6.08 Introduced the Audio Popping/Static to Mac players

[Teena]

Hi, I am having the same problem. I tried the fix with Audio Midi setup that cbakas42 described here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...to-Mac-players

However after a while, the problem reappears again. It's very frustrating. I was enjoying good part of the Endwalker story too.

I have submitted a bug report already.

Mine did work initially work too but was gone again the next time I launched the game. I've not tested properly yet exactly what the trigger is to 're-fix' the issue (so it may even just be luck) because I don't want to break it again, but I reopened Audio Midi setup, fussed about a bit with switching between the rates and re-saving between the switches, went back to the one that worked before, rebooted the game and the static is gone again.

Hopefully that will work for you too and hopefully it wasn't just luck for me and is at least an interim workaround till SE fix it.

[cbackas42]

Mine did work initially work too but was gone again the next time I launched the game. I've not tested properly yet exactly what the trigger is to 're-fix' the issue (so it may even just be luck) because I don't want to break it again, but I reopened Audio Midi setup, fussed about a bit with switching between the rates and re-saving between the switches, went back to the one that worked before, rebooted the game and the static is gone again.

Hopefully that will work for you too and hopefully it wasn't just luck for me and is at least an interim workaround till SE fix it.

I confirm that after longer testing, raising the sampling rate only temporarily fixes it. For me the problem returned within an hour at 82khz, and within 2 hours at 96khz. Although in no case was it anywhere near as bad as at the default rates at least.