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If you are using pipewire add -sdlaudiodriver pipewire to your CS 2 launch options.

For those using gamemoderun it would look like this: gamemoderun %command% -sdlaudiodriver pipewire

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should also be able to set the SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable to pipewire to get this effect globally.

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/FAQUsingSDL

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, dope, thanks! I hope this doesn't fuck up anything that's hardcoded to expect Pulse or something, but I guess I'll find out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For flatpak steam, you need to run this:

flatpak override --user --filesystem=/run/user/1000/pipewire-0 com.valvesoftware.Steam

Then -sdlaudiodriver pipewire launch option will work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is happening with dota 2 as well, probably it was messed up on the engine level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, seems like it is preferring the ALSA backend. Sound initially worked for me because I had pipewire-alsa installed, but I couldn't do anything to change the volume.