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Posted August 16, 2015
Hi!

I played Transistor - on GNU/Linux Ubuntu - a few times, it worked fine. And one day, I launched the game, and there was no sound anymore. No music, no ambient, nothing.

When I launch the game within a terminal (start.sh), I have these messages:

Running Transistor
OpenGL Device: GeForce GTX 760/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL Driver: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.76
OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Using EXT_swap_control_tear VSync!
Number of audio devices: 2
Driver #0: GK104 HDMI Audio Controller Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI), Speaker Mode: _5POINT1
Driver #1: Audio interne Stéréo analogique, Speaker Mode: STEREO
Using driver #0

However, the "driver #0" does not produce sound when I test it in the Sound settings panel. Driver #1 does, but Transistor give me no choice on this, it seems to use the first driver it encounters, and there's no settings ingame to change that.

Has anyone ever had this problem? If so, did you solve it? I'm a bit frustrated, because music is, well, a big part of Transistor, so I can't play for now.

Thanks!
This question / problem has been solved by rfjardimimage
Posted August 16, 2015
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Problem solved!

The solution is here: (http)pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Transistor#OS_X.2FLinux_audio_missing.

"The FMOD Studio runtime may not pick the right audio device for sound playback. "

"Navigate to the configuration file and save game data location (often ~/.local/share/Transistor)."

"Open FMODDriver.txt and enter the index of the sound card you wish to use. This is generally a single digit - the list of sound cards and their respective index is printed to the terminal at the start of the application."

BE CAREFUL when you fiddle with this file, nevertheless. First thing, make a backup copy. Then change the unique digit in the file. You will certainly have a carriage return character added in the file (even "echo 1 > FMODDriver.txt" insert 1 *and* a CR). If it's present, Transistor will crash at launch. I removed the CR character with "jeex" software, a tiny hex editor.

EDIT: the last paragraph is not useful, in fact. It was not necessary to strip the CR (the game crashed because I changed the video driver for test... never change two things in a row, kids).
Post edited August 17, 2015 by Lamecarlate
Posted November 08, 2020
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Lamecarlate: Problem solved!

The solution is here: (http)pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Transistor#OS_X.2FLinux_audio_missing.

"The FMOD Studio runtime may not pick the right audio device for sound playback. "

"Navigate to the configuration file and save game data location (often ~/.local/share/Transistor)."

"Open FMODDriver.txt and enter the index of the sound card you wish to use. This is generally a single digit - the list of sound cards and their respective index is printed to the terminal at the start of the application."

BE CAREFUL when you fiddle with this file, nevertheless. First thing, make a backup copy. Then change the unique digit in the file. You will certainly have a carriage return character added in the file (even "echo 1 > FMODDriver.txt" insert 1 *and* a CR). If it's present, Transistor will crash at launch. I removed the CR character with "jeex" software, a tiny hex editor.

EDIT: the last paragraph is not useful, in fact. It was not necessary to strip the CR (the game crashed because I changed the video driver for test... never change two things in a row, kids).
Thank you!
I had the issue, found many solutions, but none showed which folder I could find "FMODDriver.txt " ... you did!
Thank you
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