Quote Originally Posted by Ariellendera View Post
Hello Riardon,

I would like to suggest doing a clean re-boot. Launch FFXIV without anything else including web browsers in the background. If you could please keep track of the following things:

-Does not having firefox open make any difference?
-Where in the game are you located when the sound goes out?
-Are you actively using controls when the sound goes out or are you idle?

Hope to be of assistance
It just happened again today. Firefox opened and browsing Twitter. A video was playing with sound on the Video player. The game was minimized. Returned to game sound was gone.
-I will test this more because I need time.
-I was in the The Lochs area when it happened.
-The game was minimized and switched to with ALT+TAB

Is it possible that the game thinks I'm changing sound device and stops the sound? I know this game does't support switching of sound devices on the fly without restarts and it goes back when you change the output device while it's open.
Maybe it's somewhat more sensible that it should and this is why it happens only on XIV but not on my Video players or Music players or the other games I play.
Will check some things more and report back again.