Hi all,

bought and Installed Shadowrun Dragonfall on my old Thinkpad T400 .. works pretty well after installed all missing dependancies, but Absolutely no sound in game ? everything works well on my system vids, youtube, spotify, MP3 and co ... and even on other games (BG2, Icewind Dale, Pillars of eternity ... but impossible to have sound in Shadowrun ...

any idea ?

regards

TC

IMPORTANT : it's a Linux Ubuntu 18.04 box ...

I don't know of any Ubuntu specific problems but Dragonfall caused soundproblems for many people through all kinds of operating systems.

Most people had the problem, that Dragonfall set the game at mute, i can't remember if it just changed the settings or config...so best to check both and pray that it solves the problem :)

I'm getting the same problem in Mint 19.1. I had to install libglu1-mesa:i386 and libxcursor1:i386 to get the game to start at all, so I'm assuming that I need to install some other i386 library, but I don't know which one.

EDIT: Got it working. I had to install libasound2:i386 and libasound2-plugins:i386. The information was on the game's PCGamingWiki page: [url=https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Shadowrun:_Dragonfall_-_Director%27s_Cut]https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Shadowrun:_Dragonfall_-_Director%27s_Cut[/url]

dude!! you're a lifesaver! I installed the two libraries and sounds working now. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I had this problem trying to use both a lib32 Arch Linux and Debian chroot.

I had to install pulseaudio (libpulse was required) and I had to create an

asound.conf

in

/etc

with the following:

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

for alsa to work (where 1 is the number of my soundcard when running "aplay -l"). Some desktops and almost all laptops have HDMI sound output which always put the default sound card to card 0 causing the sound to not work.

I find all three of the Shadowrun games will fail silently when there are audio problems, sometimes not even starting if the card is not detected properly (picking HDMI over the soundcard).

I am just posting this here in case it helps anyone.

Just chiming in, for this and other Shadowrun games, I did the following three things on Xubuntu 19.10 and all is well now:

remove everything from lib folder (if one exists)
sudo apt-get install libgl1:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libpulse0:i386 libxcursor1:i386
add to initialization section in start.sh: export LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1

Hej ho, just resurrecting the thread to say that libgl1:i386 and libglu1-mesa:i386 seem to be the reason why the game did not launch for me. I didn't have to add the passage to start.sh.

Thank you so much, I had already begun to go mad over this :)

Reminder from me to future me and others:

Since pipewire is new de facto Linux sound standard, you will need to install pipewire-alsa:i386 (could be named different in your distro)