Kubuntu Lutris WoW sound deteriorating

[claydoh]

You Sir are a genius

Good lord, no
I just know how to recognize some gold, silver, or copper in a landfill.

Hopefully it has fixed things for you.

[darren7659]

You Sir are a genius. I watched the video and found the ALSA runner buried in advanced settings.

Thank you very very much

[claydoh]

Each runner, whether wine, or GE-Proton or similar will have configuration settings (a gear icon or similar), not general preferences.
(still downloading lutris.....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3b0w2yEo34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8zsfqsgfw

[darren7659]

It says I have Wine and Linux as runners. When I go into Preferences there's no listing for alsa or anything sound related. Thanks for your help

[claydoh]

Somewhere in the runner settings, I don't have Lutiris installed on this system, and I sold off my gaming PC stuff. It see what I can do for screenshot. It may taker a spell as I am on a slow mobile connection.
And Lutris reallllyyyy lacks any sort of doumentation

[darren7659]

Try different runners, as well as changing the runner's audio driver to alsa or other things
Sound issues in WoW seem to be common over many many years.

How do I do that please?

[claydoh]

Try different runners, as well as changing the runner's audio driver to alsa or other things
Sound issues in WoW seem to be common over many many years.

[darren7659]

~$ inxi -xxz --audio
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-45-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active



~$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio
Invalid unit name "pulseaudio" escaped as "pulseaudio\xe2\x80\x8b" (maybe you sho>
Unit pulseaudio\xe2\x80\x8b.service could not be found.



~$ systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-09-22 08:22:08 BST; 4min 42s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 1686512 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 19035)
Memory: 5.0M (peak: 5.2M)
CPU: 87ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1001.slice/user@1001.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─1686512 /usr/bin/pipewire

Sep 22 08:22:08 homepc systemd[1686500]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Sep 22 08:22:08 homepc pipewire[1686512]: mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.jackaudio.service was not provided by any .service files

[Virginio Miranda]

Hi, I installed World of Warcraft using Lutris and everything runs perfectly for the first 15 minutes then the sound deteriorates into crackling so badly I have to play without sound. Not ideal.

I'm running Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with the Nvidia 550.107.02 driver. Sound is an onboard Intel chip by default. Everything is up to date.

I've used Pipewire, ALSA, Pulse audio. I've tried different sound cards (even speakers fwiw). Nothing has worked.

If anyone could solve this for me they would be instantly on my Xmas card list

Thanks in advance.

Is the problem only happens with WW using Lutris? What about the others fonts of audio?

check this output:

$ inxi -xxz --audio

check this too:

$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio

and

$ systemctl --user status pipewire

[Virginio Miranda]

Could this be the problem and there is a conflict?

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I believe not. It seems OK.

[darren7659]

Could this be the problem and there is a conflict?

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[darren7659]

Hi, I installed World of Warcraft using Lutris and everything runs perfectly for the first 15 minutes then the sound deteriorates into crackling so badly I have to play without sound. Not ideal.

I'm running Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with the Nvidia 550.107.02 driver. Sound is an onboard Intel chip by default. Everything is up to date.

I've used Pipewire, ALSA, Pulse audio. I've tried different sound cards (even speakers fwiw). Nothing has worked.

If anyone could solve this for me they would be instantly on my Xmas card list

Thanks in advance.

SOLVED: In Wine's advanced configuration settings inside Lutris there is an option to change audio runner to ALSA

Many thanks to Claydoh and Virginio.