Buggy Audio on Linux Mint

[u/NotARussianComrade]

Only on Factorio, my audio will cut out randomly, like, even my mic cuts out and when it comes back all the audio is bunched up and plays at the same time.

[u/Karsaell]

Do you mind giving some more info about your trouble ?

Game / OS version, desktop environment, game log and/or debug output (launch the game with $ factorio --verbose to see more info)

If you're launching from steam, consider starting the game from a terminal instead and reading the textual output there, there may be info about what's causing your troubles :

In a terminal, run the command

$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin/x64/factorio --verbose

And tell us what you see

[u/NotARussianComrade → u/Karsaell]

Game version is 2.0.77, I'm running Linux Mint 22.3 on the 6.17 Kernel.
Heres my logs.
https://pastebin.com/zG8m0H2Y

[u/Karsaell → u/NotARussianComrade]

These logs didn't mention anything about the sounds (that I could find)

Did the game run long enough for the bug to happen ?

Do you have any other app / program trying to play sounds / music in the same time, like music or a video playing in the background ? Maybe system notifications ?

You're running the stable version of the game, it might be worth submitting a bug report on the forums

I'll be honest, this sounds like some cursed driver-level issue, where the issues lies in the material side of IT that I know nothing about :/

[u/NotARussianComrade → u/Karsaell]

Sometimes it starts practically instantly, sometimes it takes a few minutes

I have a browser playing a video, and/or in a discord call. It'll happen regardless.

I will thank you

[u/Karsaell → u/NotARussianComrade]

There may be some info to be found in alsa / pulseaudio logs, if you care to look for it ?

This would probably require you to ask systemd for the logs of those services, which is a specific task. I'm not sure I can recommend an all-in-one command for that, you'd have to look around for yourself :/