devildark
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I'm on gentoo, and these are my observations of both PSOBB and FFXI retail (same crackling):
- Raw ALSA, Pulseaudio, Pipewire makes no difference whatsoever. Tried troubleshooting each and no particular config change made a significant difference.
- Rather what seems to make the biggest different is whether the wine version you're using uses the staging patchset or not.
- wine-proton-7.0-5 and wine-vanilla-8.2 (no staging patches) have no crackle and work perfectly. wine-staging-8.2 has crackle. Lutris' inbuilt wine versions all (that I tried and remember) have crackle, so I assume they use the staging patchset too.
- Staging/lutris versions seem required to get the launcher to actually work (unless this is some weird gecko or dotnet version nonsense on my end), but cause crackle in game. wine-proton 7.0-5 can't get into the launcher but can get into the game and has no crackle. Thanks to lutris (and gentoo's slotting) it's easy enough to switch wine versions if I have to go into the launcher for something, but it's still a pain. Also, neither the launcher nor the game work with wine-vanilla-8.2. Must be a regression in there. Tried wine-vanilla-7.0.1 and the launcher process starts but the actual window never shows up. Like wine-proton it can get ingame, but unlike proton the game gets stuck on a black screen.