All Sound but Ambient Noise Randomly Stops

[Qdox]

SOLVED: See later post

Within the past few days I've noticed that my sound has been cutting out after I start up the game at random times. I can just leave the game running with no other programs running and the in-game audio will all cut out except for the ambient background noise. I noticed when I was running Brayflox and suddenly, all I could hear from the game was the sound of the rushing water. This includes all BGM and sound effects. I've noticed this can even happen before I select my character in the main menu. Once I leave whatever area I'm in when the ambient sound is the only thing left, the ambient sound goes as well leaving me with no audio.

The sliders in my options menu are all turned up to 100 at all times, and nothing changes when this happens, they don't just suddenly go down or anything. I have noticed no pattern of when the audio chooses to cut out, I can just stand in place and at some time it will just stop. To fix it, I have to restart the client entirely, and then it will work for another random amount of time from 2 to 30 minutes or so.

I've tried installing all manner of audio drivers, I've tried using both my usb audio card and my onboard one. I've tried reinstalling the game. I've tried resetting system settings from the launcher. I don't know what the problem is, it seems to be a problem with the game itself. My audio devices are not being switched out while the game is running or anything either.



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[Squa11_Leonhart]

Logitech usb headphones?

[Qdox]

Logitech usb headphones?

No, just a Yamaha usb sound card which appears as USB Audio Codec under sound devices, meaning it's generic. I've also tried with my onboard soundcard through Realtek HD Audio drivers, which do the same thing.

[Qdox]

SOLVED

Alright I have no idea how this fixed anything at all, and I pity anyone who has this problem themselves. To fix this, I pulled a controller out of my computer's USB slot. Not even a controller, a Mayflash Gamecube Adapter for plugging in controllers. As soon as I did that, all the sound came back within my active session of FFXIV. I don't even want to know how this fixed anything, but if you're having the same problem, try pulling out USB devices.