Audio popping issue

Just did The Fourth Circle and trial roulette, as well as ran around the gold saucer doing Leap of Faith, ran around ishgard, and even did my leve quests.
Not a single pop and have had audio distance at 70/100 and Immersive turned off.
It feels so good to be back to normal play again.

Just coming back to report: no more audio issues, and it feels so good to not have to use the Immerse Gamepack anymore with its extremely uncomfortable spatialization! And I get my treble boost back, no less!

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引用元：ValStryder

So if you bought a car and something on it turned out to be broken (unknown to you or the dealer at time of sale), are they obligated to discount the cost for you, or fix the problem for free? I've been dealing with this sound problem myself since the expansion dropped, but I'm not crying like a child (not saying you are) over the minor inconvenience it presented, that's all it was M I N O R.

They owned it, they fixed it, that should be enough. They already compensated like 21 days or something of playtime because so many people were unable to access the game at all due to server queues, to ask for any more is absolutely ridiculous. That reimbursement happened because they were unable to provide the service that was paid for.

And as far as your "broken piano" comparison, the same thing applies, if it turns out to be broken, its fixed for free or replaced, not financially compensated. Unless of course you return it to the seller, then you're back where you started with no piano. Is that what people want to do? Return Endwalker and not have access to its content?

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Actually, something like that is covered by what is called lemon law under the car analogy. If the developers changed the minimum requirements? Posted a reasonable sunset date of 6 months or a year? That's one thing. This wasn't that. The developers made a mistake on their QA by not doing QA on a wide variety of older systems. This wasn't something they anticipated or did on purpose.

If you lost access to your bank account because your bank or credit union decided to update their ticketing system, and you weren't notified and they didn't know it would happen, how would you feel? How about if you start missing obligations like bills? Couldn't buy birthday presents or go to dinner with friends? I imagine that is close to how people feel who wanted to run content with their friends during EW. People in good standing, paying their sub, and this happens to them to the detriment of themselves and their friends.

I sincerely hope SqE will refrain from introducing major technical changes simultaneously with big content patches. Would be much better to patch in and test these systems at the end of expansions or in-between content gates.

FX-6200 and no audio stutter, lag, or FPS drops that I've been experiencing since 6.0. The game plays exactly as it did before that patch now.

I ran Fourth Circle which is always absolutely horrible and it was clear as a bell. Flow on the Orchestrion in my inn room is another where I always had issues and it was perfect. Music is an essential part of the experience of XIV for me and I am so happy that the experience is complete again.

I so happy when saw the audio issue is being fixed on patch 6.08, but my game still stuttering on every battle instance, its lessen than before but definitely sucks that i cant hear any bgm properly in game, i know my laptop is old, but it's has been working properly ever since sb, until endwalker is released and even after patch its not fully fixed, i hope it's resolved on 6.1 :(

So far so good! I didn't hear any stuttering or any other audio issues yesterday. The Radz-at-Han BGM was a stuttering mess, even more so if the game window was not active. Now the music is perfect even when the game window isn't active. Thank you!

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引用元：megamino

I still get it HOWEVER it's gone much better now since it's not stuttering while in the big city like OS, but it happened when pulling mobs in the dungeon... I'm still have DX9 as an option so i might stick to that for now..

For now, i might want to give a try and report back with my bug report... I don't know what to say though since it's only "Intel Integrated Graphics" so yeah might be "yeah sir, your laptop is too potato", but again "This is not happening before EW release"

Yeah kinda back and forth and then probably just hoping they will not disabling DX9 for a long term now *fingercrossed

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you might want to confirm the tjmax of your cpu and actual temps during game play, the cpu usage is back to if not better than 5.5 levels.

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引用元：miragedive

Right. After endless fiddling and fidgeting with the settings, I think I may have found a temporarily fix/reduction. I tested this right in the middle of when the sound was stuttering literally every 5 seconds and had three clean minutes of sound on trial 2 + no stuttering in The Goblet or Radz-at-Han after. All of these fixes are necessary, I tried switching from FullScreen back to Borderless and the stuttering came back. This is assuming you've applied the fixes suggested in patch notes.

1. Switch to Fullscreen Display
2. Ensure that FPS is capped 1/1 or uncapped
3. Go to System Configuration -> Sound Settings -> Wireless Controller Settings, and set Speaker sounds to None. I reduced volume to 0 and muted for good measure.
4. If you use a gamepad/controller to play, either play wirelessly, or if you connect via cable, disable the controller as a sound device in your Windows settings. To do this, connect your controller, go to Sound Settings -> Device Properties -> Additional device properties -> On the General window, right at the bottom, change Device Usage to "Don't use this device (disable)"

This combination seems to work for me so far, but I'll feed back over the course of the coming few days if the issue comes back or if the issue remains fixed like this. At the moment I have my graphics reduced to mitigate, but if the fix holds I'll gradually increase. Note that this worked with a listening position of 50.

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There is a Windows 10 specific issue affecting FFXIV that is not caused by patches, nor display drivers, go through the list of running programs and close them down till the issue stops.
It's connected to something stealing focus.

I'd like to confirm the audio stuttering is now gone, and hopefully on other's ends as well. Played for atleast 20+ hours and watching cutscenes and doing newer raids and no audio issues.

Even as the oddball with the 12+ year-old Intel CPU, it's completely gone for me too, so that's certainly great and takes that headache out of things.

However,

I am still extremely disappointed that the game is still on the new, bad sound engine. It's just somehow wrong compared to pre-Endwalker audio, in particular the various volume levels for battle voices and some effects. This is the last time I'll complain about it here because it's clear that it's here to stay, permanently, because it's very likely required for the worthless spatial audio that they were surely forced into implementing at the last minute for a minor payday. I just had to voice my displeasure one last time in case of the smallest chance the sentiment gets back to someone that matters.

At least I can get mostly used to it, unlike the stuttering, so at least it's not the end of the world. And it's good the music isn't seriously affected by it, might even be the tiniest bit improved, which is one of the most important things.

No more stutter/crackle for me either. Was finally able to uninstall Immerse...was blown away for a while at how crisp & clear everything sounds without it. The spatial sound definitely isn't my thing. Very glad the team was able to address the issues.