Quote Originally Posted by Maeklos View Post
Basically, thousands of players have been experiencing horribly distorted audio because of the sound engine changes that came with Endwalker based around the new third party spatial audio plugin. 6.0 introduced a lot of problems that, for a part of that group, were manageable. 6.01 broke it completely and created a situation where the in-game audio is absolute and complete sound garbage.

Here's an example (with very minor Endwalker location spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLQW6ShIkJY

This is from -before- the 6.01 complete broke sound. Imagine this distorted sound, but now 10 times worse and completely unavoidable.

Post linking 50+ other posts on English, German, Japanese forums about the issues, as well as Reddit: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...uttering-issue
oh my god that is awful. im so sorry. I assume there have been attempts at windows/driver adjustments and troubleshooting??