Audio Drops on ROG Ally X When Docked
I recently (within the past week) started to have periodic, but persistent, audio drops of around a second when playing games on the Steam/Bazzite partition of my ROG Ally X. I can play Steam games on the Windows partition of that device without issue. I have changed docking stations, hdmi cables, moved HDMI ports, ensured that all software is current - even tried moving to the Steam Beta Channel build, but the issue persists. This only seems to happen when in an HDMI/docked mode - it does not appear when playing the Ally X out of the dock (but I have a strong preference to playing on a TV. Any ideas? While the issue is very random, it is certainly annoying. This was working without issue up until this week.
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I'm noticing the same thing. Audio drops for a few seconds randomly. My TV shows the "input changed" overlay like it thinks something changed with the video input, but only audio get's dropped. Happens randomly while in game or gamescope. One way to reproduce it quite often is by opening the Steam menu or QAM while in game.
I think it might be something related to HDR because it might think that the content is not HDR and changes singal type? Or might be related to the audio output (5.1 soundbar via ARC). I'm not sure but it is very distracting as both audio and overlay show up very often.