Audio popping issue

[ChilledApple]

So i just created a profile for the forums so that i can bump this one up. Already filed a bug report today and responded to the twitter message of Embody. I tried now everything that there is. I am suffering from this issue since day one, i had plenty of time to troubleshoot and try different things, nothing worked so far. Although i downloaded the audio pack today and created a profile. At first ... no diffrence. I then started to play a little bit with my settings. I changed the audio quality to 16 bit 44100 Hz, capped my fps to 60 and set listening position to 0. That "fixed" the stuttering for the most part. Previous to those changes i got constant stuttering in certain dungeons and dutys. The last turn of the new Raid was espacially bad.

But the real problem here is: why the hell do i have to get that audio pack, for wich i have to pay, just to be able to play the game? And altough it "fixes" most of my stuttering problems now, the audio pack itself is utter garbage. The quality is so bad, just as everyone stated, it sounds all muffled and off.

I just hope that Square realises sooner than later, how many people are actually affected.

*edit* Ah and i still can recreate the issue in the rising stone instance. I have no idea why its so bad in there but just standing still in the instance makes the audio stutter. If you spam a few AoEs it goes totally crazy.

[Maeklos]

I just hope that Square realises sooner than later, how many people are actually affected.

Yeah. I still don't understand why they pulled down the entire working sound engine from Shadowbringers to do this. If this were, say, a new graphics layer for updated shadows or lightsourcing or something, you can guarantee that it would be an additional option, not a complete rework of the entire graphics engine for one new feature. Especially if that feature is something sold by a third party developer. I've never worked in software design, but I have worked for almost two decades in business and sales, and the one thing you absolutely, positively never want to do is to tie the success of your product onto a third-party product. Because if that third-party product fails or compromises your product, all of your hard work is for nothing. Your work is screwed over, all because someone outside of your company screwed up or didn't put in enough due diligence.