Arctis Sound Manager has been released in version 1.4.15.

The tool manages audio settings for SteelSeries Arctis headsets on Linux, including microphone EQ, filter chains and the screen display on the GameDAC. It arrives shortly after version 1.4.14 and brings several routing fixes.

The main change: Steam Game Recording captured no game audio so far. The router only looked at playback streams and never saw capture streams at all - the recorder ended up wherever WirePlumber’s fallback put it, rarely on the channel carrying the game. Recording streams are now pointed at the monitor of their channel (defaulting to Game), while microphones stay untouched. Also fixed: applications changed channel on their own after any EQ or profile change, because rebuilding the audio graph made the channel sinks vanish briefly and PipeWire parked the streams elsewhere - both causes are resolved. On top of that, a repaired Linux test matrix (which never reached the wheel install step since 1.4.14) and a renamed preset whose macron failed to extract on tarball installs.

Fixed

• Steam Game Recording captured no game audio (issue #225). The router only ever looked at playback streams, so it had no visibility over any capture stream at all. Steam’s recorder was left wherever WirePlumber’s fallback put it, which was rarely the channel carrying the game, hence clips with an intact video track and a silent audio one. Recording streams are now pointed at the monitor of the channel they belong to, honouring routing_overrides.json and defaulting to Game.

  Only a stream already reading a monitor is ever moved. One reading a real capture device is somebody’s microphone, and pointing it at a monitor would replace their voice with the game audio, so the microphone stays out of reach of this pass entirely.

• Applications changed channel on their own after any EQ or profile change. Rebuilding the audio graph restarts filter-chain, the channel sinks vanish for a few seconds and PipeWire parks whatever sat on them elsewhere. Two things went wrong: the streams were not put back, since only apps with a saved override were restored, and the router then mistook the accident for a deliberate move and wrote it down as a permanent one. A momentary flicker became a lasting reassignment. Both are fixed.

• The Linux test matrix never reached the install step. Every job on every distribution stopped at the runtime deps check, which refused an undeclared binary. The wheel install has therefore not actually been exercised on any distribution for several releases, including 1.4.14.

• A preset was missing for anyone installing from a release tarball. The macron in MARVEL Tōkon_ Fighting Souls [Game].json does not survive extraction when bsdtar cannot set the locale (issue #132). The preset is now named MARVEL Tokon_ Fighting Souls [Game].

Changed

• The bug report now lists playback and capture streams and where each one sits. Issue #225 could not be seen in a report at all: it showed the devices but never the streams on them.

Source: GitHub