Game disables sound

[agile trail]

Hi there,
I am new Linux user, and been happy with my Mint for a week now. I encounter a major issue, where when I start Path of Exile 2 via Steam - the system turns off all the sounds randomly. If YouTube is played in background the video will stop, and I won't be able to start any video (it will load indefinitely), the game does not output any audio too.

When I close the game it starts working again, and turning the game back fixes this issue. Headphones are still found in audio settings, and my microphone works even when the audio bug appears.

Any idea where to start my search? I haven't found anything in the web.

I am using: Wireless GSP 670 Sennheiser headset, they have their own dongle which connects with radio transmission (the headset is not found with Bluetooth).

[sharp rune]

try to show pipewire (sound server) logs. I currently am not at my PC and can't check if the command will work, but it should
journalctl --reverse --user -u pipewire -u wireplumber > ~/Desktop/soundlog.txt
it also creates a log sound on your desktop

you may need to replicate the issue first, then run the log command.

[agile trail]

Will check that, thanks

[agile trail]

it says that it cant find such catalouge or file:
journalctl --reverse --user -u pipewire -u wireplumber > -/Desktop/soundlog.txt
bash: -/Desktop/soundlog.txt: Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu

[sharp rune]

it's not -, it's a wave ~
alternatively you can use $HOME instead of ~

[agile trail]

got it working with journalctl --reverse --user -u pipewire -u wireplumber > /home/power/soundlog.txt

I will upload txt and check it once the bug appears again

[sharp rune]

how big is the file?

[agile trail]

1,6 MB

[sharp rune]

OK, try to re-create the issue and upload it here

[agile trail]

here is the soundlog, I've asked AI to mark troubles. It found two lines:

spa.alsa: hw:2,1,0p: snd_pcm_avail after recover: Przerwany potok

wireplumber[1391]: <WpSiAudioAdapter> failed to activate item: Object activation aborted: proxy destroyed

So when the audio stopped I did this command to restart pipewire:

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

This solved, but having to do this everytime this happens will be annoying 😐

[sharp rune]

well I can't tell why the line about broken pipe repeats that much or why it happens. what version of LM are you running?

[agile trail]

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

[sharp rune]

I was able to find this piece of thing online. seems to be the same thing as your issue
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=292324

[agile trail]

alrgiht, I got through the instructions at the end of the post.

The QUANT should be 1024-105 or 2048-2100, which only Firefox won't agree to work with

however, since this was not firefox causing this error, perhaps steam app set to the quant value will work. I will have to test and see