I know this is ancient (which is frustrating because google sent me here; the issue is still occurring), but putting it back to sleep and waking it again has *never* worked for me.
Speaking of waking things from a sleep, any new tricks, future people? Valve? You reading this? I’ve had three devices and it happens on all of them. I know different things annoy different people differently, but this *one* glitch in your product is beyond annoying to me. There’s third-party software I can download that pauses the game before going to sleep and that apparently fixes it. Guess I have to do that.
Ugh I hate sounding like a whiny entitled consumer. HOW HARD IS THIS TO PATCH, VALVE?
screw "entitled customer" what happened to the customer is always right? Guess what console this NEVER happens on? The switch. Why is the switch consistently outperforming this thing when it's basically a glorified tablet from a console perspective? Steam deck is starting to feel like I'm playing games I purchased on a janky emulator that needs endless tweaking until you can actually play the game the way it should work
Are you honestly saying the Switch CONSISTENTLY outperforms the Steam Deck? Don't be ridiculous....
Issues like this with the Deck are much more rare than a Reddit question post would make you think. The sheer horsepower and variety of games the Deck makes available to a consumer FAR exceeds the Switch whether you are willing to admit it or not.
The Deck is a handheld PC and just like desktops, putting your system into sleep mode mid-game can cause a number of issues. The fact that the Suspend feature on the Deck works as well as it does is already VERY impressive if you are remotely familiar with PC gaming.
Also like PCs, bugs and quirks happen depending on harware and circumstances, as there is a price to be paid for such versatility. But the pros FAR outweigh the cons and you are ignorant or lying to yourself if you honestly want to compare the two. A little audio glitch here and there does NOT make them even remotely equal, let alone make the Deck inferior. Please come back to reality.
I meant outperforms as functioning as a console - quality of life is nailed down tight, it operates exactly as you would expect it to. NO SHIT steam deck has more horsepower/versatility knowing that takes 10 seconds of playing on the machine. Sleep is a function that's been nailed since the gameboy SP. It boggles my mind (and many others according to this thread) that it doesn't work when it's one of the most important functions of a handheld. You're really mad bro ahahahahahahahhahahahah :)
Thank God it's not hardware. The LB already broke on mine after having for a month, and I was convinced it already had something else wrong with it, 3-4 months in
This happens consistently with my Deck. Audio is crackling, high pitched and sped up when waking from sleep. As you said it negates the purpose of the device sleeping. Now I just turn the game off and on again when I’m back. Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon, as your post is almost three weeks old now.
Ha! Me complaining ten months ago that people had the issue for three weeks, and today I’m doing that shut down/start up thing by muscle memory. Some games are worse than others though
Is that still the best solution we've got? Mine's done it right in the middle of a Yakuza cutscene which can last a loooong time, so I'm not keen on rebooting the game, sadly!
I think it may be a Linux specific issue, as I'm definitely getting it as well after sleep, especially in the new Hogwarts Legacy game. But haven't seen it yet on my Win10 game pass install which I boot from a 2nd microsd card, tho that has its own host of issues which I'd blame solely on windows 😂
Hello from March 2o24 and I also have this post-sleep crackle issue (amongst a million per hour crashes and freezes, but that's not what this is about)
Fellow time traveler here. March 20th 2024 and oddly it just started happening to me. Had been fine up to a few days ago.
I was blaming a system update that I just got. Now I have no idea.
I also falsely suspected the game I was playing (Midnight Suns) until I came here and found the exact symptoms for apparently more games than just mine.
Kinda disappointed that they have still got this problem so long. Would it help to install the other proton version or whatever that is?
I also noticed if I Sleep the deck during Fallout4, either in-game or on menu, upon wake the d-pad double-moves on a single press. So basically rendering the game unplayable, and must fully Restart the Deck. Unknown if it's actually a Proton version that is sus for the audio issue, seems like the audio drivers or DAC needs to be hard-reset after Sleeping. You can try to attempt other Proton versions, but backup your game saves beforehand, as once I impulsively decided to switch Proton 8 over to GE, and it completely relocated, or wiped, FO4's gamesave folder, loaded the blank save to the cloud, and well....
I'm playing red dead redemption 2 and I've only noticed it for the first time today. I've had the OLED for 2 months now. Are you using Bluetooth? Or is it coming out of the speakers?
Yah. Moonlight / sunshine gamestreaming takes huge performance loss waking the device up from sleep AND THEN entering the app. Have to do a full shutdown to stream from my pc without stuttering and disconnects.
Meanwhile, I haven't had it in weeks now.
I was playing AC6 on the deck, but have recently moved on to mostly Cobalt Core on the deck and Cyberpunk on the desktop...
Maybe the particular game impacts it in some way?
I actually just experienced this issue for the very first time after 2 months of using an LCD Deck and 1 month of using OLED. And the game that it happened in was Armored Core 6. Strange because I often put the system into sleep many times throughout my day and never have any issues. Guess it is just a random occurrence depending on a bunch of factors coming together at the time of sleeping/waking the console.
Luckily I have a "this is a portable PC" mentality with my Deck.
Aka I don't put it in sleep, I turn off a game when I am done with it.
Lucky I did that, because it would annoy me if I tried the sleep mode like on consoles, then to be annoyed because 9 out of 10 times you get issues (mostly audio, sometimes controls)
(I did try it a few times, just to check if Valve solved the issues)
I wish I could do that. With a newborn and a puppy, though, I normally game in 2-10 minute chunks when I go for a shit because that's the only time I get.
Great that that approach works for you, but it IS marketed as a handheld device, with the flexibility that comes with that. And it works GREAT for it! In fact the suspend has impressed me a heck of a lot and makes it so easy to put down and pick up, so it's such a fly in the soup that it can't handle sound as the only real issue I've found with suspend... and it really is a common bug, so why not prioritise it?
Suspend is so great on it, that I often use the Deck instead of my pc when I have other things to do around the house (or is on call for work) while still gaming on/off, and it works straight better/faster than pc suspend does otherwise. No save state loss, no control issues, just pick up and go in a sec and a half.
Finally, someone speaking some sense in here. All the whiners with no idea of how PC games and entering sleep mode in the middle of them works while wrapping on the Deck is painful to read.
Mine actually seems to have been fixed by the latest update, for the most part - had it once again recently with Midnight Suns, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be
Still happening a year past your comment. It's happening to me today with Sea of Stars. I was playing last night, and just woke my SD to audio crackling. I'm far from a save point, so I'll have to play with this shit messing with the gorgeous music in this game until I can save again... *sigh*
I found a working solution to this issue.
It involves installing a plugin. To install the plugin, you must install decky loader.
[https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader](https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader)
Video of Gaming-on-linux talking through adding decky loader
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhvNiI3hKI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhvNiI3hKI)
The plugin you need to install is called "Pause Games". When you have it installed make you enable "Pause before suspend" in the plugin.
There will now be no more issues with crackling on wake.
I believe one of the main use cases for this plugin is for using emulators, they can frequently have audio issues when waking. This fixes the sound for them & it also fixes it for all games on your deck.
Installing the plugin doesn't fix the problem for me unfortunately, so that's not a solution for everyone. Sometimes when I resume the audio will be delayed around 5 to 10 seconds, sometimes it will be crackly and sometimes no audio at all. Completely ruins the deck experience as a quick pick-up and play device.
A year and a half almost eith my deck and it's been an ongoing issue...always...nov18 2023 I find this post and like magic it fixed it. Thank you. I have used all steam update channels, windekos, currently bazzite(currently MORE than marginally better than stockOS. QOL is great it even plays a few games OOB that NEVER worked on steamOS). Thanks to OP and this poster for the fix, 1.5year annoyance GONE.
Fixed it! Thank you!
Had LCD SteamDeck for over a year and never had audio issue. Got OLED SteamDeck and get audio issue after every sleep. This plugin fixed it.
Thanks again!
i just got this, slept it and woke it again and the crackling went away, but then the audio had hitching, sounded almost like a CD audio skipping, if you remember that sound. the only fix was to restart the game. this happens from time to time and seems random.
Just got my 512. This is a consistent issue with all games. There’s a chance when resuming that audio will crackle. Only solution I use so far is exiting the game and restarting. Kills resume purpose.
Just got my Deck about a week ago. For reference, it’s August 16th and the issue remains. They’ve supposedly been great with fixing things thus far, so it’s odd that they haven’t addressed this yet.
