Maiq

All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.

If there were another “??? Spring”, could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.

I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.

Such high hopes for people back then.

You might be right about latency. Gaming on linux has come a long way over the years but it still has some bugs.

Years ago FO4 would crackle, sometimes wouldn’t have dialogue and if you were anywhere near a mini nuke explosion it sounded like your speakers blew out right before you lost audio completely. The fix back then was to compile faudio which was not super simple to do. If i remember right it was problems in wine with processing WMA files.

Wine evolves pretty fast and sometimes there are regression bugs that pop up from time to time and get sorted out in one if the next versions.

Sometimes the problems fix is in a legal gray/black area which i think was the case with faidio fix i mentioned above.

Sometimes it’s an update to pulsaudio or pipewire that break’s things which might be the case with my steamdeck. Online people have said that the crackling started after a steamOS update and was fine before then and a temporary fix is to restart pulseaudio.

What I have learned over my 10+ years of gaming on linux is it always gets better eventually.

You are absolutely correct about WINEDLLOVERRIDES. Had to look it up, twice.

Try playing around with different protons and try some protonGE’s.

Try some different launch options:

WINEDLLOVERIDES="xaudio2_9=n,b"

There is different versions of xaudio i suggest 2_7 or 2_9. You can also look through winetricks for versions and make sure that one of the above are installed. Back up your wineprefix/steam_compatdata_game_folder before installing as its easier to do that uninstall things in wine.

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60

Here you can change pulseaudio latency. Try 30, 60 or 90 to see if one of those help.

Lastly you can fiddle with settings in winecfg. Change audio controller or enable EAX in the staging tab.

On my steamdeck i have lots of games that crackle and my tricks above do nothing to help. They have helped in the past on my laptop so your milage may vary.