nm-5 wrote: > > Couldn't find info about this anywhere, but I have this really annoying > problem, whereby in games, be they ETQW (full version) or games included > in the stock Fedora distrib, have very bad sound quality. Lots of > crackling. The CPU usage of pulseaudio shoots up to 20% (that's on a dual > core Pentium D). > > I don't know if this is related to your problem but I had stuttery sound with Amarok and after a lot of searching found this on a web page: "The PulseAudio sound server has been rewritten to use timer-based audio scheduling instead of the traditional interrupt-driven approach. Timer-based scheduling may expose issues in some Alsa drivers. To turn timer-based scheduling off, replace the line load-module module-hal-detect in /etc/pulse/default.pa by load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0" Doing this and rebooted fixed the problem for me. Maybe it will help in your case? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Crackling-sound-in-games%2C-pulseaudio-CPU-usage-high-%28F10%29-tp20772659p20774736.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines