[0.16.51] No audio in game with Steam for Arch Linux

[morrigan]

Hello everyone!

I just purchased the full game on steam (did not demo as I knew I wanted it) and the game runs fine graphically but does not have any audio at all. I am running a fully updated Arch Linux system and running Factorio through steam.

Reproduce:
To start, I run the game by clicking "Play" in my Steam library. The game loads fine but there is no sound at the menu or in a game after I start any campain. I have also run it from the command line, see below.

What I did:
I have browsed the forums here as well as on steam and it does seems this issue has come up before, however, none of those fixes work for me. So far I have looked here:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- ... ssues/3695
For the issue when running Factorio from the command line (see attached file for output when starting the game with "padsp ./factorio" ( as a sub sub note, I ran without the padsp command before and there was still output for the missing version but not the output about the shared libraries needing that version number to work) ) and there being an apparent version issue. With this, I edited the steam.sh file that is mentioned in that github issue to fall to the last condition of getting the release information from "uname -r" since the /etc/os-release file did not have a variable "VERSION_ID" and thus was not setting anything for steam to use.

Also I looked at this topic viewtopic.php?t=21815
and when I tried to both "Set Launch Options" within steam as well as manually run the command, to no avail.

What I expected:
That audio would work in game at least, even if it didn't have any/work at the menu.

I have also attached the log file for running the command "padsp ./factorio" from the command line. As you will note, there is no error for the "Loading sounds..." step as the game does launch normally, just without audio.

Thank you for any help you can provide and I will be happy to provide any more information if it will help!

[PastorJ]

I'd like to bump this and say that I'm experiencing the exact same issues. Factorio produces no sound at all. I'm currently running Manjaro linux, which is based off Arch Linux. I've tried all the solutions listed above to no avail either.

factorio-current.log

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[PaddyWan]

I had a simular problem with the same log output, while I doubt you have the same issue I had, I'll explain how I got it working.
I have 2 soundcards: the onboard motherboard one and a PCI-E one. I'm using the PCI-E so I disabled the onboard one in pulseaudio (in pavucontrol). It's only when I enable the onboard soundcard (that I don't use at all), that I get sound from factorio on the PCI-E one.