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WordHopper

A stylish arcade word game for DOS (and more) · By kokoscript

How to fix occasional audio chirps under Linux?

A topic by Twilight Sparkle created Jul 19, 2023 Views: 216 Replies: 3
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Hi! Whenever I'm playing with the provided DOSBox install, my audio will occasionally make odd chirping sounds.


Here's the full log: https://haste.soulja-boy-told.me/yakoyuwato.txt

Developer

Oh odd, I haven't run into that. If you're able to set it up manually, does the audio act like this under any other fork of DOSBox? The preconf'd downloads use the latest release version of DOSBox-Staging at the time of writing, so it could be an issue with that

(The only other thing I can think of is an audio system discrepancy; I still use PulseAudio on my system despite everyone else seemingly using PipeWire at this point. But I don't think that'd be the issue)

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sound's perfect on dosbox 0.74-3 from my package manager, on void linux, using pulseaudio. i manually typed in the autoexec commands and didn't set any config

Developer (1 edit)

Huh, then it seems like it's emulator-dependent. You could try seeing if a fresh copy of DOSBox-Staging with its default config elicits the same behavior; if it does, try playing around with the settings under '[mixer]' in ~/.config/dosbox/dosbox-staging.conf. The comments explaining the blocksize and prebuffer values mention stuttering, so perhaps increasing them would help?