I've been running into this for weeks now with no end in sight. When I'm not in a game, my audio is great. But, the second my machine is under any GPU load, I start getting horrible crackling which persists out of game until my machine chills out.
The audio is running through the laptop's integrated 3.5mm combo jack to a set of Senheiser hd600's
Here are my specs:
I've tried messing with pipe-wire, I've tried different ports. I've tried through and not throuhg my TB4 dock. Idk. I'm lost at this point.
Operating System: Bazzite 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba28.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13980HX
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: ROG Strix G834JY_G834JY
System Version: 1.0