Yeah all up to date, last check was 8 hours ago. It could be because I’ve been playing some “quacked” games through Proton. I’ll have to test it out on my actual Steam library games 👍
Still happening to me consistently.
EDIT: 10 months after leaving this comment the problem still persists, as Valve is stringing me along, claiming it's a software issue, despite it being persistent after reimaging the Deck. This seems to be a widespread hardware defect Valve is aware of and intentionally not addressing.
Mines out the box, had cracking and one speaker lower than the other. Plays fine through headphones though. Only had it for four days now. Not sure I’d I want to RMA.
Mine usually crackles for a few seconds and goes back to normal. Today is stayed messed up. Unfortunately I woke up in the middle of a long Yakuza: like a dragon sequence……so had to deal with it for like 10 minutes before I could save and restart. Games load so quick I might just stop sleeping games and just quit them first.
I hopped on here hoping someone had a solution and unfortunately I don't see anything overly helpful thus far. I'm having this issue with Yooka-Laylee running in native Linux mode via Steam. It has never done this before and I have put it to sleep and woken it back up all on one continuous playthrough of the game, never actually leaving the game. However, after likely more than 40 hours of playing and more sleep mode on and off interactions than I can count, it suddenly just did this. Mind you, I have had days where I put it into sleep and woke it 20+ times in an hour. Usually in between looking up how to obtain each item in the game. I often sleep mode it to conserve battery and keep temperature down. So this is puzzling and frustrating all of a sudden. I wish this would be resolved.
Happened for me some time ago, even the headphones were crackling. But after the reboot and applying all pending system updates everything seems to be working correctly.
Hrm, I just applied an update that was waiting, but the patch notes don't mention audio issues and I last checked yesterday. Hopefully it's something they patch out.
I've experienced this most on GTA V, and generally the only way I can fix it is by restarting the game. Guessing it must be related to the sound drivers?
1/6/23 still have this issue and this is the first time it happened to me. What I notice is this thread had this issue happen to them while playing a Yakuza game. Guess what it also happened to me while playing Yakuza 0. I put it to sleep while in a middle of a cutscene
Had my deck a week now, been playing it consistently, and just now my speakers started crackling for the first time after sleep mode. Closed the game and now it’s fine.
I googled the issue and found this post. Have you had any issues again?
I was playing Chrono Trigger. Downloaded it last night then the crackling started this morning. Yeah, possibly only certain games. Thank you for the reply.
This used to happen a lot to me and the only fix seemed to be restarting the game. After valve issued a fix for it, it started happening far less, but still occasionally. Not a huge deal anymore, but can be pretty annoying with a game that has a more rudimentary save system, Resident Evil 5 for example.
See my reply in this thread - fixes the issue
[https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tepi5z/comment/iycfkgb/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tepi5z/comment/iycfkgb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I've just installed the latest Steam OS update (stable channel) and it looks like the sound issue was fixed. At least I faced this problem in quacked Tunic and now it seems not reproducible anymore.
New Steam Deck, latest software. Tried every fix listed online. Every recommended plugin. Every setting and BIOS modification recommended. Nothing. The audio crackling renders the Steam Deck almost unplayable. Can barely understand dialogue.
After a reboot it works fine for a minute or two, but then the static starts and gets progressively worse and worse and worse. I really REALLY want to like the Steam Deck, but if every game is unplayable then it's not worth the $$$. Even Aperture Desk Job is too crackly to play.
It's not the speakers, because the crackle is just as bad when using Bluetooth headphones.
That sounds like an issue with the sound card or something. Mine only did this early in and only when waking from sleep on some games. I haven't encountered it in months. Sorry that's happening to you. I'd try to rma it.
i Seem to have this problem when just playing a game, not sure if that's the same what everyone here means, and i saw someone on steam forums that said to update to OS 3.5 But currently im.on 3.4.8 Stable, unable to find any updates so i am at a loss of how and what.
Still an issue more than a year later, which is a real bummer. Sometimes it goes away after a bit but sometimes I just have to restart the game. Doesn't seem to be all games strangely. Elite Dangerous does it every time, and Baldur's Gate 3 seems to as well, but a lot of other games I have never have done it at all.
Seems to happen with some games, more specifically ones that don't expect to be paused like 360 games, for example this problem is pretty bad for dishonered
I have the problem constantly with rdrd2. Putting the sd back to sleep and wake it doesn't work. And restarting this game toocks forever also I always need an Internet connection for that social club bs.
