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[BUG] Audio crackling on steam deck
I've been noticing a weird audio crackle on my Steam Deck OLED for a while now, and I was finally able to diagnose it

I'm running steamOS 3.7.14 on a steam deck OLED, beta client.

This issue is mostly consistent on Aureole - Wings of hope (just the latest game I can confirm, lost track of how many others suffer), on the default settings, no performance profile, decky not installed.

These are the settings in game (they were transferred from PC but they trigger the but nonetheless) 1080p Fullscreen with 144fps game framerate limit (not gamescope limit, that's set at default 90fps with no tearing)

With these recording settings: Record in background, max 30fps, max 1080p, high bitrate.

Toggling "Recording microphone audio" toggles whether the horrible audio crackling occurs or not, turning it off completely solves the problem.

I hope this issue will be fixed (and that microphone recording is fixed too, it's got a myriad of issues including bad clipping)
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krispy 10 Aug @ 11:39pm 
Thank you so much for posting this. I knew turning recording off somehow fixed the crackle from other forum posts, but didn’t realize it was just the microphone audio as the root cause. Not ideal but I don’t normally use mic on the deck so I can live without it for now.

You’ve given me the best of both worlds for clipping games now without having static in my ears, so seriously thank you for helping diagnose this. Even with all the bugs I refuse to go back to other recording softwares so hopefully the recording feature reaches 1.0 soon.
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