56  External Sound Server: Overview

Let’s look at LinuxDoom’s external sound server system and understand why it was designed to handle audio processing separately from the main engine.

LinuxDoom offloads audio mixing to a separate process called the sound server to prevent audio glitches.

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The sound server runs as a separate process from the main game, which helps prevent audio glitches that occurred with synchronous or timer-driven approaches.

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These functions handle the core communication between DOOM and its sound server.