Fix Crackling Audio in Wine/Proton After waking up from hibernate/Sleep
1. Edit /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf to add these lines: context.properties = { default.clock.quantum = 1024 default.clock.min-quantum = 1024 } If you can't find the pipewire.conf, find it in any of the additional locations mentioned in the official doc 2. Edit usr/share/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf and add these lines: stream.properties = { resample.quality = 10 } pulse.properties = { pulse.min.req = 1024/48000 pulse.default.req = 1024/48000 pulse.min.frag = 256/48000 pulse.min.quantum = 256/48000 } 3. Restart pipewire and pipewire-pulse systemd services. systemctl --user restart pipewire-pulse.service systemctl --user restart pipewire.service source: Comment by u/ReakDuck from discussion in archlinux