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JaqFrost

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Registered: 2016-01-07

Posts: 2

Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

Updated my system recently and noticed when I went to play steam games they weren't running with any sound.
Reviewed my pacman logs to see what all updated that I can roll back and see if it's resolved to a state where it worked prior.

I rolled back these packages:
alsa-card-profiles   1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.00 MiB
lib32-libpipewire    1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1     -0.01 MiB
lib32-pipewire       1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.05 MiB
lib32-pipewire-jack  1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.00 MiB
libpipewire          1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1     -0.01 MiB
pipewire             1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.01 MiB
pipewire-alsa        1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.00 MiB
pipewire-audio       1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.05 MiB
pipewire-jack        1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.00 MiB
pipewire-pulse       1:1.4.4-1    1:1.4.2-1      0.00 MiB

With them rolled back sound once again works with steam games.  I assume it's just the steam games since Minecraft via prismlauncher works regardless the package version used.

lifeismana

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Registered: 2024-02-08

Posts: 6

Re: Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305771 & https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … /issues/16
assuming your audio output is in 5.1/7.1, switch it to stereo while the issue is worked on

BS86

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Registered: 2022-11-03

Posts: 97

Re: Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/4722

My solution was to build 1.4.4 with the commit from that issue reverted.

zebulon

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 384

Re: Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

Fixed on master by the author, need to wait for release: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/4722.

STEELBAS

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-01-18

Posts: 83

Re: Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

Ooof, I spent two evenings trying to figure out why Stray suddenly didn't work anymore. I was looking at the recent Mesa update, as the error message was completely unhelpful (just "Fatal error").

Only when I gave up, booted up another game and noticed the lack of sound, did I connect the dots, ha. Downgrading Pipewire did the trick, for now.

BS86

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Registered: 2022-11-03

Posts: 97

Re: Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

1.4.5 just appeared in testing with the fix included

Heyian

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Registered: 2024-10-28

Posts: 4

Re: Possible pipewire 1.4.4 and steam games issue?

The fixed has been released and the repo is now up to date also, this has fixed the issue for me.