Ingame Sound/Music extrem stuttering in battles

[Aylin]

I'm glad that worked for you.
Many of us have tried that as well as several other attempts to remedy it and it is still happening.
SE refuses to take responsibility for this. I love this game, but if this isn't addressed soon, I will likely cancel my sub (and all of my extra retainers, paying for the premium app access, and any money I would spend on the mogstation).

[AriannaStormwake]

for the endsinger trial zenos line in the beginning and those of the boss were hard to hear due to stuttering
only her last 3 lines in the final phase were clear(after the music changes)

[ClarkCiccero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqD8...erynExcalafell


Problem "solved"

[Shalyra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqD8...erynExcalafell


Problem "solved"

Thats exactly how I solved m'y audio stuttering but honestly im not gonna throw 18€ so it fix m'y issue permanently....

[Telvanni_Guard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqD8...erynExcalafell


Problem "solved"

In that video specifically I can still hear it stuttering a bit for various effects but it's nowhere near as bad as it was when it was off.

[Kintosi]

I'm experiencing this problem as well. I'm extremely disappointed that Square broke sound for a lot of players with older machines for the sake of making $$ through 3rd party sound software. I played this game since 2.0 on this same PC with no issues until they tried to shoe-horn in the spatial immersive audio. I tried running the program, and after it made me take a super creepy picture of my ear to verify my account (no, literally... no joke there.) it IMPROVED the problem, but didn't even fix it. On top of that the "immersive audio experience" is tinny and cheap sounding, like some intern took normal headphones and tried to simulate surround sound with them. No way would I pay $20 for this crap normally, much less to fix a bug introduced to sell out to this 3rd party.

If this isn't fixed, and/or Square actually does this NFT thing, I think all respect I had for the company will be gone. Along with my sub and future purchases of any SE products.

[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.

6.05 and still having the same issues ))
I really miss being able to play with the audio on. The game doesn't feel right without it but even a minute of the stuttering gives me a headache.

[Hokin]

I'm having the same problem! Nothing has worked to fix it though some things have mitigated it. Im shocked there hasnt been any official reply from SE on this considering how many people it seems to be happening to.

[Nommers]

From the Big Thread (it's about the same issue): https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5797835

Greetings,

Thanks again to everyone who submitted detailed information regarding the ongoing sound-related issue. Rest assured, the bug reports that were moved to the Duplicate Bug section have been also passed down and have been helpful in our investigation.

While it has taken some time to narrow down the conditions of the issue, we were able to reproduce it on our end.

We discovered an anomaly in the calculation process within FFXIV's game sound driver where the number of digits is not being adjusted correctly. Due to this, some CPUs with certain characteristics are unable to keep up with the calculation processes and have a high possibility of encountering the issue.

As mentioned previously, we noticed this primarily occurs on older CPU models that are around 10 years old, but have also confirmed cases on some of the latest CPU models.

We are continuing to investigate the matter and are working on a resolution to ensure that CPUs with these characteristics will be able to handle these processes correctly. Our current plans are to conduct pattern tests and release an additional fix in the next patch.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work towards resolving this issue.

So they've replicated the problem, acknowledged that it's a bug on their end, and confirmed that fixes are coming. A Japanese community rep made an almost identical post in the JP forums a few days ago. A Lodestone post would have been ideal but I suspect they want to avoid that until they can give an ETA on this patch they mentioned. Here's hoping it's not 6.1, as that's at least two months away.

[HyoMinPark]

Just chiming in to say I’ve been dealing with this a lot the past week. It was particularly bad during Early Access, but lightened up some afterwards. However, this week, the audio stuttering is terrible. And there are additional effects to it when it happens to me: the audio cuts out (except for the BGM), animations delay/stop entirely, there’s no combat sounds at all from skills or even just character voices, and then mechanic visuals and damage won’t actually proc on my end until the sound resumes. It’s been so distracting and annoying trying to prog Savage as a healer, and have the damage register about 5 seconds after the mechanic has already gone out.

I’ve checked my VPN—there’s no packet loss involved. It doesn’t seem to resolve itself between logins. Sometimes I’ll go several hours without a problem only to have this stuttering flare up without warning in a given instance. Checked my PC, and it doesn’t seem overly heated or have anything in the background that might be causing throttling of any kind.

Whatever is causing this, I sure hope there’s a fix soon. Because it’s terrible.

EDIT: Also acknowledging that my PC is not that old. It’s definitely not using parts that are nearly a decade in age.