Audio popping issue

[Timidity]

While this isn't solid confirmation, I have been fairly confident that this new "feature" has been at the root of the problems. I really don't want to have to buy some software just to play the game with sound on again. :<

I definitely agree, the sound engine must have gone through change in order to support the spatial audio sound through a plugin. For me personally it has remedied the issues prior to 6.01 (on launch), however only switching to dx9 afterwards was something that completely annihilated the issues, BUT game looks awful with those graphics not gonna lie.

[GorthRedsteel]

At least it has been heard of and it will be addressed. You are very much skeptical, and I do understand, but you are very much underestimating Square... You are free to take a break if its really bothering you and come back later

Imagine defending a company that has released a damaged product that you had to buy. Maybe the audio issue isn't as bad at your end but for me it's horrendous. Even Blizzard wouldn't dare to fuck up this badly - maybe that's why PTR and BETA are worth the hassle, huh? Don't mind me though, it's forbidden to point out obvious mistakes of SE as they are the new saviours of the genre as some would like to proclaim. I'd love to be proven wrong but somehow I just know it's gonna take em forever to solve this bug.

[Nisava]

Nice to see acknowledgement finally! Makes me a bit irritated that they're telling us to try things a majority of us already have, but it checks out. Just really really hope this gets resolved asap.. trying to stay positive about it. Still think it was super irresponsible to launch their paid audio service at the same time as an entire expansion. We shouldn't have to pay a fee for working audio on top of our sub.

Here's to an eventual fix, & hopefully, our chance to enjoy Endwalker to it's fullest. Cheers.

[Kaedaemicis]

I have found turning "Ambient Sounds" to 0% fixes the problem for me. Try giving it a shot and see if it helps.

[Timidity]

Imagine defending a company that has released a damaged product that you had to buy. Maybe the audio issue isn't as bad at your end but for me it's horrendous. Even Blizzard wouldn't dare to fuck up this badly - maybe that's why PTR and BETA are worth the hassle, huh? Don't mind me though, it's forbidden to point out obvious mistakes of SE as they are the new saviours of the genre as some would like to proclaim. I'd love to be proven wrong but somehow I just know it's gonna take em forever to solve this bug.

I mean expansion launch as any other has its issues, and its apparent that you are new here, and there have been issues before on other launches as well, and most ,if not all have been addressed and resolved. I do not know what policy Blizzard these days have when it comes to resolving the issues with their own game, but I am positive it is not the same as here. Fair enough tho and I hope they fix it so you can continue in your journey pal

[Maeklos]

I have found turning "Ambient Sounds" to 0% fixes the problem for me. Try giving it a shot and see if it helps.

I tried this yesterday, but it doesn't work (for me, at least). It is 100% the positional audio. I can notice it when using Dyskrasia - the fact that each of those laser "hits" gets pinpointed all around my character causes the positional audio to crap out and break the entire sound engine after 2-3 casts at the very most.

[Kaedaemicis]

I'm sorry to hear that! It's been driving me craaazy until I tried the 0% ambient sound and mine seemed to work. Hope it gets resolved soon cause it's HIGHLY annoying.

[minopoki]

At least it has been heard of and it will be addressed. You are very much skeptical, and I do understand, but you are very much underestimating Square... You are free to take a break if its really bothering you and come back later

I don't see things to be very promising either.
All we had was just another comment that gives more importance to our system specs than to the game engine itself.
It really seems they haven't still understood the problem and aren't giving much importance to it, whether or not it's because of more urgent matters related to server overload.
The reality is we got no real perspective to an early fix, or of a response to the legacy sound option request.

I think I've done my part. I've already submitted my system specs via 2 different channels, been very active here in the forums discussing the problem in attempt of a solution, even wrote a thread in Japanese, and now I got kinda tired, not to say disappointed.

It's hard to leave a game that's been part of my life for 2 years, and that I was so excited to follow the story, not to mention the frustration of having spent so much money in a expansion that was VERY expensive in my country and not be able to play it. And, besides everything, the perspective of exploring the expansion as new together with the player community is already lost.

I can't tell if SE is neglecting us or if they really don't have the time/resources to look into this, but at this point, it doesn't matter anymore to me.
I really believe we'll be, patch after patch starting 6.05 on Jan 4th, hoping to see it was fixed just to see it was not, until someday, months from now, when we'll either finally have a miracle fix, or a note telling us they finally realized they can't do anything about this.

I'll be very happy if you're right and I'm really underestimating SquareEnix, but I'm kind of resigned.
Although, it's personally sad to me, I'll just leave this matter be, play other things, focus on other things in life, and if I hear this was fixed, I might return to the game.

[TojiSuzuhara]

I appreciate we finally get another response, albeit a tonedeaf one. We've already tried everything and the kitchen sink to fix this ourselves in terms of troubleshooting. What's even a little more disrespectful is basically the assumption that our computers can't handle it, when realistically if that were the case, this new "spatial audio" bs should have been in the Benchmark where had I at least noticed it then i would assume it was indeed a hardware issue. My only recommendation to people is to file a bug report both on here and in game because even though we got a response, i would not consider it as "it's being looked into" and they need to see mass reports of this to actually consider it something worth fixing.

[Timidity]

I don't see things to be very promising either.
All we had was just another comment that gives more importance to our system specs than to the game engine itself.
It really seems they haven't still understood the problem and aren't giving much importance to it, whether or not it's because of more urgent matters related to server overload.
The reality is we got no real perspective to an early fix, or of a response to the legacy sound option request.

I think I've done my part. I've already submitted my system specs via 2 different channels, been very active here in the forums discussing the problem in attempt of a solution, even wrote a thread in Japanese, and now I got kinda tired, not to say disappointed.

It's hard to leave a game that's been part of my life for 2 years, and that I was so excited to follow the story, not to mention the frustration of having spent so much money in a expansion that was VERY expensive in my country and not be able to play it. And, besides everything, the perspective of exploring the expansion as new together with the player community is already lost.

I can't tell if SE is neglecting us or if they really don't have the time/resources to look into this, but at this point, it doesn't matter anymore to me.
I really believe we'll be, patch after patch starting 6.05 on Jan 4th, hoping to see it was fixed just to see it was not, until someday, months from now, when we'll either finally have a miracle fix, or a note telling us they finally realized they can't do anything about this.

I'll be very happy if you're right and I'm really underestimating SquareEnix, but I'm kind of resigned.
Although, it's personally sad to me, I'll just leave this matter be, play other things, focus on other things in life, and if I hear this was fixed, I might return to the game.

As far as I'm aware as I've stated in one of the posts before, all the issues that have been a part of the game in the past have been resolved in time orderly manner, I sincerely doubt you will have to wait for so long as you've said. I understand the frustration but do not give in