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Universal Blue•2mo ago
Isio

Guild Wars 2 : brief audio glitch on certain actions

The game runs great on bazzite. The only issue I have left is that the audio glitches very briefly when I open TP (Trading post) or Wizard vault (and also when changing map or login out). Note : from my understanding TP/wizard vault in Gw2 is calling an embedded chrome browser. These actions seem to be linked to CPU usage bursts. I tried with many proton/protonGE versions, and tweaked some pipewire/pulse settings with no luck. It's the only game I have this kind of issue. With advice from @HikariKnight I tried the following with no luck : I put this in ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/wine.conf 
pulse.rules = [
    {
        matches = [
            { application.process.binary = "wine64-preloader" }
            { application.process.binary = "wine-preloader" }
        ]
        actions = {
            update-props = {
                pulse.min.req          = 128/48000
                pulse.min.quantum      = 128/48000
            }
        }
    }
]
pulse.rules = [
    {
        matches = [
            { application.process.binary = "wine64-preloader" }
            { application.process.binary = "wine-preloader" }
        ]
        actions = {
            update-props = {
                pulse.min.req          = 128/48000
                pulse.min.quantum      = 128/48000
            }
        }
    }
]
Any other ideas ?
2 Replies
Isio
IsioOP•2mo ago
Update : I forgot to mention there is also a small graphical hiccup/frame drop at the same time of the audio hiccup. I tried to change CPU scheduler (I tried all available) by changing it in /etc/default/scx and then sudo systemctl start scx (or restart) -> No improvement
HikariKnight
HikariKnight•2mo ago
framedrop would make sense when it happens as thats usually when audio is playing catchup when its cpu bound

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