Audio Randomly Stops Working in Linux Arch with Pipewire

[NickTheOnlyNeko]

Your system information

• System information from steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) in a gist:
• System Information: https://gist.github.com/NickTheOnlyNeko/89c1b6d5cd457c85c6fc76f2d15ef49b
• Linux Steam Runtime Diagnostics: https://gist.github.com/NickTheOnlyNeko/560f3dd6c3702b9a9c5ddbcf3c3ac321

• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

in CS2 the Audio keeps randomly crashing/stopping mid game/match and sometimes not even mid game/match, whenever i connect the game to my Headphones it keeps randomly stopping and all i hear is dead silence from the game(Untill i restart the game) but when i route the game to use my monitor(Through HDMI) and then i mod the loop to go through my headphones it somehow works fine(untill i reboot the game because then it'll connect again to my monitor). Valve Please Fix

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Install Linux Arch(Archinstall) and Grab a HyperX Could 2 gaming headset
2. Install and Launch CS2
3. Play CS2 for like 3 or 4 matchmaking rounds and eventually you'll get the audio issue

Steps on how i get around the issue:

1. Open CS2 go to settings and
2. set audio settings from:
3. to:
4. after that open qpwgraph and set the audio from the monitor to the headphones
5. step 1:
6. step 2:
7. step 3:

[burd1]

Happens to me aswell, i just restart the game, but its really annoying. Sometimes i can fiddle with the audio device settings and it might start again. Mine happens on Pop OS though.

[Maltesaa]

This seems to have fixed it for me https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/3805#issuecomment-2235159020

[NickTheOnlyNeko]

This seems to have fixed it for me https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/3805#issuecomment-2235159020

Tried it and it doesn't work, audio still keeps cutting off randomly

[ztjuh]

Not only on Arch Linux but on Pop!_OS too.

[rooiratel]

I have had the same issue with cs2, and my wife also has the same issue with dota2.

Both using Arch and pipewire.

[juanakajuan]

I've been having the same problem, happens multiple times a game.

[speatzle]

Also happens to me after a few rounds, Nobara 40

[Siltnamis]

Same thing, also for dota2. almost unplayable

[TheRealBecks]

That bug hit me one week ago the first time and I see this problem about 4-6 times (!) per match and I have to restart my game

OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Pipewire, but Pipewire has been used by the system at least since one year, so I don't know why it now suddenly happened

System: Opensuse Tumbleweed with Pipewire

[NickTheOnlyNeko]

That bug hit me one week ago the first time and I see this problem about 4-6 times (!) per match and I have to restart my game

OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Pipewire, but Pipewire has been used by the system at least since one year, so I don't know why it now suddenly happened

try this from @C0rn3j

[rooiratel]

Issue resolved from my end for the last few months. I didn't change anything on my system, except normal package updates.

[burd1]

The audio issue happens less compared to before, but it still does happen. There are also instances of sped up audio and crackling sound until the game is restarted.

[NickTheOnlyNeko]

Honestly i am so fed up with Valve Treating the Linux Port of CS2 like cr4p that I might just start a Petition to force Valve to start pushing updates for Linux's CS2 port, CS2 has been walking(not running but walking) like dog sh!t lately.

[turrini]

Happening after Oct 15 update, Debian 13.1 Trixie. Using pipewire.

[rtaft]

Mint 22.2, pipewire. I just started playing CS2 and have encountered this daily. On at least one occasion, it happened when audio played from another application (Steam specifically). I have never encountered this on TF2.

[LemonHeadOnGit]

I notice that it will tend to happen when the CPU receives a high amount of load (e.g. when compiling shaders). The way I get around this happening in maps is to try to run through every map first before loading into a game. Though I completely forgot to throw at least one grenade, causing shaders to compile, resulting in me losing audio.