I am having the funniest issue! Somewhat recently, I have been having my audio crackle and randomly stop, but ONLY in Counter Strike 2 itself. discord (yes i have to use it as all my friends do and wont change) and background applications keep sound going fine, until I unplug and replug my headphones to get sound back in CS. Then It goes for about another 10 minutes until I have to do it again. It feels like its sometimes triggered by a certain gun or grenade sound, and i hear some fizzing and crackling before it happens. No other program does this.
Very weird. I believe I have pulse audio installed. I am not sure how to check if pipewire installed over top of it or what (i read maybe pulse is the issue?) I tried verifying game files which did not help.
Linux mint, newest stable kernel (i forget which)
Any help appreciated…I know linux doesn’t have the best audio situation.
Does that use pipewire-pulse while you are using pipewire? That occasionally has weird issues.
Try launching Pavucontrol and see if it has similar issues.
I think so. I am a little confused how yo see what audio driver is being used. When I run system ctl pipewire status it says its active. But im not sure if pulse also is. Ill checkout pavucontrol.
It really seems like an audio buffer issue in cs2. I notice it almost always happens at the restart of a match or if a lot of different sounds happen at once. The fix ive been using is to switch out of cs every time it happens, go to my sound setting, and switch the input from headphone to some other output , and then back to headphone. Then it’ll work for another few minutes until it starts crackling and then goes mute again.
Discord works fine in the background while this happens. Never loses audio.