Maiq

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

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.

Kde is working really well on linux-surface. Had to change the OSK to maliit(?) but everything I need works. I haven’t tried to install the camera driver because I never needed it. Stylus works really well ootb. Use it with Krita. Screen rotation works great and I use it as an e-reader. I choose an easy arch distro because disk encryption works with the native keyboard although it has been some time since i tried a non rolling distro and other distros could have addressed the startup keyboard issues by now. 10/10 would recommend.

A lot if it is sowing dissent and breaking discourse as well.