Who's playing this game on GNU+Linux?

[Sally]

Post below if you do.

As for me I've been daily driving a couple flavors of GNU+Linux for the last years, which in no particular order are; Debian, Gentoo, Void (GOAT) and Arch/Artix (fuck pacman) and I've noticed a common issue throughout any distributions and AMD /Nvidia GPUs over the last year, which is that audio tends to cut and stutter whenever there's some kind of video+audio decoding happening and audio output goes through the GPU (HDMI or Displayport).

Turns out something -the kernel or the shitty proprietary software baked onto these GPUs- is too lax with factory default clock and memory speeds and that causes very annoying and very hard to debug issues with audio. The solution was to override the automatic clock speeds and pump them up, all issues disappeared, audio playback works as intended no matter if software or hardware decoding. Overclocking also increased performance overall with no drawbacks, so if you're experiencing performance issues on your desktop give it a go, I'd dare to say that this is a mandatory step because otherwise your GPU is crippled on top of Linux.

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"I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute." - RMS