I am having the funniest issue! Somewhat recently, I have been having my audio crackle and randomly stop, but ONLY in Counter Strike 2 itself. discord (yes i have to use it as all my friends do and wont change) and background applications keep sound going fine, until I unplug and replug my headphones to get sound back in CS. Then It goes for about another 10 minutes until I have to do it again. It feels like its sometimes triggered by a certain gun or grenade sound, and i hear some fizzing and crackling before it happens. No other program does this.
Very weird. I believe I have pulse audio installed. I am not sure how to check if pipewire installed over top of it or what (i read maybe pulse is the issue?) I tried verifying game files which did not help.
Linux mint, newest stable kernel (i forget which)
Any help appreciated…I know linux doesn’t have the best audio situation.
One thing that happens in my laptop that I’d recommend checking is what happens if you lower the volume until you find a threshold you can listen well to but that hopefully doesn’t have crackling noise issues. In mine, the microphone is so sensitive anything over some 10~15% volume picks machine noise I’d normally not listen to. Otherwise, at the limit of the treshold my voice comes out clean when picked up by the microphone.
Oh sorry if I wasn’t clear, my mic has no issues, is the audio output that shuts off but only from the game.
It should be I asking sorry, as I didn’t make it quite clear. I could tell it wasn’t the mic, and meant that a similar issue could be happening, noise coming as interference and becoming noticeable as volume is higher.