Ingame Sound/Music extrem stuttering in battles

[KathrynMjrn]

The second most frustrating thing is (the first being that this issue hasn't been fixed yet) that the "solutions" seem to be totally inconsistent. For instance, I installed the immersive sound and it seemed to have improved things... until it didn't earlier today when I found it better to have it off. Then later, I was in town and it was stuttering as badly as it had ever done, but fixed it (for a bit) by turning off and on again Sound Effects. So in summary, the "solution" appears to be to mess with your sound settings almost randomly until it sounds better in that moment, and then do it again when it becomes bad again.

[akaiLV]

None of the suggested solutions or any fiddling with my sound settings has seemed to fix the problem and I am at a lost at what to do other than 'get a new computer and hope it doesn't occur on it.'

And it seems like the audio issues also vary a bit from person to person. Some are just combat music, but for me it's the BGM and ambient music as well as the voices in cutscenes _sometimes_. It's getting ridiculous and makes me not want to do MSQ at all because every cutscene has the characters sounding drunk and being cut off as the sound stutters with the music.

Has SE said anything about helping out to figure this out?

[Maeklos]

Has SE said anything about helping out to figure this out?

Soken Tweeted about it a couple of days ago. Realistically, though, we probably can't expect much until the 4th, when most of the teams are going to back from the holidays. We're kind of suffering under the setback of the Christmas/New Years holiday week. This, combined with the fact that the team thought that 6.01 would fix the issues instead of make them worse and break them for people who were fine in 6.0, have conspired to make this a very time indeed.

[Fyxation]

So, after having a colossal truck ton of dx11 errors yesterday, I decided to try bumping down to dx9 just to get into the game without the immediately crashing.

On the plus side, the sound distortion and engine utterly breaking is alleviated.

On the negative side, it's still there. It's very much still there. And the game runs like crap and looks like it, too. I went back to 11 on my next session because I'd rather deal with broken sound (copium's running low tho) than broken sound and broken fps.

[Telvanni_Guard]

Throwing my two cents in. Also have the stuttering and slowdown while in combat and have had it since the beginning. I've noticed when I zoom the camera in, to where it's in my character's face, the issues go away. Makes me want to say it's an issue with CPUs like others have said in this thread but it seems inconsistent on when it starts and stops. That and no matter of tweaking with my, admittedly already low, graphics settings (Laptop Standard while using a Desktop PC) seems to fix it.

[ShouHan]

So I've been having the issue of my sound completely cutting out for like every 10 minutes or so sometime every 5 minutes and there will be massive lag spikes epically in raids and dungeons i'm not sure what can be causing this but I honestly hope something is done about this because it can't be my end because this is the only game I play where this kind of anomaly happens and it only started after EW dropped.

[ClarkCiccero]

Im driving crazy about this sound system of ffXIV, before endwalker was fine, now is cutting everything, I NEED TO TURN OFF the sound so I can play, with my eyes. This is so frustrating. The only game who does that. I did everything on my end. But its not me, is the game.

[CaribouKai]

Sound issues started with Endwalker and have been getting continuously worse. Used to only happen with large battles, but now it's happening with me beating on one creature with no one else in sight. Stuttering also in cutscenes to the point it tends to cut the last couple words completely off. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling the game, no luck or change. Really dims my desire to continue to play.

[AriannaStormwake]

i have this issue too
i saw a reddit post that mentioned listening position and increasing it from 0 to 100
after i tested on a fate with multiple mobs there was no stuttering noise
but on the final day trial it continued stuttering so its not that

[Shalyra]

I did that too but it starts yet again when theres something between you and the camera (NPCs or Players) which is really annoying.