I am running with KDE Plasma as my desktop environment and I use the Focusrite Clarett+ 8pre as my audio interface.
I have been able to get all my Steam games to play, whether it's with Proton or not, but audio is hit or miss. Games like Heroes of Hammerwatch and Civilization 5 work perfectly. Warframe is interesting because the launcher has sound, but when I get into the actual game I lose sound. Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader and Wizard101 have no sound at all. There's an interesting workaround I've found that really just confuses the situation to me. If I plug in my other audio interface I don't use, the Fiio K3, set that as my output device, then launch, for example, Heroes of Hammerwatch, I suddenly see the game under "Playback Streams" in system settings. After this I can manually change the output of the game to my preferred audio interface (the Focusrite) and it works normally from there. If I launch the game with the Focusrite as the output device, however, the game does not show up under "Playback Streams" at all.
With all other applications I have no audio issues, YouTube, VLC and whatever else I've tried works great.
Troubleshooting steps I've tried:
I thought bit depth was the issue for a while, I'm not so sure now. I was reading this page that mentions bit depth as a possible cause, so I was trying to change the bit depth of the audio interface. https://wiki.debian.org/Steam
- modifying /etc/pulse/default.pa to try and set a default bit depth
- modifying /etc/pulse/daemon.conf for the same reason as above
- using pacmd to force the Focusrite to use s16le bit depth rather than s32le as reported by "pactl list", I wasn't able to actually change anything because I don't understand the command structure for pacmd or pactl
- Going into Windows (I dual-boot) and setting the Focusrite to 16 bit 44100 in control panel
- Changing what version of Proton is being used, I tried every version from Proton Hotfix to 5.13-6. Rogue Trader didn't run correctly with 5.13-6 so I stopped there.
- Changing the audio interface from "Multichannel Duplex" to "Multichannel Output" in system settings
My only takeaway right now is that some games are not being detected as playback streams and therefore can't be managed as an audio source in any way. I don't understand why this happens on the Focusrite, but not the Fiio.
I have been able to get all my Steam games to play, whether it's with Proton or not, but audio is hit or miss. Games like Heroes of Hammerwatch and Civilization 5 work perfectly. Warframe is interesting because the launcher has sound, but when I get into the actual game I lose sound. Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader and Wizard101 have no sound at all. There's an interesting workaround I've found that really just confuses the situation to me. If I plug in my other audio interface I don't use, the Fiio K3, set that as my output device, then launch, for example, Heroes of Hammerwatch, I suddenly see the game under "Playback Streams" in system settings. After this I can manually change the output of the game to my preferred audio interface (the Focusrite) and it works normally from there. If I launch the game with the Focusrite as the output device, however, the game does not show up under "Playback Streams" at all.
With all other applications I have no audio issues, YouTube, VLC and whatever else I've tried works great.
Troubleshooting steps I've tried:
I thought bit depth was the issue for a while, I'm not so sure now. I was reading this page that mentions bit depth as a possible cause, so I was trying to change the bit depth of the audio interface. https://wiki.debian.org/Steam
- modifying /etc/pulse/default.pa to try and set a default bit depth
- modifying /etc/pulse/daemon.conf for the same reason as above
- using pacmd to force the Focusrite to use s16le bit depth rather than s32le as reported by "pactl list", I wasn't able to actually change anything because I don't understand the command structure for pacmd or pactl
- Going into Windows (I dual-boot) and setting the Focusrite to 16 bit 44100 in control panel
- Changing what version of Proton is being used, I tried every version from Proton Hotfix to 5.13-6. Rogue Trader didn't run correctly with 5.13-6 so I stopped there.
- Changing the audio interface from "Multichannel Duplex" to "Multichannel Output" in system settings
My only takeaway right now is that some games are not being detected as playback streams and therefore can't be managed as an audio source in any way. I don't understand why this happens on the Focusrite, but not the Fiio.
Statistics: Posted by timmy79089 — 2025-02-09 02:48 — Replies 0 — Views 22