Wrong default audio device for proton titles

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ValveSoftware/Proton#2120 · opened 2018-12-22 by MayeulC · updated 2019-05-18 · 2 comments · github

MMayeulC 2018-12-22 github

(Using the issue template from steam-for-linux)

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Dec 14 2018 at 22:19:08
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
Audio API: Pulseaudio 12.2
Desktop environment: KDE plasma 5 (X.org)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Expected behaviour:

When launching a Proton title, I expect it to choose my default audio device as an output.
For reference, I have three outputs:

(pulseaudio index 1) HDMI port on my R9 Fury card
(pulseaudio index 2) Analog output on my motherboard
(pulseaudio index 3, default) USB headset

Observed behaviour:

Instead, proton games always choose the second device, and I must manually switch them to the correct one at first launch.

Most native titles do not exhibit this issue, even if some do exhibit other ones (FEZ always switches back to the second one, it seems).

This can get annoying as some titles cut their audio output when they lose focus, making it hard to switch devices.

Aaeikum 2019-01-02 github

Can you list a couple specific games that show this problem for you?

MMayeulC 2019-05-18 github

This turned out to be completely my fault, sorry for not following up earlier on this.

I hanged my $HOME to prevent steam from cluttering it [which is a big issue to me], but that prevented pulseaudio from accessing the correct settings. Symlinking $NEWHOME/.config/pulse to $HOME/.config/pulse worked around the issue.

Thank you for your help, and sorry for the noise.

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