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#1 2025-06-25 06:44:55

alba4k
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Audio sometimes disappears while playing a Game via proton

When I'm playing something via proton, I sometime notice how pipewire/wireplpumber seem to hang: Nothing on my laptop (dell XPS 9320, i7-1260P) is able to play any sound anymore and the paplay processes I use to play a click when I change the volume accumulate (instead of just playing the sound and disappearing).

This can usually be temporarily adressed by changing the Profile of the "Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller" from "Play HiFi quality Music" to "Professional Audio" and back to PHFQM in Pavucontrol's "Configuration" tab. After a couple of seconds of doing this, the sounds comes back, but usually goes away again after a couple of minutes.

Some of the games I encountered this issue on are Geometry Dash, Hollow Knight (via proton), GTA V and Deltarune.

Also I had this issue both before and after reinsalling Arch on this laptop a couple of months ago, meaning on both installations, so it's not related to any settings I may have manually changed.

If I close a game while the audio is broken, I usually hear a continuous annoying cracking noise, until I do the profile change in pavucontrol.

This is not at all a new issue, I've been noticing it since 2023.

Notably, this seems to be releated to my laptop's internal speakers. Everything works fine if I just use bluetooth headphones (Galaxy Buds Pros).

Also this is not wine-specific as the same thing happens when I use plain wine too

Last edited by alba4k (2025-07-17 16:31:39)

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