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KDE Neon / Pipewire issues when gaming (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys! So I seem to have audio issues. Audio will mute for like 5 seconds every 20 seconds or so. It's very annoying, as it can make you miss whole parts of dialog. It only happens on linux, and only on gaming, so I guess it means the amp/surround system is ok. I use the TV HDMI output for audio, as it gets redirected to the 5.1 amp via ARC. This works flawlessly for most scenarios, but somehow it seems to get into trouble when in games. I've tried so far games based on Proton (Cyberpunk, Alan Wake...original, not remake). I'm using lates KDE Neon, with Pipewire. What would you recommend to check? If I boot back to WiIndows, the games run fine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, here's my final update on this issue, and a possible solution/workaround: As the problem is due to crappy audio latency when using Wine, a way to avoid it is by giving it higher priority. If anyone has the issue, you can try using Feral's gamemode. Launch your problematic app via gamemoderun, and it will decrease stuttering very significantly. If the game is really intense on CPU or you have other stuff getting it busy, it will still stutter, but it's way less frequent on the game I'm currently playing (Outer Worlds), which is not very resource intensive. I'll let you know once I try harder games.