How to fix crackling or popping audio on Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX- on Steam Deck and Linux

Despite the Kingdom Hearts Steam collection being Steam Deck verified, many may experience crackling audio/ popping sounds on the Steam Deck and Linux pcs in general. This sucks because it should work great being verified, and the game has a beautiful soundtrack to enjoy. I’m posting this fix that worked for me in the hope to help other gamers who google the issue in the future. This has been posted elsewhere on the Steam forums, and I’m not sure who to give credit to/who initially discovered this fix. I had to tweak it a bit to work for me. To fix the crackling you must first download heroic games launcher in desktop mode (can be done from Discover on Steam Deck or just google it) and add any .exe file (it doesn't matter which) From here you want to click settings then change the prefix to the one KH uses. Normally for 1.5+2.5 it will be "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compat data/25524230/pfx" or alternatively “/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compat data/2552430/pfx” if the first one doesn’t work. From here if you scroll down and click on "Winetricks" then "Winetricks GUI" A white box will pop up, click on "Select the default WinePrefix" Then "Install a windows DLL or component " Scroll down until you find "Xaudio29" then click confirm and it will install. Once it has installed you can safely close winetricks and see if it has fixed the issue on your steam deck or Linux system :) Good luck! I hope this helps people to better enjoy a wonderful game on Steam Deck and Linux. It shouldn’t be necessary, but shows no signs of being patched ever so it is what it is for now.