Launch Dota Audio Fix

Fixes Dota's no sound issue. On some distros it will even fail to open.

Distro: Arch, Manjaro

Issue

I was was curious to see if my "No Audio" issue might have been a clue and luckily for me I found someone with a similar problem on linux.

Github / Value

None of them mentioned dota not being able to start, but at this point i figured I might as well give it a shot. After going through one of the solutions to fix the audio it ended up fixing all of my dota problems. Here is the solution I used for arch/manjaro

sudo pacman -S wireplumber pipewire-audio
sudo pacman -R pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth manjaro-pulse pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-ctl 
sudo pacman -S pipewire-pulse
systemctl --user --now enable wireplumber.service
reboot

After that you need to add `-sdlaudiodriver pipewire` to the start up options in dota.

  • Open Steam
  • Goto Library
  • Right Click Dota 2
  • Click Properties
  • Scroll down to "Launch Options"
  • Paste `-sdlaudiodriver pipewire`

You should be good to go!