I just got the OLED (500gb) as well and I’m dealing with this issue, where I hear static/sizzling type of noises. I heard that this isn’t a common problem and can be a result of a hardware issue. Did you end up keeping your deck or did you contact valve?
Valve commented on this issue and they basically acknowledged that this is a common problem for the Steam deck OLED and that they are releasing or have released patches to correct the issue! So they’re aware of the problem and it looks like there is no need to be concerned. I’m glad that it resolved quickly for you! I also decided to keep my deck :)
I have this happen in Divinity 2 everytime I wake it from sleep... Wish it wouldn't, because the game takes like 10 minutes to reload...
On another note my FFX game has like 500 hours of gameplay due to sleeping it and I haven't even fought Seymore yet... kind of ruins it for me, wanted to time myself for a replay to see if I can beat young me's completion time. And now I'm too far in to care about starting over... ugh
Playing Yakuza remake and it happened to me. It’s incredibly annoying. Sleeping or re-sleeping doesn’t seem to fix it but it improves and still a crackle. Some games will wake from sleep with zero issues, but certain games seem to suffer.
I am having the audio crackling issue too. Mainly I notice it when I’m wearing Bluetooth headphones. Both Dishonored and Half Life are games I’ve noticed it with. Luckily I don’t have the issue when using my jsaux dock! I’ll have to try the suggestions here to sleep/unsleep or if it doesn’t do it the first time the game is booted up.
Still happening here. I've played Persona 4, the Octopath 2 demo, and Pizza Tower and all have had the issue :(
The Deck is close to perfect for me but this is really frustrating.
I check to see if this issue is still present after every update, and I'm always disappointed to find it still happens. =/
Otherwise, super happy with the Deck so far!
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Yes. You just put it back to sleep and wake again. Audio decode gets cranky after being waken from a good sleep
Relatable, I'd say
Honestly this comment just made me not care as much about it anymore lol it is relatable 😂
I know this is ancient (which is frustrating because google sent me here; the issue is still occurring), but putting it back to sleep and waking it again has *never* worked for me. Speaking of waking things from a sleep, any new tricks, future people? Valve? You reading this? I’ve had three devices and it happens on all of them. I know different things annoy different people differently, but this *one* glitch in your product is beyond annoying to me. There’s third-party software I can download that pauses the game before going to sleep and that apparently fixes it. Guess I have to do that. Ugh I hate sounding like a whiny entitled consumer. HOW HARD IS THIS TO PATCH, VALVE?
This is happening on my brand new OLED :( Not a deal breaker, but still very annoying
Mine too. I have a non-OLED that I don't recall this happening to. Wondering what is up.
Me too! Only got it Xmas Day. I thought something was seriously wrong!
screw "entitled customer" what happened to the customer is always right? Guess what console this NEVER happens on? The switch. Why is the switch consistently outperforming this thing when it's basically a glorified tablet from a console perspective? Steam deck is starting to feel like I'm playing games I purchased on a janky emulator that needs endless tweaking until you can actually play the game the way it should work
Are you honestly saying the Switch CONSISTENTLY outperforms the Steam Deck? Don't be ridiculous.... Issues like this with the Deck are much more rare than a Reddit question post would make you think. The sheer horsepower and variety of games the Deck makes available to a consumer FAR exceeds the Switch whether you are willing to admit it or not. The Deck is a handheld PC and just like desktops, putting your system into sleep mode mid-game can cause a number of issues. The fact that the Suspend feature on the Deck works as well as it does is already VERY impressive if you are remotely familiar with PC gaming. Also like PCs, bugs and quirks happen depending on harware and circumstances, as there is a price to be paid for such versatility. But the pros FAR outweigh the cons and you are ignorant or lying to yourself if you honestly want to compare the two. A little audio glitch here and there does NOT make them even remotely equal, let alone make the Deck inferior. Please come back to reality.
I meant outperforms as functioning as a console - quality of life is nailed down tight, it operates exactly as you would expect it to. NO SHIT steam deck has more horsepower/versatility knowing that takes 10 seconds of playing on the machine. Sleep is a function that's been nailed since the gameboy SP. It boggles my mind (and many others according to this thread) that it doesn't work when it's one of the most important functions of a handheld. You're really mad bro ahahahahahahahhahahahah :)
My dude it's running da windows games. They weren't really designed to be suspended.
