Audio popping issue

[TojiSuzuhara]

asked the Legend Soken directly himself on twitter and he responded saying they are planning to have this fixed BEFORE 6.1. As frustrating as this issue is, i have nothing but respect that a lead developer goes out of their way to respond to people personally like this. Crossing my fingers this gets fixed asap

https://twitter.com/SOKENsquareenix/...54502893629443

hopefully this helps alleviate fears

[Larirawiel]

Good news.


Cheers

[Nuki]

asked the Legend Soken directly himself on twitter and he responded saying they are planning to have this fixed BEFORE 6.1. As frustrating as this issue is, i have nothing but respect that a lead developer goes out of their way to respond to people personally like this. Crossing my fingers this gets fixed asap

https://twitter.com/SOKENsquareenix/...54502893629443

hopefully this helps alleviate fears

to be fair, they could just post an announcement on the lodestone for that, but i guess they dont want bad press on their homepage since they push all these new shiny "audio tools"

Iam happy that its getting fixed now so i dont rly care.

[rojimboo]

Does anyone know if FFXIV on Windows can take exclusive control of the soundcard? Has anyone tried and tested to check that box in sound card properties?

I know there's a fix coming, but I'm just wondering if this could be fixed for Windows users ahead of time already, as it is for Linux users

[megamino]

to be fair, they could just post an announcement on the lodestone for that, but i guess they dont want bad press on their homepage since they push all these new shiny "audio tools"

Iam happy that its getting fixed now so i dont rly care.

Yeah, i got the sense of why they are handling this on forum instead of lodestone... they might don't want to have bad press with their third party sound tools since this problem arise when they integrate it with the third party... But, so far FF14 devs all about transparency but might be wrong on couple of situations. It's a company nonetheless and they can do this knowing the risk of bad publicity on some players

Does anyone know if FFXIV on Windows can take exclusive control of the soundcard? Has anyone tried and tested to check that box in sound card properties?

I know there's a fix coming, but I'm just wondering if this could be fixed for Windows users ahead of time already, as it is for Linux users

OOT a bit but i kinda wonder how to play this on linux... but that's on another topic..

[rojimboo]

OOT a bit but i kinda wonder how to play this on linux... but that's on another topic..

Yes, this is probably a bit off-topic, but here goes briefly. It's literally just pressing the big 'Play' button in Steam, so it's super easy. And for the standalone version, it's 'fairly' easy if you're willing to copy paste some commands into the terminal But it's possible not everything will go smoothly.

However, if you do get it all working, there's the added benefit of no crackling sound bugs already! Also possibly better performance on most rigs, but this should be nominal and YMMV.

Back to the topic at hand, it would be great if some Windows user could test the exclusive mode and priority in the soundcard settings effect? I don't have Windows since a couple years now, so can't test this. Apologies if this has been tried already in this 100+ page thread! It's just that this fixes it in Linux, so I thought something similar would help in Windows too.

[TojiSuzuhara]

to be fair, they could just post an announcement on the lodestone for that, but i guess they dont want bad press on their homepage since they push all these new shiny "audio tools"

Iam happy that its getting fixed now so i dont rly care.

i think its that and the fact that this is most likely considered a "fringe" issue. its nice knowing i wasn't crazy and the only one having this problem, but i've just accepted the fact that more ppl would need to be experiencing this for them to acknowledge it "officially" on the lodestone

[ClaraKitty]

asked the Legend Soken directly himself on twitter and he responded saying they are planning to have this fixed BEFORE 6.1. As frustrating as this issue is, i have nothing but respect that a lead developer goes out of their way to respond to people personally like this. Crossing my fingers this gets fixed asap

https://twitter.com/SOKENsquareenix/...54502893629443

hopefully this helps alleviate fears

That's fantastic! That's all we wanted to hear.

My husband hasn't had this issue at all and his PC is older than mine, so he's been hoping it gets fixed for my sake.

[Artemicion]

Yes, this is probably a bit off-topic, but here goes briefly. It's literally just pressing the big 'Play' button in Steam, so it's super easy. And for the standalone version, it's 'fairly' easy if you're willing to copy paste some commands into the terminal But it's possible not everything will go smoothly.

However, if you do get it all working, there's the added benefit of no crackling sound bugs already! Also possibly better performance on most rigs, but this should be nominal and YMMV.

Back to the topic at hand, it would be great if some Windows user could test the exclusive mode and priority in the soundcard settings effect? I don't have Windows since a couple years now, so can't test this. Apologies if this has been tried already in this 100+ page thread! It's just that this fixes it in Linux, so I thought something similar would help in Windows too.

I have "Allow apps to take exclusive control of device" selected, but not "Give exclusive mode apps priority" and DO experience stuttering. I'll tick the priority option as well and try it out this evening.

[Puss_Kat]

Does anyone know if FFXIV on Windows can take exclusive control of the soundcard? Has anyone tried and tested to check that box in sound card properties?

I know there's a fix coming, but I'm just wondering if this could be fixed for Windows users ahead of time already, as it is for Linux users

it opens a shared session only.