Music/Sound Issue.

This is one of those strange oddity type bugs. Depending on my mood, I'll either just leave my cheapo speakers to play music and sound or if I want something to sound better, I'll wear my Sennheiser headphones. This by itself is not an issue, however, if I'm already in Final Fantasy XIV and I attempt to plug in the headphones to override the speakers, the music and sound die in FFXIV, even if I unplug the headphones again. The same is true if I have the headphones plugged in and unplug them to switch back to the speakers.

I believe I've narrowed this down to being a Windows 7 related issue and how it handles the switching of sound device, as my friend who uses Windows XP does not experience this.

It's not a big issue, just somewhat of an annoyance if my headphones are giving me a headache through prolonged usage and I have stop what I'm doing and logout of the game so I can continue to have sound and music.

I should note that only FFXIV is affected when I make the switch, all other programs that I might be using (Google Chrome with a YouTube page open for instance) continue to work as intended.

I have this same issue, I switch to headphones after a certain time of day to cut down on noise levels in the house and to not disturb sleeping peoples.

Same issue here, didn't have it before changing to win7: x64 though

I have the same issue. Though I remember it happening in other games that I've played as well. Windows 7 64-bit

You cannot output analog and digital sound simultaneously in Windows 7 or Windows Vista. You can only choose one audio source at a time. This causes a major problem for people that use headphones.

Btw if in configuration > Sound if you put all to "mute" you can still hear the surrounds sounds...owl...wolfs...etc.

Hello everyone!

Although this can be a compatibility issue, we will be glad to forward it as a bug to try and get it resolved. It may help with making it compatible so there won't be the inconvenience of logging out then back in just to get the sound working again.

Before we can forward it though, we'll need some details. IllyianSilverheart, could you please fill out the following information?
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