On Wed May 13 08:42:09 2026 +0000, Dzmitry Keremsha wrote:
Did some more testing. First of all - the patch works very well, no issues whatsoever. Second - don't have any underflow issues even with quant 256 and the default Arch kernel in NtE or Honkai, so whatever used to cause them is gone. With Honkai probably forgot to turn off logging back then - it does cause underflows by itself since it's quite spammy. Now I remove all the spammy stuff when I look for the underflows, but there are none so far. I do see people asking for help regarding crackling on forums somewhat often, but that might be attributed to either old PipeWire defaults (it was below quant 256 in pw-pulse), or the old winepulse patch. After PipeWire 1.6 is more widely adopted and the pulse patch goes to stable it would become more clear if some issues persist, but so far everything looks good and doesn't require any tinkering. Thanks a lot for checking. I guess I will still consider that MR a draft for now, this is a sensitive change which can use some broader feedback while in Proton Experimental. Besides, now with system threads introduced the audio stream threads in all the Wine audio drivers can be made such and that will remove a clumsy move exiting the stream thread in that MR which is still created.
-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10792#note_139711