Good suggestion, unfortunately I don’t have an extra empty drive. For the time being I’m mitigiating the audio issue with the fix suggested by the top comment (higher min-quantum), hopefully PoP 24 ships with “better” defaults and fixes this out of the box!
I’m new to Linux (and very inexperienced, since PoP just worked out of the box until now), so I can’t relate haha though apparently the audio crackling is due to the CPU not being fast enough to do everything it’s required to, and when it starts lagging behind too much and can’t respect the min-quantum value anymore, the weird audio issue shows up.
setting min-quantum to a higher value (PoP ships with 32 min, I set it to 256) mitigates the issue a lot
HW is in top shape, so no issues there. Pipewire is the deafult on PoP.
As the top comment suggested, the issue is in the min-quantum value being too low. Not a HW issue per se, it’s just that the CPU can’t keep up.
Thanks though!
It’s not a laptop so I don’t have power saving options that would affect performance (I only see automatic suspend and screen inactivity).
I tried performance power mode, but that did nothing for crackling. The only thing that works is setting the min-quantum value like the top comment suggested. Thanks!
Kernel is 6.17.4, not the latest but not that outdated I think. I’m. not jumping onto the beta since the full release is just a few days away, in the meantime I’ll make do with the workaround for the audio issue. Thanks!
Thanks for the reply and sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
Your solution works and 256 is enough to get rid of basically all cracklings, thank you!
yes, PSU is enough: it’s a 550W unit (quality one) and GPU specsheet suggests 450W; draw is similar to the old card’s (178W vs. ~165W)
No, my audio output comes directly from the motherboard
Very nice, Lutris works great but Playnite’s beautiful GUI is something I’ve been missing since I got rid of MS
I can’t really tell, because your use-case is very different from mine and could change in the future. a 5600 gets you 250+ FPS at 1024*768 in CS2, and with it the bottleneck in other, more modern games, will be the GPU instead, so I think spending 20% more for a 5700X when the 5600 is more than enough for your monitor is a bit of wasted money… you could save that for a newer GPU once you find that yours isn’t enough anymore.
just watch videos titled 5600 RX580 + name-of-the-game-you-play and then do the same with 5700X instead and see for yourself if it’s worth the higjer price or not!
did you mean 5600F? (never mind, I read 5600i lol) for €11, get the X then because the F is a step below the 5600.
depending on how much you want to spend, and keeping in mind that the 5600 is more than enough to get to your maximum refresh rate, an then some, I’d get the 5600/5600X and save the money.
at your resolution (1024*768?) that video shows even higher FPS so I really don’t see the need to go for a 5700X.
you’re right that your current bottleneck is the CPU
I can also vouch for PoP_OS!, get the .iso with baked-in nVidia drivers and you will have no problems. The biggest issue I’ve had so far is that sometimes, after updating graphics drivers, FPS get stuck at like ~10 and I need to reboot. But happens rarely, and it takes ten seconds to fix
How much is the 5600 (non x)? because the FPS difference between the two is around 5-8%. I remember that when I went from a 2600x to a 5600 I got a nice fps boost at 1440p (don’t remember how much but I feel like it was 10-15%, maybe more), granted with a better GPU and not in CS2, but you will see a difference.
According to this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95JcvPyxPiQ
5600 + RX580 averages 200ish fps at 1080p low
also, doesn’t hurt to test, but iirc my 2600x couldn’t handle RAM any faster than 3100something, 3200 would crash as soon as I started a 3D application
Bad word
A bit less recent, 25.1.5