Cyberpunk 2077 in Wine
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scaine Jul 8, 2021
Quoting: ShmerlThe audio crackling in the game though makes it pretty much unplayable. I'm waiting for some method to configure Pipewire to handle it better.

I just upgraded to Pop_OS 21.04. It's not using Pipewire, but I was affected by the crackling when I bought the game yesterday. Found a fix yesterday - this is for Steam launch options but maybe you can engineer for GOG?

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=40 %command%

Fingers crossed for you. I've played 25 minutes and it seems okay so far. I'm waiting for the inevitable bugs and so forth...
Shmerl Jul 8, 2021
I tried that - it didn't help even with PulseAudio proper. Some suggested using Pipewire - but it seems to make it worse even.
scaine Jul 8, 2021
Quoting: ShmerlI tried that - it didn't help even with PulseAudio proper. Some suggested using Pipewire - but it seems to make it worse even.

Huh. Worked for me, so it must be some core difference between Proton and Wine. That's a real shame - I guess you're waiting for a wine-staging fix then?

The only other thing I can think of is that I always edit my /etc/pulse/daemon.conf so that the default sample rate is 48000, instead of the insane 44100 it defaults to normally. Worth a try?
Shmerl Jul 8, 2021
Pipewire seems to be using that too:


pactl info
...
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.30)
Server Version: 14.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz


I'll check if going back to stock PulseAudio and doing some tweaks could help.

Last edited by Shmerl on 8 July 2021 at 4:13 pm UTC
Shmerl Jul 8, 2021
There could be some realtime related patches in Proton, but they are also in Wine staging.

See also this thread: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4450#issuecomment-869136858
scaine Jul 8, 2021
Quoting: ShmerlThere could be some realtime related patches in Proton, but they are also in Wine staging.

See also this thread: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4450#issuecomment-869136858

Pretty infuriating. I hope you get a breakthrough. I didn't actually try stock Proton - I'm using the new Proton 6.12-GE-1 version but I couldn't tell you whether it has specific sound/real-time patches.
Shmerl Jul 8, 2021
Quoting: scainePretty infuriating. I hope you get a breakthrough. I didn't actually try stock Proton - I'm using the new Proton 6.12-GE-1 version but I couldn't tell you whether it has specific sound/real-time patches.

I can try building that. Never experimented with GE versions before.
pete910 Jul 10, 2021
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: scainePretty infuriating. I hope you get a breakthrough. I didn't actually try stock Proton - I'm using the new Proton 6.12-GE-1 version but I couldn't tell you whether it has specific sound/real-time patches.

I can try building that. Never experimented with GE versions before.

Always used the GE versions , They have always worked netter than stock wine/proton for me in things like star citizen. Easy to use with lutris too as there is a build ready made for it within the release tar.
Shmerl Jul 11, 2021
Quoting: pete910Always used the GE versions , They have always worked netter than stock wine/proton for me in things like star citizen. Easy to use with lutris too as there is a build ready made for it within the release tar.

What is the best repo for GE versions?
Shmerl Jul 12, 2021
OK, I just tried running the game with Proton-GE without any priority tweaks (instead of Wine-staging) - and the crackling is gone! So it's clearly doable with some changes to Wine / libraries itself.
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