Audio popping issue

It's gotten a lot better this patch for me. I have not made any changes to my setup or any settings between 6.0 and 6.0.1, except disabling spatial audio.

Cutscene's have barely any crackling anymore - and for the first time ever, Inns and Baracks do not constantly pop anymore - just minor, occasional popping when menuing. Funnily enough, enabling spatial audio made it better pre 6.0.1 - now it's better without spatial audio enabled. I may actually start MSQing now.

Win10 10.0.19042
AMD FX 8320
GTX 1070 Ti (30.0.14.9709)
32 GB RAM DDR3
ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
Stereo Headphones at 44k 24 bit
Realtek HDA 6.0.9132.1
Listening Position: 100
Equalizer: Standard
Player Effects Volume: 100
Wireless Controller Setting: 0 + muted.
Immersive Spatial Audio: disabled (installed)

Can confirm nothing changed with patch. The only thing that makes the sound better in any way is changing the listening position to 100. As a side note I've been having the exact same problem with FFVII Remake. Only happens with these 2 games. My CPU is a amd FX-8320e.

I wanted to report that the patch did not solve anything on my end, in fact it seemed to make things worse, I did reduce my bit rate like it said in the patch notes but that didn't help at all. Had to shift my listening position back to 100 but its still causing problems.

AMD Radeon R9 200/ HD 7900 Series
AMD FX - 8120 Eight - Core Processor
8 Gigs Ram

Motherboard
ASUTek Sabertooth 990FX

I bought this computer in 2012 when Mists of Pandaria came out. It has been very reliable for a long time and is only now starting to show its age. It played Metal Gear Solid V at Max settings without issues. When I bought Resident Evil 2 it definitely started to show its age but played it alright at Medium settings. I think ARR came out at about the same time I bought my computer so I don't see why it would have problems now all of a sudden.

I was thinking it got worse as well but I wasn't certain. If it did get it worse it's minimally so.

Yeah I had issues since the start, I managed to lower the sound stutter by installing the new spatial audio software, which only narrowed the stuttering to occur in housing areas/house. After the 6.01 came in today it just went bonkers all over again in fights, cutscenes, zones themselves etc. So..

Majority of the issues seem to be connected with AMD FX series CPUs, the motherboards that support the older ones. Narrows down to CPU Throttling - since the game itself is not optimized forcing the CPU to overheat and thus you guessed it cause the stutter.

Was really hoping they would fix this, I can't believe it still persists after so many people have this issue. Idk kind of not in position to invest in new hardware atm, and savage is closing in t.t

I started having audio issues with the latest patch today after experiencing zero issues sinze launch, all I hear is a crackling noise (no ingame sound) on the startup screen right after the Square Enix logo, and then my game crashes to desktop without an error before I get to click on anything. It goes away by switching to directx9 in the launcher config, but when I actually log in on my character it has extremely low fps, stutters and crashes during intense player congregations like being in cities or hunt trains, rendering th egame nigh unplayable anyway.

Hey we're Processor Buddies xD

The patch notes had a note that said the issue has been addressed. I am still having as many audio problems as before and following the advice to reduce my device's sample rate has had no effect. I came back just to play Shadowbringers and Endwlakers after a 4 year hiatus (we had a kid) and this is extremely disappointing. In the six years I played this game prior to having our daughter, I never had any issues with sound. W. T. F.

Hey, I just got back from work and I managed to test some stuff even with the awful que haha. So launching the game back to dx9 solved everything for me. If anyone wants to give it a shot, graphics looked like sh*t on dx9 settings cause it was adjusting it to laptop settings for some reason so change it to desktop ones. If you can bare playing it like that, mild difference especially with gshade. I'm curious if it might work for others :o

At first it had improved for me, but now it’s back to how it was before if not worse. CPU is Intel i7 9750H and it stutters very badly in and out of cutscenes. Butchering my graphics settings used to help but not anymore.