surround sound off didn't help. Any other suggestions ?

**DJ_Max** · February 26th, 2005

Originally Posted by ante0

Hi, i've gone from Vector Linux to Gentoo to Ubuntu (Cant complie any programs in ubuntu...) well, i would recommend using wine just because its free. Ive tried to download a free version of cedega, but i didnt find any. so Wine if you have a fast computer. I almost got Age of Empires working, except that some of the fonts didnt work =)

May I ask why you can't compile programs in Ubuntu? Also, the free versions of Cedega can be found in the CVS.

**ante0** · March 30th, 2005

first of all I got Ubuntu working( didnt know you had to install "install-essentials" package... ) Secondly i wrote that about me going between distros just to point out that not all distros work with your hardware, mostly it does but not always.
And to the third thing, i now know that the CVS version of cedega is free. =)

**ante0** · March 30th, 2005

Actually I dont even know why I wrote in this thread... No one even mentioned Wine, or whatever windows emulator you should use.
I'm sorry!

**Whiffle** · March 30th, 2005

Try turning down the PCM control in your sound card, whenever I put mine above 80 or so it always cracks my sound.

I ran the native doom3 in linux and it ran better than the windows version in windows...