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.

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Try playing around with different protons and try some protonGE’s.

    Try some different launch options:

    WINEDLLOVERIDES="xaudio2_9=n,b"

    There is different versions of xaudio i suggest 2_7 or 2_9. You can also look through winetricks for versions and make sure that one of the above are installed. Back up your wineprefix/steam_compatdata_game_folder before installing as its easier to do that uninstall things in wine.

    PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60

    Here you can change pulseaudio latency. Try 30, 60 or 90 to see if one of those help.

    Lastly you can fiddle with settings in winecfg. Change audio controller or enable EAX in the staging tab.

    On my steamdeck i have lots of games that crackle and my tricks above do nothing to help. They have helped in the past on my laptop so your milage may vary.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Thank you!

      I didnt really think it would be a proton issue but I guess it only really does it with cs. I haven’t noticed.othwr applications crackling or going mute.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I’m guessing ‘WINEDLLOVERIDES’ should be ‘WINEDLLOVERRIDES’. Though it could be same misspelling situation as with the ‘Referer’ header in HTTP.

      Also took me a while to read it as something other than ‘wined lover dies’.

      • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        You are absolutely correct about WINEDLLOVERRIDES. Had to look it up, twice.