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Ateku

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

Took sometime, because the command did not launch nor killed my Hyprland session. I did it myself, but needed to record some mp3 audio. From TTY, the audio plays fine.
Just to be clear: The audio crackling does not happen if the app runs as it is. It happens if something else will happen in the meantime such as switching tabs in browser or switching workplaces in Hyrpland.

seth

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

Ok, please try not-hyprland.
Edit: also make sure that https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … -hyprland/ isn't running, in doubt remove the entire portal stuff.

x-ref, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311010

Last edited by seth (2025-12-15 23:43:48)

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totally-grey

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

The mpv output runs fine, without any issue.

But not on hyprland?
startx some xterms and try there…

It`s run fine without hyprland, I tested the audio on x11 using LXDE, launching mpv instances a lot of time mpv and the switch focused window issue don`t occur (probably because LXDE doesn`t have this feature), but the steam fullscreen video crackling persists.

Last edited by totally-grey (2025-12-16 00:00:29)

seth

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

Does it come w/ a specific power-profile or performance level?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … nce_levels

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Ateku

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

I removed `xdg-desktop-portal` and `xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland` packages. From TTY, with multi-user.target, the audio works fine.
No changes about crackling audio in Hyprland after removing both of the packages.

totally-grey

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

I found a lot of reclamations of this issue since early 2025 on reddit relating the issue to the RX 9000 Series:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/commen … _problems/

A comment from 4 month ago says that a mesa update from linux kernel caused this issue, so I believe that is a driver issue, apparently on windows there's a way to fix it, changing some configs on Adrenalin, but I don't fix any solution on Linux.

Last edited by totally-grey (2025-12-18 00:05:12)

seth

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

SOLUTION:
* Open AMD Adrenalin
* Go to performance, tuning and enable manual control.
* Enable GPU tuning and then enable advanced control.
* What you have to do now is browse your GPU model and look for your game boost MHZ, mine said 2584mhz so I adjust my max freq to that number and THEN the most important part is the min frequency, I tried 2200 and it solved all my freaking issues.
* Don't forget to click on save settings.

Does it come w/ a specific power-profile or performance level?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … nce_levels

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totally-grey

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

Changing those presets doesn't make any difference, but I saw a comment saying that when the memory frequency is high the crackling disappears, I open a game and, if I'm not mistaken the crackling was lower but don't disappears completely.
Those presets only affects the GPU frequency, not VRAM.

seth

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

https://gist.github.com/Rend0e/3bddac42 … 326f36f6cc …

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Ateku

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Re: Audio crackling after switching GPU (pipewire / pulseaudio).

I do use LACT for overclocking / undervolting. It sets the VRAM Clock Power State to 2248 MHz min with Highest Clocks Performance Level, but the issue still persists. It's definitely less noticeable, but if you focus on it, you can hear it.