I have sound crackling when i run games from Steam (also with Proton) and play videos in Firefox or have a voice chat in Discord (microfon also affected by this issue) even notifications come with cracking.
It seems to some buffers are full or sampling frequency needs to be changed?
When i start any game i have no crackling, it start apearing after a few minutes.
Previously i try this guide ([HowTo] Troubleshoot crackling in PipeWire - Tutorials - Manjaro Linux Forum), but without succes.
Output from pw-top
My setup:
F36 with all latest updates
PipeWire + Wireplumber (default configs, i reseted it)
Some of apps in Flatpak include Steam
Sound:
USB Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
When i close game crackling stops and pw-top say that QUANT changed to 2048 for alsa_output and 3307 for Firefox