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Mech Warrior Online decreases audio quality sytem wide

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8688 · opened 2025-05-12 by ghost · updated 2025-05-12 · 1 comments · github
?ghost 2025-05-12 github

Compatibility Report

-MechWarrior Online
-Steam App ID:342200

System Information

  • AMD RX6800 GPU, default Fedora 42 GPU driver
    -Fedora 42
    -Kernel Linux 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64
    -unmodified system
    -Proton version 9.0-4

I confirm:

  • [Y] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [Y] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

When MWO is launched it degrades system wide audio quality in all other programs. Firefox, Chromium, VLC, Clementine, gnome-videos. Using a bluetooth audio headset.

Reproduction

  1. install steam, mechwarrior online
  2. launch mwo
  3. system wide audio quality degrades for all programs until mwo is closed

My fedora 42 system is completely unmodified and is up to date. This issue has exited for multiple versions of Fedora, and is most likely related to Proton dragging down system wide audio quality.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-05-12 github

Hello @buggyfound, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1340#issuecomment-2872330575.

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