Music/sound issues on PS3

[xLessax]

I think something is a little off with my sound/music. I'm unable to hear the voice acting during cut scenes I know are supposed to have voices, and I can no longer hear the music that is played during generic FATEs. I'm on a PS3 and I haven't touched any sound settings, at least that I'm aware off.

Any help, pointers and tips would be greatly appreciated

[Moriix]

go to your sound settings in the game and you will see a box where you can change sounds and many other options set them to default or try fix them and if you still cant hear it maybe its your ps3 cable .

[xLessax]

My sound settings never left default and I've had the system hooked up to several televisions with different HDMI cables. No change.

[Bahd_Monkey]

Has nothing to do with your HDMI cable. Not all cut scenes are voiced. In fact some are 50% (or less) voiced and the rest of the scene is just text, and some scenes have no voice over at all. Also, during some FATEs I'll have the music drop out too, as well as lots of lag and invisible enemies.

I'm on PS3 too, using default settings.

[fancybandage]

Someone else called it a "slow memory leak", whatever that is, that is brought on by the intense strain of a variety of factors such as:

- The Duty Finder
- Fates
- Extended duration of play

So it happens to me rather frequently (at least once a day) because I fall into basically all of those categories. The solution? Restart FFXIV. I've tried Log Out and Exit Game, but those didn't do the trick for me. I had to get back to the square 1 PS3 menu. Now before anyone starts saying that it's not fair to PS3 players or anything like that, please give this young mmo a chance to work out the kinks. Defiance had similar issues with "Ark Falls", which are pretty much the exact same thing in a different genre (some field appears on the map, lots of players converge upon said spot, lots of monsters start spawning, etc) as Fates, and the sound would get wayyyy crazy. It never went "out" for me completely, but it definitely had some serious bugs which I don't see a reason in describing here. All I will say is that Defiance eventually patched something, and it stopped being an issue.

I can only assume that SE will do something similar, eventually, but with the laundry list of other problems they are currently addressing, there's no telling how high or low on the list of priorites the PS3 sound issues are. So when it happens, just tell your friends, FC, whatever, "Hey I'll be back in a few, gotta restart", do so, and waste no more concern on it.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Something like this is addressed by 2.05, so it might be fixed now, or at least reduced considerably.