u/Business_Evidence631

I recently switched to linux and just the other day I wanted to play l4d2 with my friends. When I installed and launched the game for the first time on linux there was a huge delay in the sound and none of the settings help even changing snd_mixahead values or running snd_rebuildaudiocache in l4d2 terminal. I have also verified file integrity many times and tried a couple of launch options.

I am on ubuntu running the latest nividia drivers for my gtx 1070ti none of my other games or apps have this audio delay.

I appreciate any help

• Steam client date: 28/04/2026
• Distribution: Ubuntu

steam doesn't let me add a new drive when using steam -dev console command
library_folder_add /media/games/steam-library
steam returns with : Failed mounting that path!

In the settings clicking the add drive button only creates a steamapps subfolder and nothing else

I did set up my drives so that they could be accessed by all users by following the instructions of the top answer on this question, and it has been working perfectly fine other than this issue.

Also the drive has been formatted ext4 so I am genuinly confused at what could be causing this.

I posted this on github issues steam for linux but got no answers so I wanted to try my luck here.