Audio popping issue

[Nyarlat]

I've found all the new classes with super aoe seem to trigger sound stuttering. You would be hard pressed to find a tank that only does 3 at a time. 100% of the ones I have encountered even with 2 dragoons with limited aoe, run about gathering half the dungeon only to then have the sound cut out horribly. And then have the fight take 4x longer than it should.

Too many WoW refugee's, they are adopting their old methods in a new game; And it is breaking it.

Don't even try to tell them to slow down either, the tank will proclaim he is the only dps needed. And you will forfeit your commendations. Just stay silent, and deal with the fallout.

You can be in the Rising Stones and reproduce the audio stuttering after 3 combos. Unless you wanna blame that on "WoW refugees" too? What even is this logic, we're dealing with tech issues here not some weird cultural issue.

[ShadowedStranger]

Found content that is not affected by audio issues.
ARR extreme primal fights.
Whorleater, striking tree are issue free zone.
Moogles are, however, problematic.

Apparently they did not bother implementing spatial audio for most of ARR extreme content.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Coming back just to say that I had almost no stuttering while in Holminster Switch while something like the Sunken Temple of Qarn is nigh unbearable.

[ShadowedStranger]

Meanwhile, squeezix support amuses themself by asking for specifics about my system after I've provided them with msinfo and dxdiag.
Apparently they are asking for msinfo and dxdiag because it's a tradition to do so, actually using them is heresy.

[ClaraKitty]

I too have been having this issue ever since EW's release and it's rather frustrating to say the least. The game is....playable, but there's only so much of the choppiness I can take in a sitting. It seems to happen only during battle or if I'm interacting with something like my retainers or gathering or crafting.

I set the Listening Position to 100 on the Character and that seems to....help a little. Doesn't solve it, but it seems to do it a little less.

I've fussed with graphics, shut things down, and nothing else has worked. Everything is up to date too.

CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor - (4 CPUs), ~3.8GHz

I've found all the new classes with super aoe seem to trigger sound stuttering. You would be hard pressed to find a tank that only does 3 at a time. 100% of the ones I have encountered even with 2 dragoons with limited aoe, run about gathering half the dungeon only to then have the sound cut out horribly. And then have the fight take 4x longer than it should.

Too many WoW refugee's, they are adopting their old methods in a new game; And it is breaking it.

Don't even try to tell them to slow down either, the tank will proclaim he is the only dps needed. And you will forfeit your commendations. Just stay silent, and deal with the fallout.

What even is this logic? How is something on Square's side of things new players faults? This is extremely rude and also wrong. I've had stuttering on new and old classes alike. Been leveling my Dancer and White Mage and it has been just as choppy as Sage. Class makes no difference nor is it the fault of WoW players.

[Breezelyn]

I did some testing with the equalizer bars and crafting while facing away from the camera, which fairly reliably produces the audio stuttering. I've posted my results in my bug thread here.

I've also been reading through the bug reports posted on these forums. Someone said a few pages ago they knew someone with a Phenom CPU had no stuttering issues, and speculated that Phenom CPUs wouldn't cause this problem - however, this bug report indicates a user with a Phenom CPU is having the stuttering bug. So now we're up to FX, Ryzen, Phenom, and i7 CPUs having this problem, as well as (anecdotally) consoles - however this last only comes from something a forum poster reported reading in shout chat. If we could get someone on the forum with a PS4 or PS5 to confirm they have the stuttering bug, this would be a great help.

It's entirely possible that one source of the problem is something that happens with the CPU, but if it's happening with every type of CPU, then just getting a new CPU isn't going to fix the problem.

I haven't found videos on PS4/PS5 stutter, however, I did find some evidence of some twitter users (who play on console) with it. This was back on December 5th, so unsure if it has been fixed or not for them. Possibly not, because of pc users having issues yet.
https://twitter.com/RaijinOkami/stat...91769109651464

[Jadilus]

Adding to those digging into the CPU troubleshooting, I'm running an AMD FX 9370 (8 core @ 4.4ghz each). I also, like everyone else here, had no issues until 6.0. Installing the spatial audio did help in my case-until 6.01, which made things worse. Another user graciously mentioned that immerse (the spatial audio software) did release an updated version. Installing this again did help in my case, but of course, the audio still becomes broken for (insert the hundreds of causes) after a while.

The only system adjustment that made a difference (I tried pretty much all of them listed in various places in this thread) was adjusting power settings. I never realized I was in 'balanced' mode, likely because it's never been an issue until now. So to anyone else that may have a similar setup to mine, enabling the spatial audio and creating a new power profile setting helps with the stuttering not occurring as frequently.

[Lagunow]

Adding to those digging into the CPU troubleshooting, I'm running an AMD FX 9370 (8 core @ 4.4ghz each). I also, like everyone else here, had no issues until 6.0. Installing the spatial audio did help in my case-until 6.01, which made things worse. Another user graciously mentioned that immerse (the spatial audio software) did release an updated version. Installing this again did help in my case, but of course, the audio still becomes broken for (insert the hundreds of causes) after a while.

The only system adjustment that made a difference (I tried pretty much all of them listed in various places in this thread) was adjusting power settings. I never realized I was in 'balanced' mode, likely because it's never been an issue until now. So to anyone else that may have a similar setup to mine, enabling the spatial audio and creating a new power profile setting helps with the stuttering not occurring as frequently.

I'm currently using a combination of adjusting power settings, setting task priority to high on task manager and using DX9. It's annoying to have to do this setup everytime I log into the game, but has made it somewhat playable for me so far.

It's no miracle solution obviously, audio still gets choppy on combat sometimes, so I'm definitely not doing any endgame content until the devs sort it out, but at least I can now watch cutscenes without the crackling and static ruining the mood and experience, so I'm finally going to finish msq this holiday.

Then I'm going to wait for an official fix, because honestly, I'm exhausted of looking for solutions. My trust on SE was broken and I'm never preordering anything from them again until I'm 100% sure they're not going to announce any gimmicky feature.

[AsheStrachan]

The start of EW Early access,I haven't been able to play the game I am paying for..This sucks,but I'm pretty sure they are going to be adding more free time cause of the MANY problems

[Timidity]

Adding to those digging into the CPU troubleshooting, I'm running an AMD FX 9370 (8 core @ 4.4ghz each). I also, like everyone else here, had no issues until 6.0. Installing the spatial audio did help in my case-until 6.01, which made things worse. Another user graciously mentioned that immerse (the spatial audio software) did release an updated version. Installing this again did help in my case, but of course, the audio still becomes broken for (insert the hundreds of causes) after a while.

The only system adjustment that made a difference (I tried pretty much all of them listed in various places in this thread) was adjusting power settings. I never realized I was in 'balanced' mode, likely because it's never been an issue until now. So to anyone else that may have a similar setup to mine, enabling the spatial audio and creating a new power profile setting helps with the stuttering not occurring as frequently.

Hey there, I've got the same setup, and exactly same issue occurrence. Only thing that did completely annihilate the stutter for me was playing or rather is playing in DX9. Graphics are underwhelming but you might wana give it a shot!

Also to add additional things I've tried : In the end I opted for a complete OS reboot, factory settings, I've completely reinstalled windows, the drivers, etc. Did not help at all, just in case somebody wants to try that, so you know that most likely it will not work.