SteamDeck OLED - audio stutter/crackling

[francoism90]

Describe the bug

I'm playing Ender Magnolia, but the audio is broken. I also experience frame drops, maybe they are related?

All updates have been installed.

What did you expect to happen?

No audio stutter, it seems to be related to the frame rate?

Output of rpm-ostree status

bazzite@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:7f7fc8a89ff3ff50f28658ec439a7202c0d569db275b4f18c1cbec7cf3ea1fe5
                  Version: 41.20250206 (2025-02-06T18:01:33Z)

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:bfc458a58bb0de89b4e0f041476c304a6d6b559f58d36f9f394fa93ea4bea5a2
                  Version: 41.20250203 (2025-02-03T05:06:39Z)

Hardware

Galileo (SteamDeck OLED)

Extra information or context

It also happens in other games.

[francoism90]

After choosing the beta channel, it has become a bit better.

I think it's related to the Linux 6.12 which has a lot of frame rate/graphical corruption issues, which causes the audio to become out-of-sync.

I don't really know a real solution. I've also tried increasing Pipewire buffers, but it doesn't do a lot.

[francoism90]

Going back to what Valve offers, this distro isn't stable.