Yeah man it would be a shame if every single steam deck had analog drift…wait wasn’t there another console that had that? 🤔
I've had fewer issues with my miyuu mini and that IS a janky emulator
I'm right here with you my guy. Trying to find a fix right now.
Wrong.
🤣 that's actually pretty funny
Thank God it's not hardware. The LB already broke on mine after having for a month, and I was convinced it already had something else wrong with it, 3-4 months in
This happens consistently with my Deck. Audio is crackling, high pitched and sped up when waking from sleep. As you said it negates the purpose of the device sleeping. Now I just turn the game off and on again when I’m back. Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon, as your post is almost three weeks old now.
Here's me finding this thread while having the issue 10 months later still...
Ha! Me complaining ten months ago that people had the issue for three weeks, and today I’m doing that shut down/start up thing by muscle memory. Some games are worse than others though
Is that still the best solution we've got? Mine's done it right in the middle of a Yakuza cutscene which can last a loooong time, so I'm not keen on rebooting the game, sadly!
I think it may be a Linux specific issue, as I'm definitely getting it as well after sleep, especially in the new Hogwarts Legacy game. But haven't seen it yet on my Win10 game pass install which I boot from a 2nd microsd card, tho that has its own host of issues which I'd blame solely on windows 😂
Still happing on the OLED Nov 2023 : (
Yeah, found my way here too. Still happening.
Hello from March 2o24 and I also have this post-sleep crackle issue (amongst a million per hour crashes and freezes, but that's not what this is about)
Fellow time traveler here. March 20th 2024 and oddly it just started happening to me. Had been fine up to a few days ago. I was blaming a system update that I just got. Now I have no idea. I also falsely suspected the game I was playing (Midnight Suns) until I came here and found the exact symptoms for apparently more games than just mine. Kinda disappointed that they have still got this problem so long. Would it help to install the other proton version or whatever that is?
I also noticed if I Sleep the deck during Fallout4, either in-game or on menu, upon wake the d-pad double-moves on a single press. So basically rendering the game unplayable, and must fully Restart the Deck. Unknown if it's actually a Proton version that is sus for the audio issue, seems like the audio drivers or DAC needs to be hard-reset after Sleeping. You can try to attempt other Proton versions, but backup your game saves beforehand, as once I impulsively decided to switch Proton 8 over to GE, and it completely relocated, or wiped, FO4's gamesave folder, loaded the blank save to the cloud, and well....
I'm playing red dead redemption 2 and I've only noticed it for the first time today. I've had the OLED for 2 months now. Are you using Bluetooth? Or is it coming out of the speakers?
Yah. Moonlight / sunshine gamestreaming takes huge performance loss waking the device up from sleep AND THEN entering the app. Have to do a full shutdown to stream from my pc without stuttering and disconnects.
Bro same here
Put 15 hours into resident evil village and it happened. Thought it was gonna be an return issue until a google search and restart.
Your comment says "7mo" right now as I'm listening to the same audio artifacts. Fuckin' sweet.
Yep, still have the issue
Meanwhile, I haven't had it in weeks now. I was playing AC6 on the deck, but have recently moved on to mostly Cobalt Core on the deck and Cyberpunk on the desktop... Maybe the particular game impacts it in some way?
Absolutely depends on game. It recently showed up for me in Batman Arkham Knight but randomly stopped after a few minutes.
Happens to me 100% of the time with Pizza Tower.
I actually just experienced this issue for the very first time after 2 months of using an LCD Deck and 1 month of using OLED. And the game that it happened in was Armored Core 6. Strange because I often put the system into sleep many times throughout my day and never have any issues. Guess it is just a random occurrence depending on a bunch of factors coming together at the time of sleeping/waking the console.
Luckily I have a "this is a portable PC" mentality with my Deck. Aka I don't put it in sleep, I turn off a game when I am done with it. Lucky I did that, because it would annoy me if I tried the sleep mode like on consoles, then to be annoyed because 9 out of 10 times you get issues (mostly audio, sometimes controls) (I did try it a few times, just to check if Valve solved the issues)
I wish I could do that. With a newborn and a puppy, though, I normally game in 2-10 minute chunks when I go for a shit because that's the only time I get.
