Silent Hunter 4 on Wine, No sound Effects?

Caption Ranker · 08-19-18, 07:45 PM

Hi, I recently jumped ship and switched to Linux. I tired to Run Silent Hunter 4 U-boat missions through Steam with Lutris. It works for the most part, but the funny thing is I don't have any sound effects. Music plays fine, voices work, but other then that I can't hear anything.

I'm running Linux Mint 19. Intel i5, 12gb ram Nvidia GtX970.

I tried switching out the Kernel to the latest version, but that had no effect.

I read online I should try switching the Audio drivers with Winetricks, I tried that but it seemed to have no effect... (although I'm unsure I did it right)

I can play cold waters just fine, so I'm somewhat inclined to just put SH4 on the list of games I won't be able to play ever again, unless somebody has any ideas.

Too bad Ubisoft never made SH4 open source... ah well.

Aktungbby · 08-20-18, 02:01 AM

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propbeanie · 08-20-18, 07:17 AM

Caption Ranker, some of the music, and a lot of the speech in SH4 is in ogg vorbis format. The rest is probably in wav format. Is there a codec for wav on your computer for Linux? I would think there would be, even before any Wine install... You can also check in the game's Options menu, under the Sound settings, and see what the various sliders are set to. The 3D slider on the upper left of that page is kind of wonky, and should probably be left of center, if you've moved it any. On my computer, it messes with the "stereo" field if I move it to the right. I'm using Win7, and I do not remember what happens with it in my Ubuntu 16.x... Are you usiig a built-in sound card on your motherboard, or an after-market thingie?...

Caption Ranker · 08-20-18, 10:12 AM

Just an inbuilt sound card, although I got a USB dongle to headphones. I found out I have no sound in Skyrim when I ran that last night, so I'm assuming something is messed up with my wine install or I don't have my audio drivers working correctly. Thanks for letting me know about the sound effects. Maybe I don't have .wav codex?

I have not used linux in years, but I'm finding it much more stable then before, also don't need to open a console all the time now. Even without the sound I'm fairly impressed everything else works in SH4. I'm gonna look into fixing the sound in Skyrim, as it looks like a lot more support exists for solving that issue online, hopefully by fixing that I will fix this too. But I will also look into .wav codex and try and get a better understanding of Linux Audio.

Caption Ranker · 08-20-18, 11:33 AM

Oh brother, well I got sound working on Skyrim, I have no idea what I did. I tried running it on different wine staging then switched it back and for some reason sound started working.

But now SH4 will crash anytime I try and load a mission... you know, you use Linux for awhile and it really makes you appreciate all the things that are not broken on windows that we take for granted.

Still I think I'm making progress, I'm not going back to windows, just not sure if I should list these as bugs on wine HQ.

propbeanie · 08-20-18, 04:15 PM

I forget what I changed in my SH4 install one time, and it crashed from then on... Try to navigate to the game's folder, and double-click on the SH4.exe directly, instead of any shortcut you might have... BarracudaUAK and Rockin Robbins are two big Linux users here, let's see if we can get their attention...

08-19-18, 07:45 PM	#1
Caption Ranker Watch Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 15 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Silent Hunter 4 on Wine, No sound Effects? Hi, I recently jumped ship and switched to Linux. I tired to Run Silent Hunter 4 U-boat missions through Steam with Lutris. It works for the most part, but the funny thing is I don't have any sound effects. Music plays fine, voices work, but other then that I can't hear anything. I'm running Linux Mint 19. Intel i5, 12gb ram Nvidia GtX970. I tried switching out the Kernel to the latest version, but that had no effect. I read online I should try switching the Audio drivers with Winetricks, I tried that but it seemed to have no effect... (although I'm unsure I did it right) I can play cold waters just fine, so I'm somewhat inclined to just put SH4 on the list of games I won't be able to play ever again, unless somebody has any ideas. Too bad Ubisoft never made SH4 open source... ah well. Last edited by Caption Ranker; 08-19-18 at 08:02 PM.

08-20-18, 02:01 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,084 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	welcome back! Caption Ranker! AFTER A LONG SILENT RUN! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

08-20-18, 07:17 AM	#3
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,117 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	Caption Ranker, some of the music, and a lot of the speech in SH4 is in ogg vorbis format. The rest is probably in wav format. Is there a codec for wav on your computer for Linux? I would think there would be, even before any Wine install... You can also check in the game's Options menu, under the Sound settings, and see what the various sliders are set to. The 3D slider on the upper left of that page is kind of wonky, and should probably be left of center, if you've moved it any. On my computer, it messes with the "stereo" field if I move it to the right. I'm using Win7, and I do not remember what happens with it in my Ubuntu 16.x... Are you usiig a built-in sound card on your motherboard, or an after-market thingie?... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

08-20-18, 04:15 PM	#6
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,117 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	I forget what I changed in my SH4 install one time, and it crashed from then on... Try to navigate to the game's folder, and double-click on the SH4.exe directly, instead of any shortcut you might have... BarracudaUAK and Rockin Robbins are two big Linux users here, let's see if we can get their attention... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

08-20-18, 10:12 AM	#4
Caption Ranker Watch Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 15 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Just an inbuilt sound card, although I got a USB dongle to headphones. I found out I have no sound in Skyrim when I ran that last night, so I'm assuming something is messed up with my wine install or I don't have my audio drivers working correctly. Thanks for letting me know about the sound effects. Maybe I don't have .wav codex? I have not used linux in years, but I'm finding it much more stable then before, also don't need to open a console all the time now. Even without the sound I'm fairly impressed everything else works in SH4. I'm gonna look into fixing the sound in Skyrim, as it looks like a lot more support exists for solving that issue online, hopefully by fixing that I will fix this too. But I will also look into .wav codex and try and get a better understanding of Linux Audio.

08-20-18, 11:33 AM	#5
Caption Ranker Watch Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 15 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Oh brother, well I got sound working on Skyrim, I have no idea what I did. I tried running it on different wine staging then switched it back and for some reason sound started working. But now SH4 will crash anytime I try and load a mission... you know, you use Linux for awhile and it really makes you appreciate all the things that are not broken on windows that we take for granted. Still I think I'm making progress, I'm not going back to windows, just not sure if I should list these as bugs on wine HQ.