Thread: audio problems since 2.51 update

Since the update I keep losing certain sound effects. I can't hear my spells or the limit break sound. I am still getting music. I am playing on PS4 and the sound is through the TV. I have made no hardware changes and everything was fine before the patch. I can fix the problem by restarting the game but it's getting annoying. All my other games are fine. Something is not right. I've tried everything on my end. Is this happening to anyone else?

I think the reason for this is the TV sound/sound system you're currently using. We need Soken-san to answer this question!

I just had a small issue with the Gold Saucer BGM overlapping with the Triple Triad theme, but that may have been lag induced, I'm not sure. Eventually, though, the Gold Saucer BGM cut out entirely, although I could still hear SFX and everything.

This has been happening to me since PS4 release. Only way to solve it is restart the client. I also agree, it's a pain in the butt. Would often happen after big fights (Hunts, Odin, Behemoth, etc), crowded areas in general made it happen. Mostly play on PC, so it's not THAT bothersome, if it was my system of choice, would drive me nuts.

It seems to happen when I'm in gold saucer so it might be crowded areas. The issue never fixes itself though.

Only time I've had this happen pre 2.51 was when I had my PS4 and FFXIV up and running for the duration of the PSN ddos over christams(4 or 5 days or so).

With 2.51 I've been noticing that either certain sound effects or certain BGM just cuts of at random points.

Another thing I've been noticing is skill lag. I will hit a skill, it shows the animation, shows it going off... then it doesn't register the action and resets the GCD(and I'm not the only one - most of my static have noticed this as well - heals not going off and such).

I've had sound issues rarely all the way back since beta. That early storyline mission in ul'dah for example where you're defending a woman...first time I did tha the music wouldnt play for me. When I did a much later storyline quest (the really cool battle cutscene in the sahagin area with various npcs) sound effects weren't playing for good parts of it, like no gunshot sounds.

It always feels like each time a new patch comes out, various issues that always existed suddenly act way worse until the next patch. When 2.4 came out my game kept going stuttery then crashing maybe 50% of the time I teleported somewhere.

Back in the day when me and my buddies were grinding out Animus when Brayflox HM was a thing, after about an hour or two of repeating that instance the sound would cut out bad. Always after the same amount of time entering and leaving that instance real fast. If I'm not spamming instances though I've never had an issue.