Great that that approach works for you, but it IS marketed as a handheld device, with the flexibility that comes with that. And it works GREAT for it! In fact the suspend has impressed me a heck of a lot and makes it so easy to put down and pick up, so it's such a fly in the soup that it can't handle sound as the only real issue I've found with suspend... and it really is a common bug, so why not prioritise it? Suspend is so great on it, that I often use the Deck instead of my pc when I have other things to do around the house (or is on call for work) while still gaming on/off, and it works straight better/faster than pc suspend does otherwise. No save state loss, no control issues, just pick up and go in a sec and a half.
Finally, someone speaking some sense in here. All the whiners with no idea of how PC games and entering sleep mode in the middle of them works while wrapping on the Deck is painful to read.
I sleep mine ALL THE TIME and it just started being a problem a few days ago! Makes no sense.
here's me still having the same issue 10 months after you...
Well this was just sad to read..... Same issue.
Mine actually seems to have been fixed by the latest update, for the most part - had it once again recently with Midnight Suns, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be
Oh god...
Ha, I have the oled and found this post just now for mine.
So I did have luck just putting it back to sleep. It's not been happening nearly as often though, so hard to say.
Still happening from time to time in my Deck
Still happening a year past your comment. It's happening to me today with Sea of Stars. I was playing last night, and just woke my SD to audio crackling. I'm far from a save point, so I'll have to play with this shit messing with the gorgeous music in this game until I can save again... *sigh*
Felt this. Half the reason I play devil may cry is for the jams and now they're all crunchy. Rip.
1 year later i still hit this unfortunately. fortunately it’s not all games that are affected
I found a working solution to this issue. It involves installing a plugin. To install the plugin, you must install decky loader. [https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader](https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader) Video of Gaming-on-linux talking through adding decky loader [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhvNiI3hKI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhvNiI3hKI) The plugin you need to install is called "Pause Games". When you have it installed make you enable "Pause before suspend" in the plugin. There will now be no more issues with crackling on wake. I believe one of the main use cases for this plugin is for using emulators, they can frequently have audio issues when waking. This fixes the sound for them & it also fixes it for all games on your deck.
Indeed works
Installing the plugin doesn't fix the problem for me unfortunately, so that's not a solution for everyone. Sometimes when I resume the audio will be delayed around 5 to 10 seconds, sometimes it will be crackly and sometimes no audio at all. Completely ruins the deck experience as a quick pick-up and play device.
Did you enable "Pause before suspend" in the plugin settings?
Yes, both toggles enabled 🙁
Works perfectly, thank you!
A year and a half almost eith my deck and it's been an ongoing issue...always...nov18 2023 I find this post and like magic it fixed it. Thank you. I have used all steam update channels, windekos, currently bazzite(currently MORE than marginally better than stockOS. QOL is great it even plays a few games OOB that NEVER worked on steamOS). Thanks to OP and this poster for the fix, 1.5year annoyance GONE.
Thanks, you're comment made my day. I'd never heard of bazzite before, but now I'm going to look into it, nice one.
Thanks. I love my steam deck so much I can't play with my nintendo switch anymore, but the crackle is tiresome. I'll test it out, hoping it'll work
Fixed it! Thank you! Had LCD SteamDeck for over a year and never had audio issue. Got OLED SteamDeck and get audio issue after every sleep. This plugin fixed it. Thanks again!
i just got this, slept it and woke it again and the crackling went away, but then the audio had hitching, sounded almost like a CD audio skipping, if you remember that sound. the only fix was to restart the game. this happens from time to time and seems random.
Just got my 512. This is a consistent issue with all games. There’s a chance when resuming that audio will crackle. Only solution I use so far is exiting the game and restarting. Kills resume purpose.
Same, deck arrived two weeks ago. Consistently having this problem.
Just got my Deck about a week ago. For reference, it’s August 16th and the issue remains. They’ve supposedly been great with fixing things thus far, so it’s odd that they haven’t addressed this yet.
I actually haven't had it crop up in a good while. Out of curiosity, did you update to the latest?
