Euro Truck Simulator 2 – How to Fix Linux Game Crash on Launch (Audio Problem Case)

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Initialising SDL Audio:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’

ALSA lib conf.c:5204:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings

ALSA lib conf.c:5204:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib confmisc.c:1342:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name

ALSA lib conf.c:5204:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib conf.c:5727:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib pcm.c:2675:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

FATAL ERROR : Failed to open audio output device: “ALSA: Couldn’t open audio device: No such file or directory”

Failed to open audio output device: “ALSA: Couldn’t open audio device: No such file or directory”./PrisonArchitect: line 59: 36557 Aborted                 (core dumped) “$base”/PrisonArchitect.x86_64 “$@”

It’s based on this answer i found online (here: link[www.gog.com]).

Go to your Prison Architect folder, mine is under ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Prison\ Architect/
Set these env variables:

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

export AUDIODEV=pulse

I have not tried anything else set as AUDIODEV, if something else gives better results please leave a comment.

Then run the game. I am launching it via terminal, inside game folder directory:

./PrisonArchitect

You can, of course, automate this and put it into a script, but there are probably other tutorials on this already.

You can encounter another error associated with steam app id, in that case:

echo 233450 > ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Prison\ Architect/steam_appid.txt