Ingame Sound/Music extrem stuttering in battles

[Spideyrulz1975]

The only notable bandaid fix for now for me personally is just simply turning off player effects down to zero. Boss fights and big FATEs might have some music stuttering but nothing nearly as terrible and it seems to go back to normal afterwards.

Turning down the player sounds made life so much better... in the meantime.

[Elliah-Seraheart]

Hi. Just wanted to redirect people to the main thread for this. Feel free to chime in, apply remedies found thus far - and share remedies you found yourself thus far.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-popping-issue

[Raposo]

Same here. Everything was fine until 6.0 dropped. I also tried the spatial sound software and it didn't worked. I finished the MSQ yesterday. Loved it, but the sound stuttering toned the experience down a bit for me. In 8-man battles, I'd have to move the camera to not show the bosses (and also show less PCs) just to make it stutter a little less and it also ruined the MSQ trials for me.

Found several people reporting this on reddit. The game now consumes a great more deal of processing and I don't think it would be related to new areas/instances/trials being "more fancy" in graphics, because it happens in old areas and instances too (like alliance raids, which wasn't a problem before).

I know that buying a more powerful processor would solve the issue, but please don't reply something as insensitive as "Just buy a new PC". PC hardware is highly pricy in the country I'm from, due to economic crisis and "dolar ratios" and I'm sure this is the case for several people that struggle just to pay this game subscription. I get the argument that long-time MMOs may upgrade in graphics and so must the console/PC that runs them, but there was no improvements in overall graphics in this case. We are playing with the same graphics we did up to 5.5 and then 6.0 dropped with the same graphics, but they changed something that is directly affecting us.

We too love the game and some of us have been playing it for several years (I'm here since 2.0 open betas). I'm hoping this is something that can be fixed and urge the devs to take a look at it. Please don't leave us out.

[lemonsquizle]

Just commenting on here to help this thread get attention! I get the same awful stutters in my audio during combat. It pretty much makes combat unplayable with sound on. It feels odd because it seems like the game should be frame-lagging from how it sounds in the audio but my fps stays pretty consistent during the stutters. Ive tried changing the audio frequency in windows, DX9, camera distance settings. Nothing has worked yet. It's been happening since Endwalker came out for me. Hope the developers can fix it because I really love this game!

[Nisava]

Same issue here, 6.01 fixed absolutely nothing for me. Got an email back for my support ticket and they copy + pasted everything I literally said I'd already tried. I just want to play the game I paid for, and enjoy the work the team put into their vision. Straight up disrespectful to do them and us like this.

[Tessmarin]

6.01 provided no resolution on sound issues here either.

[minopoki]

So, in the Japanese Forums, they suggested we tried the LatencyMon software to detect latency issues for audio.
My result turned out bad, as seen in the image below.

How is everyone else's result?
To check, open LatencyMon, click the green start button, wait at least 5-10 minutes, and if it gets Green, it means it's good, black means not so good, red means bad.

If you get a green result, try then running the scan while playing FFXIV to see if results change.

[Grimno]

So, in the Japanese Forums, they suggested we tried the LatencyMon software to detect latency issues for audio.
My result turned out bad, as seen in the image below.

How is everyone else's result?
To check, open LatencyMon, click the green start button, wait at least 5-10 minutes, and if it gets Green, it means it's good, black means not so good, red means bad.

If you get a green result, try then running the scan while playing FFXIV to see if results change.

My only issue with that is that... for the vast majority, if not all of us, this problem is only in FFXIV.
No other game I play has this issue.
Not Dragon Quest Builders 2, Halo Infinite, Earth Defense Force 5
Heck, even Foxhole, a game that is so unoptimized that it turns high-end PCs into ovens, and will force medium PCs to emergency shut-down due to processor overheatings, has no issues with audio. And that's a war game that can have literally 100 vs 100 on one screen.

[minopoki]

My only issue with that is that... for the vast majority, if not all of us, this problem is only in FFXIV.
No other game I play has this issue.
Not Dragon Quest Builders 2, Halo Infinite, Earth Defense Force 5
Heck, even Foxhole, a game that is so unoptimized that it turns high-end PCs into ovens, and will force medium PCs to emergency shut-down due to processor overheatings, has no issues with audio. And that's a war game that can have literally 100 vs 100 on one screen.

I completely agree, for me too this problem is only in FFXIV, and only after 6.0 came out (was perfect before that).
But considering SE not taking the adequate measures to fix this, I think it might be interesting for us to try to detect what our computers have in common that might be causing this, and, if possible, even ways to avoid that while SE don't fix this as they should.

[Razzleberries]

6.01 made it worse haha

6.0 I only got the stuttering very rarely but 6.01 has made the stuttering almost constant. I'm glad I finished msq beforehand because now I have to play with my game completely muted...
Hope a fix is on the way soon.