[metheos]

As it was a very fresh system, i didn't want to bother trying to fix it, so i started over

Now it works, however, i sometimes have to go into steam settings, and change the audio device, i got 2 devices called the exacl same thing, but only one of them works.

Any idea why that is?

I had a similar problem when I first started tackling it, I think they both said analog output or something like that. But once I manually defined the alsa device, as I described earlier, the audio has worked rock solid every time I launch steam. In fact, the audio menu in steam shows blank for all the entries, so apparently it's not trying to make any decisions about audio.