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I experience annoying problem with audio, any help is appreciated!

Problem: Sound delays 2-3 seconds on playback start. It present only on first start after idle, works fine if I switch between sources while one of them is playing or just stopped.

Manjaro linux, kernel 5.10. Intel audio card. Auto mute disabled. Added intel_iommu=igfx_off to grub params. Tried to apply solutions https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting , but nothing helped(or I just missed something)

Hint: worked fine on previous hardware. Switched from dell xps 9570 to 9500(i5-8300H -> i5-10300H)

Pulseaudio configs:

daemonize = no fail = yes high-priority = yes nice-level = -11 realtime-scheduling = yes realtime-priority = 5 allow-module-loading = yes allow-exit = yes use-pid-file = yes system-instance = no local-server-type = user cpu-limit = no enable-shm = yes flat-volumes = no rescue-streams = yes lock-memory = no exit-idle-time = 20 scache-idle-time = 20 dl-search-path = /usr/lib/pulse-14.2/modules default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa load-default-script-file = yes log-target = log-level = notice resample-method = auto avoid-resampling = no enable-remixing = yes remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes remixing-produce-lfe = no remixing-consume-lfe = no lfe-crossover-freq = 0 default-sample-format = s16le default-sample-rate = 44100 alternate-sample-rate = 48000 default-sample-channels = 2 default-channel-map = front-left,front-right default-fragments = 4 default-fragment-size-msec = 25 enable-deferred-volume = yes deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000 deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0 shm-size-bytes = 0 log-meta = no log-time = no log-backtrace = 0 rlimit-fsize = -1 rlimit-data = -1 rlimit-stack = -1 rlimit-core = -1 rlimit-rss = -1 rlimit-as = -1 rlimit-nproc = -1 rlimit-nofile = 256 rlimit-memlock = -1 rlimit-locks = -1 rlimit-sigpending = -1 rlimit-msgqueue = -1 rlimit-nice = 31 rlimit-rtprio = 9 rlimit-rttime = 200000
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  • Check if this works: log off, Ctrl + Alt + F2 -> Log in, mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse.bak, reboot. Commented May 4, 2021 at 14:15
  • yes, this ^ worked. Thank you @ArtemS.Tashkinov , if you add it as an answer, I will mark it a solution. Commented May 5, 2021 at 16:13
  • Possibly related: How to fix first play of sound delayed, missed or muffled Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 19:54

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Please check if this works:

  1. Log off
  2. Ctrl + Alt + F2 -> Log in
  3. mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse.bak
  4. reboot
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If anyone else finds this in the future and it doesn't solve their issue (like me), my chimp-brain workaround was to make an audio file of silence and set it to loop as my first cue. This seems to keep things alive so other cues fire instantly.

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  • An answer claims this may not be sufficient. Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 19:55

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