If you're having issues with audio in CS 2 add this argument - Lemmy.world
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
Yeah, seems like it is preferring the ALSA backend. Sound initially worked for me because I had pipewire-alsa installed, but I couldn’t do anything to change the volume.