Sound latency in UT2003

[mrjones]

I just installed UT2003 on Fedora, and finally got it to work, missing DRI blah blah blah, so finally i got the game to run. Framerate is good, no slowdown, but the sound lags behind about 1-2 seconds on everything I do! I looked through the Readme and it said disable sound daemon. I know this is a big newbie question but how do you go about doing that? Any help is greatly appreciated

[bwkaz]

What desktop does your installation of Fedora use?

If Gnome, then you'll have to disable ESD. I don't know how to do that, as I've never used Gnome for longer than five minutes. ;)

If KDE, then artscontrol stop or artscontrol suspend will disable Arts (which is the KDE sound server). artscontrol resume (or start) will restart it.

[mrjones]

thanks for the tip, alas i tried that in KDE (which is what i use 99% of the time) and could not get it to work so i tried it in GNOME after doing a little research how to disable it and you are right it is 'esd' command, and got it to work fine the first go round. I tried it again because it seemed too good to be true and lo&bhold it fsucked up again, 1-2 second latency in sounds. I went back to KDE with the same problem. Ill jiggle it a little more and see what I can come up with, but Thanks for your help!

[bwkaz]

This is the native UT2k3 install, right? You're not using WineX or something like that?

I do remember that WineX had some issues with sound lagging by a second or two in the past, but that was about a year (or more) ago by now...

[mrjones]

ok ok heres the deal, i got it to work. Yeah its native i installed right into linux. I went probing around in the control panel and found the sound properties. lo and behold there it was, something like "load artscontrol", i unchecked it and rebooted. Works like a charm

thanks for your help i would not have known what i needed to have disabled....appreciate it