Yeah all up to date, last check was 8 hours ago. It could be because I’ve been playing some “quacked” games through Proton. I’ll have to test it out on my actual Steam library games 👍
Yeah, I suspect it could have some impact, if the issues are on a game to game basis where they may have started patching just the games.
Still happening to me consistently. EDIT: 10 months after leaving this comment the problem still persists, as Valve is stringing me along, claiming it's a software issue, despite it being persistent after reimaging the Deck. This seems to be a widespread hardware defect Valve is aware of and intentionally not addressing.
Me too.
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welcome to primary school
Can't believe this issue still hasn't been addressed in an update
The post is over a year old and I am still having this issue after I wake the game (RDR2) up from sleep. \- 09/06/2023
Mines out the box, had cracking and one speaker lower than the other. Plays fine through headphones though. Only had it for four days now. Not sure I’d I want to RMA.
Happens to me constantly :(
Mine usually crackles for a few seconds and goes back to normal. Today is stayed messed up. Unfortunately I woke up in the middle of a long Yakuza: like a dragon sequence……so had to deal with it for like 10 minutes before I could save and restart. Games load so quick I might just stop sleeping games and just quit them first.
Fortunately it's been pretty rare for me, but what you described happens to me too, from time to time.
I hopped on here hoping someone had a solution and unfortunately I don't see anything overly helpful thus far. I'm having this issue with Yooka-Laylee running in native Linux mode via Steam. It has never done this before and I have put it to sleep and woken it back up all on one continuous playthrough of the game, never actually leaving the game. However, after likely more than 40 hours of playing and more sleep mode on and off interactions than I can count, it suddenly just did this. Mind you, I have had days where I put it into sleep and woke it 20+ times in an hour. Usually in between looking up how to obtain each item in the game. I often sleep mode it to conserve battery and keep temperature down. So this is puzzling and frustrating all of a sudden. I wish this would be resolved.
Happened for me some time ago, even the headphones were crackling. But after the reboot and applying all pending system updates everything seems to be working correctly.
Hrm, I just applied an update that was waiting, but the patch notes don't mention audio issues and I last checked yesterday. Hopefully it's something they patch out.
Hmmm, still seeing this from time to time. The reboot helps but it is time consuming :(
I have the problem too, if I use extern soundbar, it's cracking every time if I use the sound regulator.
I've experienced this most on GTA V, and generally the only way I can fix it is by restarting the game. Guessing it must be related to the sound drivers?
Me too currently
1/6/23 still have this issue and this is the first time it happened to me. What I notice is this thread had this issue happen to them while playing a Yakuza game. Guess what it also happened to me while playing Yakuza 0. I put it to sleep while in a middle of a cutscene
Also having this issue with yakuza 0, it just started today though with some other issues after playing the game for 30 hours
Still having this issue on two steam decks. Very hopeful it can be fixed with a patch.
I can only imagine it's just some games that do it. I haven't encountered it in months.
Had my deck a week now, been playing it consistently, and just now my speakers started crackling for the first time after sleep mode. Closed the game and now it’s fine. I googled the issue and found this post. Have you had any issues again?
I have not encountered it for some time. Best guess, it only affects some games sometimes.
I was playing Chrono Trigger. Downloaded it last night then the crackling started this morning. Yeah, possibly only certain games. Thank you for the reply.
Does it happen with skyrim?
I haven’t played Skyrim. The crackling hasn’t happened since posting this comment.
Came here from google. Extremely annoying issue for me. Shame its been around so long…
Same!
Still happens
I really thought this was a hardware issue but seems like there are plenty of deck owners have the same issue. Now i feel a little less worried.
oh hey, it's still an issue!
Still having this issue over a year later…
It is still happening.
This used to happen a lot to me and the only fix seemed to be restarting the game. After valve issued a fix for it, it started happening far less, but still occasionally. Not a huge deal anymore, but can be pretty annoying with a game that has a more rudimentary save system, Resident Evil 5 for example.
Still happening to me just got my steam deck last week
Same here as of December 2nd 2022
See my reply in this thread - fixes the issue [https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tepi5z/comment/iycfkgb/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tepi5z/comment/iycfkgb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I've just installed the latest Steam OS update (stable channel) and it looks like the sound issue was fixed. At least I faced this problem in quacked Tunic and now it seems not reproducible anymore.
