Audio popping issue

[XenophineEX]

Well standart the game is playing in direct x 11 u can turn it of in the launcher then u can play it in 9

this is what I am running the game in <https://imgur.com/razYASj>
just copy between the brackets and view

As you can see it is all in dx 12 for me, all updated.

Visuals have never been a problem even on max settings... only the audio is.

Anyways that is enough from me for today, I'm sure I am interrupting someone's temper tantrum about refunds and demands of excellence as they see fit. So that will be all from me today, till then, tend to thine babes and teach them a better course of discourse.

[yami131]

this is what I am running the game in <https://imgur.com/razYASj>
just copy between the brackets and view

As you can see it is all in dx 12 for me, all updated.

Yeah i got direct x12 as well but the game in the launcher starts on 11 or u turn it of and play it in 9 if u click in configurations in the ff14 launcher u can turn off directx 11 support and then the game will run on DirectX 9

[XenophineEX]

ty for embeding what I posted =)

[XenophineEX]

no... it will run on whatever dx version you have installed unless directed otherwise

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I have tested fates with a full party so far since its the most problematic area for me with this sound bug. I am getting it about at the same rate as I was on launch week, so that is a huge improvement, considering I can actually play with game sound on now, whereas yesterday, I had to shut it all off just to play.

I have done one Trust dungeon with no problems also.

Still need to test all the areas I submitted in my bug report but what is important is that it is still not fixed.

Edit: Just teled into Old Sharlayan and immediately started getting the sound issues.

[XenophineEX]

I have tested fates with a full party so far since its the most problematic area for me with this sound bug. I am getting it about at the same rate as I was on launch week, so that is a huge improvement, considering I can actually play with game sound on now, whereas yesterday, I had to shut it all off just to play.

I have done one Trust dungeon with no problems also.

Still need to test all the areas I submitted in my bug report but what is important is that it is still not fixed.

Just curious, but do you also happen to have a AMD processor?

[AsheStrachan]

Well,I've filled out ANOTHER bug report,and talked to customer service,and still nothing

[edit] and the audio is STILL @#@#!ing stuttering,how is the acceptable

[Tessmarin]

Can't say for others, but I'm not asking that they fix it by tomorrow.

We're simply asking that they acknowledge it. The "audio problems" they claimed to have fixed on 6.01 is a completely separated issue with a completely different cause.

The only replies we got here on this thread implied we were trying to run the game on a toaster, except AMD-FX8350 is above not only minimum but even recommended system requirements. They called it "old hardware" but AMD-FX is younger than FFXIV.

They announced system requirements. They made a benchmark avaiable. People have every right to be mad when a company sells them a software telling them it would run on their machine, only for the software to not run on their machine. This is blatant false advertising.

And yes, I do know they have content to relase and all that, but I also know any company should understand that anything that could possibly warrant them a lawsuit takes precedence.

Except this post here of it happening on a PS5.....so...I don't think this is a Windows or PC Hardware issue on our end. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...o-problems-fix

[Larirawiel]

People tried using external sound cards and it didn't fix the issue for them.
I'm not tech savvy so can you explain to me why i had no issues with sound during shadowbringers? If bulldozer is so uniquely bad with floating core whatevers but it worked fine in shadowbringers it means they changed something about the way the game uses those floating core points right? Why are other games i play have no sound issues? And most bizarrely, why is camera facing the front side of my character completely fixes the sound stuttering? What is the game trying to calculate with those floating core points but only when the camera is facing the back of my character?

I dunno, to me personally it seems like they broke something in the audio engine they use with endwalker patch. It's broken for everyone, but it's only noticeable for people with certain cpus. In which case instead of giving us bulldozer specific fix they should optimize their audio engine so it doesn't tax floating core points so much or whatever. Just like other every other game including final fantasy 14 from a november that sounded perfectly normal.

With "real soundcard" i mean a soundcard which processes the audio with specialized hardware. The not so cheap Soundblaster-cards are such soundcards. External (USB) soundcards do it via driver in software because it is cheaper. But it utilizes the CPU.


And why it worked in ShB and it does not work in EW anymore that is a thing i cannot tell you because i do not code the client. It can be a newer software development toolkit with newer programming language compilers etc. And they have increased the minimum system requirements. This could also be a reason and EW needs more CPU processing power and this triggers this audio issue etc.



Cheers

[RevanNight]

After ALL the work arounds and level adjustments AND getting the new audio it is STILL popping and ruining my cutscenes. I cannot enjoy them at all. PLEASE fix this devs! I can totally understand why people are canceling subs. We should NOT have to buy new hardware and spend more money to make this playable. The responsibility is with the devs. Period.