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Alan Wake 2 - Audio issues

During the scenes in the car between Bright Falls and Cauldron Lake, the audio cuts a lot. Therefore I hear only a few seconds of the dialogues. Same thing during other scenes, like the one in the morgue. The audio lags behind the video. It's a really terrible gaming experience. While playing in Bright Falls, and asking questions to NPCs, sometimes the dialogues just do not play. I hear nothing while the characters mouths are moving. It's quite infuriating. I have to re-enable subtitles to know what they're saying... Anyone else having the same issue? Any hints on how to fix that? Logs are full of this:

7213.678:00d0:0168:err:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_command_allocator_Reset: There are still 1 pending command lists awaiting execution from command allocator iface 000000001020e820!

7213.678:00d0:0168:err:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_command_allocator_Reset: There are still 1 pending command lists awaiting execution from command allocator iface 000000001020e820!

This game is driving me crazy 😄

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flat-fuchsia•2y ago

post the full log

ratty-blush•2y ago

You're going to have to post the full log. It's probably something further back than that; I'm no expert with Heroic but I'd expect to see some sort of warning from PipeWire or Pulseaudio.

wee-brownOP•2y ago

sorry for not posting the full log immediately! I played for a long time so was afraid it would just be too big. I'll do a short gaming session right now and post hopefully shorter logs 🙂

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

i've not had any stuttering issues on my play through, but i seem to recall there being something.. but this was related to using steamdeck to play i think

wee-brownOP•2y ago

dc9d2e595d0e4650b35d...

wee-brownOP•2y ago

I removed yesterday's logs, this file is for a 2 min session where I noticed background ambiant sounds cutting (as usual) I'll try to see if I can send logs for audio cutting during a [loading] scene

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

pretty sure these do nothing since you are not in proton:

    "enviromentOptions": [
        {
            "key": "PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI",
            "value": "1"
        },
        {
            "key": "PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER",
            "value": "1"
        }
    ],

    "enviromentOptions": [
        {
            "key": "PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI",
            "value": "1"
        },
        {
            "key": "PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER",
            "value": "1"
        }
    ],

https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi#wine is for wine basically you need DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1

wee-brownOP•2y ago

OK. All this is confusing to me because I'm using "Wine-GE-Proton8-25", so I don't understand if it's just Wine or Wine+Proton 😄

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

proton doesnt have wine in the title Wine-GE-Proton is wine with GE's (glorious eggroll's) proton patches applied to it a guy that maintains a particular patchset for wine/proton basically functionally similar.. anyway if dlss is working for you i wouldnt mess with it haha

wee-brownOP•2y ago

yeah 😄 there's just one setting that is still disabled, it's "DLSS frame generation", so I'll try to change these env vars next time could they have an impact on audio too?

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

ime audio stutters when the system overall is struggling in this game i havent experienced it otherwise DLSS frame generation isnt a feature in linux yet i dont think

wee-brownOP•2y ago

OK that would make sense I'm getting lots of "5334.736:00d0:01f4:fixme:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_device_get_scratch_buffer: Requesting scratch buffer kind 0 larger than limit (8294400 > 1048576). Expect bad performance." in the logs a friend told me he had audio issues on windows too btw so it might just be what you said, system is struggling though my CPU is not that bad

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

i dont get any stutters tbh, but i have 32 threads, 128gb ram and a relatively decent radeon 6700xt (not top end, but certainly good enough)

wee-brownOP•2y ago

I see, thanks, I'll live with it for now 🙂

ratty-blush•2y ago

I thought Alan wake 2 couldn’t run on the steam deck?

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

it can it could at launch but being able to and saying you should are two different things haha It runs ok, but you basically have to cut detail to below console levels to do it

ratty-blush•2y ago

Below console levels? Dang. I guess I won’t run it then.

flat-fuchsia•2y ago

since you are posting about this in two threads, keep it to the other i gave more detail there.

ratty-blush•2y ago

We both are posting about it two threads if we are being honest here. I’m done anyway. Thanks for responding!

wee-brownOP•2y ago

about the original audio issue: I moved the game from my HDD to my SSD (not a big one, had to make some room) and now the audio works fine

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