Audio popping issue

[eforsyt2]

Anyone currently playing FFXIV on Apple Silicon and suffering from audio stuttering or framerate issues should visit this site: https://www.xivmac.com.

Their downloadable app will repackage the outdated, inefficient and unoptimized bottle that the macOS version of FFXIV ships out with from Square Enix with a newer, far more efficient and optimized bottle from the Crossweavers community that runs FFXIV flawlessly on Apple Silicon.

I personally experienced an increase in fps and the annoying audio stuttering is completely gone allowing me to once again enjoy my adventures in game.

Thanks for solving my problems. This is the way.

[Larirawiel]

Anyone currently playing FFXIV on Apple Silicon and suffering from audio stuttering or framerate issues should visit this site: https://www.xivmac.com.

The problem is, this tool may violate the terms of service if you enable some features of it. So i would not recommend it if the user does not know what he/she do.



Cheers

[Fiel_Tana]

The problem is, this tool may violate the terms of service if you enable some features of it. So i would not recommend it if the user does not know what he/she do.



Cheers

The problems came back again today even with the switching the audio format to 96Khz, so I'm looking for other alternatives.

Hypothetically speaking and umm... asking purely for educational purposes... for a friend... Which features should *not* be enabled, if someone were to try XIVMac for a playable game but does not want to break rules?

[Larirawiel]

The problems came back again today even with the switching the audio format to 96Khz, so I'm looking for other alternatives.

Hypothetically speaking and umm... asking purely for educational purposes... for a friend... Which features should *not* be enabled, if someone were to try XIVMac for a playable game but does not want to break rules?

Tell your *couch* friend *couch* that he should not use things that directly modify/spy the game or the game <-> server communication. I mean: no ACT and no custom launchers. DXVK should be OK because this is an API redirector and does not modify the game in any kind. But i have no clue how the sound fix works. Maybe it is also an API redirector but i do not know.



Cheers

[Fiel_Tana]

Ah thank you, I mean, my erm... my friend says thanks

[Scathan]

The problem is, this tool may violate the terms of service if you enable some features of it. So i would not recommend it if the user does not know what he/she do.



Cheers

It is not, in any way, changing the game. It is upgrading the existing WINE bottle (from years ago - Intel Mac era) with the latest versions. Allow me to quote their post (which you can find if you scrolled down on the link provided):

“Today, we're announcing our new initiative - a standalone Final Fantasy XIV app for the Mac. This app will contain everything necessary to get you back in Eorzea as quickly as possible - from a custom build of DXVK to reduce stutter and the latest version of MoltenVK with optimisations for Apple M1. No CrossOver needed.

Since we are now in charge of shipping the Wine runtime, this also paves the way for even more optimisations in the future.“

I hope this fixes your issues as it did mine and allows all of us Apple Silicon players to enjoy the game.

[Scathan]

The problems came back again today even with the switching the audio format to 96Khz, so I'm looking for other alternatives.

Hypothetically speaking and umm... asking purely for educational purposes... for a friend... Which features should *not* be enabled, if someone were to try XIVMac for a playable game but does not want to break rules?

Just install the app and the app alone

[Larirawiel]

It is not, in any way, changing the game. It is upgrading the existing WINE bottle (from years ago - Intel Mac era) with the latest versions. Allow me to quote their post (which you can find if you scrolled down on the link provided):

“Today, we're announcing our new initiative - a standalone Final Fantasy XIV app for the Mac. This app will contain everything necessary to get you back in Eorzea as quickly as possible - from a custom build of DXVK to reduce stutter and the latest version of MoltenVK with optimisations for Apple M1. No CrossOver needed.

Since we are now in charge of shipping the Wine runtime, this also paves the way for even more optimisations in the future.“

I hope this fixes your issues as it did mine and allows all of us Apple Silicon players to enjoy the game.

If it would be an upgraded WINE or DXVK thing alone then it would be not a problem. But they have also support for ACT, Dalamund plugin and the famous XIV Launcher. This tools clearly violate the terms of service.


Cheers

[Scathan]

If it would be an upgraded WINE or DXVK thing alone then it would be not a problem. But they have also support for ACT, Dalamund plugin and the famous XIV Launcher. This tools clearly violate the terms of service.


Cheers

Don’t install those, then. It isn’t even in the app itself. You talk like as if you have tried it when in fact you obviously haven’t. You will need separate installs for all those other tools as it only supports them, it doesn’t install them.

I am just greatful someone finally addressed us macOS users because Square Enix has completely neglected us.

[veeika]

Has anyone else noticed that FFXIV is really heavy on their GPU? My CPU is fine, however FFXIV seems to eat up 97-100% of my GPU and no other games (heavier ones) do this to my PC. This is all so weird, I have not had any issues until EW. After EW I did not have audio problems - some other minor performance issues. But since 6.08 it's gotten pretty bad with my audio.
I have an Intel i5-4460 and GeForce GTX 750 Ti - maybe not the most high end hardware but it has never had this problem before. I tried playing around with audio settings, turned off all unnecessary things, hell, even turned all graphic settings all the way down. Nothing helps, this is isolated to audio alone. I'm very curious what the hell this patch did.