Fixing headphone plugging issues.

[MrKusakabe]

Oh my! That'd be splendid!
When doing boring tasks ingame (Hello Castrum roulette!) I usually set it from my soundcard to my HDMI device in the Windows control panel.
This way I can hear the gamesound a bit while watching TV. But as soon as I set from "SoundBlasterZ" to "HDMI", it goes silent. Plugging in and out - silence. When I am not keen on restarting (e.g. Duty Finder) I usually pumped up my headset's sound and put them on my desk.

I hope they really get it right. That is just as annoying as games like Dishonored 2 do not rea-tlime realize when you switch from controller to keyboard and mouse - something almost all games do.

[Jeeqbit]

I've never had an issue unplugging and plugging headphones while the game is running, but I've been plugging directly into the speaker socket of the computer or laptop, rather than indirectly into a speaker.

[Neri]

I've never had an issue unplugging and plugging headphones while the game is running, but I've been plugging directly into the speaker socket of the computer or laptop, rather than indirectly into a speaker.

Is that green jack socket that you plugged in? Since the problem only occurred on the usb type, not the socket.

[LalaRu]

Changing default output audio device, right now is a guaranteed client crash. Great thing to hear the benchmark is not affected, and it makes up for hopes about the expansion's upcoming client.

[KarstenS]

Aside from ShB and the jobs changes controversies overall, I wanted to point out that it's going to be 5.0 and we still have to restart the game after plugging headphones. It would be nice to fix this issue someday...

I have given it up to wait for a solution of this.

My workaround is the "Elgato Sound Capture" software, which is part of the Elgato Game Capture Software. With this you can send the sound to as many audio devices as you want at the same time.

Before this got released I've used another software solution (forgot the name). But this one had a huge latency.

[Kyohei]

This has been fixed for the Benchmark, which is really just a stripped down client. It came with a SoundCoreBridge.dll, that seems to be handling this. No reason to fix it just for the benchmark.

Nice, thanks for the info I hope you're right !

[linay]

I have an issue with my Bluetooth headset. The game doesn't crash, just the sound won't transfer to the headset if the game is already running before the headset is turned on/connected and so the game has to be restarted. I hope it's the same issue with the USB type issue and hopefully it's been fixed by 5.0.

[Shougun]

I have an issue with my Bluetooth headset. The game doesn't crash, just the sound won't transfer to the headset if the game is already running before the headset is turned on/connected and so the game has to be restarted. I hope it's the same issue with the USB type issue and hopefully it's been fixed by 5.0.

I think that's what OP was talking about too since they said you have to restart to change audio (quite different than being crashed lol). This issue is also with 3.5mm cords depending on how things are set up. I don't crash when I switch either but I don't use USB but I used to have to restart the game to change from my headphones (3.5mm) to my speakers (hooked up via 3.5mm). I can now though switch audio between speakers and headphones since I've incorporated an extended male to female cord that is always plugged in.

Just wanted to add that since I didn't realize USB had a problem either (crash to desktop sounds fabulous..... lol hope that's fixed for sure!), but I saw some USB people here talking about how 3.5/other didn't have an issue per say (which imo having to restart is an issue, or at least annoyance).

[linay]

I think that's what OP was talking about too since they said you have to restart to change audio (quite different than being crashed lol). This issue is also with 3.5mm cords depending on how things are set up. I don't crash when I switch either but I don't use USB but I used to have to restart the game to change from my headphones (3.5mm) to my speakers (hooked up via 3.5mm). I can now though switch audio between speakers and headphones since I've incorporated an extended male to female cord that is always plugged in.

Just wanted to add that since I didn't realize USB had a problem either (crash to desktop sounds fabulous..... lol hope that's fixed for sure!), but I saw some USB people here talking about how 3.5/other didn't have an issue per say (which imo having to restart is an issue, or at least annoyance).

Aw, well that just diminishes my hope, lol. (Speaking of USB problem, I do have a problem with using gamepad on PC that sometimes temporarily disconnects the gamepad while playing FFXIV. One good thing about using Steam is that it automatically reconnects the gamepad, but it's still an ongoing issue.)

[Shougun]

Aw, well that just diminishes my hope, lol. (Speaking of USB problem, I do have a problem with using gamepad on PC that sometimes temporarily disconnects the gamepad while playing FFXIV. One good thing about using Steam is that it automatically reconnects the gamepad, but it's still an ongoing issue.)

I imagine if it is fixed for USB (allowing the PC to switch devices) then it'll be switched for us too (someone suggested it's good to go in the benchmark). Just seems like USB explodes while some of us non-USB don't lol, I've never crashed but I've had the game refuse to recognize I don't want to use speakers anymore and to switch to headphones (until I restarted, or until I switched to having them share the same line so the game/computer don't know or care that they could change).

Is the gamepad disconnecting just for FFXIV? I almost feel like that'd be another issue, because if people's gamepads (in general) were disconnecting I think there would be a riot on the forums on how it killed them during raid or something lol. May be able to trouble shoot that and fix it~! (That'd drive me mad, reminds me of when wireless mouses or keyboards didn't last for years or had super spotty connections lol).