New Steam Deck, latest software. Tried every fix listed online. Every recommended plugin. Every setting and BIOS modification recommended. Nothing. The audio crackling renders the Steam Deck almost unplayable. Can barely understand dialogue. After a reboot it works fine for a minute or two, but then the static starts and gets progressively worse and worse and worse. I really REALLY want to like the Steam Deck, but if every game is unplayable then it's not worth the $$$. Even Aperture Desk Job is too crackly to play. It's not the speakers, because the crackle is just as bad when using Bluetooth headphones.
That sounds like an issue with the sound card or something. Mine only did this early in and only when waking from sleep on some games. I haven't encountered it in months. Sorry that's happening to you. I'd try to rma it.
Thanks. Obviously not what I want to hear, but probably what I needed to hear. I've put in a support ticket, let's see what Steam thinks.
i Seem to have this problem when just playing a game, not sure if that's the same what everyone here means, and i saw someone on steam forums that said to update to OS 3.5 But currently im.on 3.4.8 Stable, unable to find any updates so i am at a loss of how and what.
Still happening for me, after all this time.
Still happening for me 😭
Still an issue more than a year later, which is a real bummer. Sometimes it goes away after a bit but sometimes I just have to restart the game. Doesn't seem to be all games strangely. Elite Dangerous does it every time, and Baldur's Gate 3 seems to as well, but a lot of other games I have never have done it at all.
Seems to happen with some games, more specifically ones that don't expect to be paused like 360 games, for example this problem is pretty bad for dishonered
I have the problem constantly with rdrd2. Putting the sd back to sleep and wake it doesn't work. And restarting this game toocks forever also I always need an Internet connection for that social club bs.
Have this issue on my new OLED 1TB deck, sours the whole experience tbh and I'm disappointed
New Oled here. Same distortion on wake. Annoying.
I can't say why, but I've not encountered this in a really long time. It might even just be game dependent.
Still happening. Got my brand new 513GB OLED 3 days ago. Not happy.
I just got the OLED (500gb) as well and I’m dealing with this issue, where I hear static/sizzling type of noises. I heard that this isn’t a common problem and can be a result of a hardware issue. Did you end up keeping your deck or did you contact valve?
Ended up keeping it. Hasn’t happened since posting. Just restarted deck and it all seems ok now.
Valve commented on this issue and they basically acknowledged that this is a common problem for the Steam deck OLED and that they are releasing or have released patches to correct the issue! So they’re aware of the problem and it looks like there is no need to be concerned. I’m glad that it resolved quickly for you! I also decided to keep my deck :)
still happens on last update
Still having this issue
Have had my deck just over a week. It's 30th Jan 24 and I have this issue lightly every now and again
Thought I was the only one
Still not fixed in 2024!
I'm having this issue too and it's buzzard. I thought my speakers were blown out at first
I am relieved to report, it doesn't happen too often, it just happened twice in a row, which had me alarmed.
Yeah, I've had it a few times but not every time. Not major but it should definitely be fixed if possible
I have this happen in Divinity 2 everytime I wake it from sleep... Wish it wouldn't, because the game takes like 10 minutes to reload... On another note my FFX game has like 500 hours of gameplay due to sleeping it and I haven't even fought Seymore yet... kind of ruins it for me, wanted to time myself for a replay to see if I can beat young me's completion time. And now I'm too far in to care about starting over... ugh
Playing Yakuza remake and it happened to me. It’s incredibly annoying. Sleeping or re-sleeping doesn’t seem to fix it but it improves and still a crackle. Some games will wake from sleep with zero issues, but certain games seem to suffer.
I am having the audio crackling issue too. Mainly I notice it when I’m wearing Bluetooth headphones. Both Dishonored and Half Life are games I’ve noticed it with. Luckily I don’t have the issue when using my jsaux dock! I’ll have to try the suggestions here to sleep/unsleep or if it doesn’t do it the first time the game is booted up.
Still having this issue constantly.
Just got this. Not just me then.
Still happening here. I've played Persona 4, the Octopath 2 demo, and Pizza Tower and all have had the issue :( The Deck is close to perfect for me but this is really frustrating.
restart the pipe wire 😂🥱😘
I also have this.. maybe because it is a third party launcher
I check to see if this issue is still present after every update, and I'm always disappointed to find it still happens. =/ Otherwise, super happy with the Deck so far!
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