Audio issue (crackling) on Lutris/Wine/Playonlinux

Hi guys,

There’s a long time that a had problens with sound crackling in some games, usualy in x64 prefix with DX10/11 under wine, I read some topics to change pulse audio for alsa and start wine/lutris/playonlinux with this string “PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60”, but nothing happens here, with the second tip, works for a 1/2 minutes then audio start worst, I still looking for some solution with this games, I try this under Fedora 27 and Ubuntu 16.10, if someone have some tip about it I’ll be thankfull.

theres a video with this problens of audio in GTA V

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I suggest you to install xact. I’ve had the same problems with GOG’s Metro Last Light and this fixed the sound issue.

Yeah that’s a known problem with GTA V in Wine not Lutris. There is another workaround besides the one in your video: https://redd.it/7qm8wp

This could break other applications so keep that in mind.

Hi, I have no ideia mais i can’t install xact in x64 prefix, theres an error, I’ll attached a print for you checkScreenshot_20180204_075156

Tks for this tip, but unfortunatly this not fix the sound, works for a few minutes then start worst, tks anyway

Hey Guys I found the problem with the wine sound, Talking to one friend to work with audio recording he told me that this new games works with 24bit audio and I’ve here a audio interface 16bit, then I plug my speakers direclty in my mobo and problen solved, my mobo is an asus B85M-E/BR 24bit audio, and I’m plaing GTA V for a 30 minutes and nothing of audio problens, now its time to solve this problens in wine, if someone know or have some ideia how to fix ir please let me know.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

I would start with changing: default-fragment-size-msec

Just like the latency fix, this has fixed crackling for me in the past. I’m using 5 now.

tks I’ll check it!