Proton: Steam play/Wine Crackling, popping, echoing Sound fix

[setsunati]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-Ml78kiEE

[ryanmusante]

Indeed, distro maintainers should make these settings defaults for desktop based.

However I disagree with some of them and recommend in place:

default-sample-format = s16le #keep default
default-sample-rate = 44100 #lowering reduces quality 
alternate-sample-rate = 48000 #lowering reduces quality 

[kisak-valve]

Hello @setsunati, I'm closing this as it appears to be only informational and not an actionable issue report.

[noidexe]

Indeed, distro maintainers should make these settings defaults for desktop based.

However I disagree with some of them and recommend in place:

default-sample-format = s16le #keep default
default-sample-rate = 44100 #lowering reduces quality 
alternate-sample-rate = 48000 #lowering reduces quality 

In my case (latest Manjaro) I tried every option one by one without success until I increased the sample rate as indicated in the webpage and it fixed the crackling noise.
I was able to keep the default sample format, though.

[ryanmusante]

_PulseAudio/Troubleshooting < PulseAudio_

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Laggy_sound

_Optimize PulseAudio for Steam: Latency, Realtime and Noise / Echo Cancellation_

https://ludwig.im/en/projects/steam-pulseaudio-sound-latency-lagging-problem-noise#optimize-pulseaudio-settings-for-steam-games