Audio popping issue

[Vendi]

I have pretty much the same problem everyone else adressed here already. Furthermore, I tried pretty much everything: from changing drivers, changing soundcards, changing soundoptions and even disabling some options in the BIOS, which could have some impact on the audio. Combined with my experience that I never had an issue like this... ever (in one specific game), it is safe to assume this is not fixable on my side.
The devs have to look into this asap, because the music is too important for this game not to experience.

Note: DX9 does help me getting rid of the audio issue (for the most part) but the game runs worse, looks worse... so there is that.

[Maeklos]

Still fucked... unlucky.
I guess we have to stop being poor, and JUST buy better PCs.

Good luck. With the semiconductor shortage, parts for computers are 3x to 6x what they were in cost a year or two ago. What's being sold as "gaming PCs" on Amazon for ~$1k are the same models that were different bargain series ~$600 when I was shopping for a friend in 2019. The one I wound up buying for her was $1003 in 2019. Now, a comparable model is $2719. Even the GeForce 1070 Ti that I bought for $289 on Amazon doesn't sell for less than $700 these days.

With luck, Squeenix will simply add in an option to enable pre-Endwalker Legacy sound.

[Lagunow]

Still fucked... unlucky.
I guess we have to stop being poor, and JUST buy better PCs.

I just ran the endwalker benchmark today out of curiosity and my PC got a 6k score, which places it on the higher end of stardand, so I should have no problems at all. There is simply no justification for me to replace hardware that's completely fine for the sake of a single game.

[Grimno]

I just ran the endwalker benchmark today out of curiosity and my PC got a 6k score, which places it on the higher end of stardand, so I should have no problems at all. There is simply no justification for me to replace hardware that's completely fine for the sake of a single game.

I decided to give this a try as well.
Set it up to what I use "High (Laptop)" and my score was at 9.1k

[TorusTor]

Does anyone know if the JP playerbase has the audio stutter issue? We can beg and seethe in our English forum echo chamber all we want - if the JP playerbase hasn't reported the problem, it will remain unknown to the devs.

[Maeklos]

Does anyone know if the JP playerbase has the audio stutter issue? We can beg and seethe in our English forum echo chamber all we want - if the JP playerbase hasn't reported the problem, it will remain unknown to the devs.

They have. One of the posts about this links to over 50 forum posts on the English, German, and Japanese forums about this issue, as well as Reddit posts.

[minopoki]

Does anyone know if the JP playerbase has the audio stutter issue? We can beg and seethe in our English forum echo chamber all we want - if the JP playerbase hasn't reported the problem, it will remain unknown to the devs.

I have linked in the first post of the following thread some posts from the Japanese forums reporting this issue:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/451573

Japanese players seem to be complaining much less than we are though.

But I think that considering how big the English speaking community is in this game, I assume SE have some concern for our issues, and that ours demands will reach them eventually, although the language barrier is probably indeed an problem in this case.

[Lagunow]

I have linked in the first post of the following thread some posts from the Japanese forums reporting this issue:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/451573

Japanese players seem to be complaining much less than we are though.

But I think that considering how big the English speaking community is in this game, I assume SE have some concern for our issues, and that ours demands will reach them eventually, although the language barrier is probably indeed an problem in this case.

There's a single thread and 70% of the replies are by the same person. I do not understand japanese, but it seems the JP community is largely unaffected, which is worrying given SE's track record of poor communication with the western playerbase.

[minopoki]

There's a single thread and 70% of the replies are by the same person. I do not understand japanese, but it seems the JP community is largely unaffected, which is worrying given SE's track record of poor communication with the western playerbase.

There isn't only one.
From my limited Japanese knowledge, I could find at about 6 threads that seemed to me were reporting specifically the audio stuttering issue, and I linked all of them in the other thread.

This one is the only one I have found from after 6.01.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...85%A5%E3%82%8B

Title translates to: "Even after Patch 6.01, sound noise is happening"
The first part translates to:
"Since Endwalker early access, it has been happening, and it was said that was gonna be fixed in 6.01, but…
With no change, noise or crackling/clipping are happening."

パッチ6.01以降もサウンドにノイズが入る
暁月アーリーから発生していて、6.01で修正されたという話でしたが
変わらずノイズ・音割れが発生しています。

[Maeklos]

One other thing to consider, too, is that a far, far larger percentage of the Japanese player base play on consoles. PC gaming isn't as prevalent in Japan as it is in the Americas and EU.