Limbo has no sound

[androith]

I bought Limbo through the Humble Indie Bundle 5 and installed through Ubuntu Software Center on freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04. The game starts up and responds to controls fine, except that there is no sound.

I have two sound cards -- one USB and another internal. However, the external one is selected in Pulse audio (the Sound Settings... menu available by clicking on the volume icon in the upper right) and sound works for everything else.

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[Rüdiger Sonderfeld (ruediger-c-plusplus)]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/144915/limbo-game-has-no-sound

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

FYI, an answer in the above link states that a support email was answered saying that an updated version will hit the downloads page sometime today to fix the issue. I would assume that those that claimed the game in the software center would get an update pushed.

[fralk (fmonte)]

The latest version now is 1.3, but still it doesn't solve the sound issue.
I installed the Windows version of Limbo using wine (from Wine PPA) and it works perfectly. It's even localized.

[hero1900 (hero1900)]

i also tried the new version and still no sound and the game still slow. i notice a little increased performance

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

fralk (fmonte) is reporting there's a 1.3 version available. I imagine it is on the HIB download page.

Does anybody know if USC is working to push the Limbo updates?

I'm still on version 1.0 (May 1st), and I'm not able to get any update from USC.

Regards.

(up-to-date precise 64bits)

[emu (edmund-jung)]

Hello,

today i have get a new version from LIMBO in the USC ( limbo 1.3-0ubuntu1 )

but i have the same Problem, i get a sound by start the game after 5 minutes, NO Sound.

Regards.

(up-to-date precise 32bits)

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

I also got an update from USC, but still no sound.

There's a slight improvement though: the first time I ran it, the intro made distorted sounds that stopped and continued, as I had not enough processor power to play it. Then, no sound over game play.

After that, on further launches, no sound at all, not even in the intro.

I'd appreciate any news about this. I also offer to run any test you guys need.

Regards.

BTW, my hardware: Intel I7, Nvidia 310M (proprietary drivers).

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

I respectfully request an update on this matter.

Cheers.

[j-stuffer (j-stuffer)]

Still not working...

Version: limbo 1.3-0ubuntu1

[emu (edmund-jung)]

i found a workaround

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In a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) type: (that's two minus (-) characters)

pulseaudio --kill

Then give it a few seconds to restart itself (watch the volume icon in the top right), then launch Limbo.
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no Problem now

[Magnus (koma-lysator)]

Killing pulseaudio did not resolve the problem for me, I still lose sound after a couple of minutes.

[j-stuffer (j-stuffer)]

Killing pulseaudio doesn't work for me. Or only works very limited: I have sound for about 2 seconds...

But I just tested LIMBO on my laptop (also Ubuntu 12.04 64 Bit). There I have sound. Guess I will playing it there, although it runs quite slowly (but still playable).

[Max Carey (mightymax)]

I had the same issue (no sound, or only a couple of seconds of crackly sound after killing pulseaudio) and was able to fix it with Wine 1.4.1 installed by running:

$ export WINEPREFIX=~/.limbo/limbo
$ winecfg

Then under the "Audio" tab, manually selecting and output device instead of leaving it at "(System default)". For instance, for my sound card I selected "HDA Intel - ALC663 Analog".

Limbo now runs fine with sound when run using the installed shortcut.

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

I unistalled the Nvidia driver, and the problem remains (using nouveau at the moment).