If you're having issues with audio in CS 2 add this argument
If you are using pipewire add -sdlaudiodriver pipewire to your CS 2 launch options.
For those using gamemoderun it would look like this: gamemoderun %command% -sdlaudiodriver pipewire
You should also be able to set the
SDL_AUDIODRIVERenvironment variable topipewireto get this effect globally.https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/FAQUsingSDL
Oh, dope, thanks! I hope this doesn't fuck up anything that's hardcoded to expect Pulse or something, but I guess I'll find out.
This is happening with dota 2 as well, probably it was messed up on the engine level.
Yeah, seems like it is preferring the ALSA backend. Sound initially worked for me because I had
pipewire-alsainstalled, but I couldn't do anything to change the volume.