Fixing headphone plugging issues.

[Kyohei]

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...

[Shougun]

That would be nice .

Depending on your setup (this may not be helpful at all lol), you could buy a male to female cord (those 3.5mm things).. Then when you want to change from speakers to headphones plug and unplug from this extended cord (computer -> extended male to female cord -> your speakers/headphone goes here, just plug/unplug as needed).

In the computer's eyes you never change cords :3. So I can for example change FFXIV from speakers to headphones, and of course other picky applications.

Not that the above should be the "solution" people go looking to for this issue lol. It'd be preferable this wasn't a problem of course. I have the cord setup for other reasons and just happened to notice it was helpful for applications that got picky lol (but depending on how you have things set up it may not be optimal/possible).

[Kyohei]

Oh, that's some interesting solutions to try thanks! But yeah, the developers team should really still give some thought about it. That being said, I just recalled how the live letter was a mess because of sounds issues and it's not too encouraging.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Oh, that's some interesting solutions to try thanks! But yeah, the developers team should really still give some thought about it. That being said, I just recalled how the live letter was a mess because of sounds issues and it's not too encouraging.

They were using a rented space in San Francisco, not their office, and not the usual place in Tokyo. I can't really fault them too much for the issues since it wasn't their equipment and they likely didn't have much time to verify it worked.

[Kyohei]

They were using a rented space in San Francisco, not their office, and not the usual place in Tokyo. I can't really fault them too much for the issues since it wasn't their equipment and they likely didn't have much time to verify it worked.

Well then no excuses for not trying to fix the headphones issue!

[Commander_Justitia]

This was reported so often in so many ways. There was even some official response one time I think," coding might be too difficult "then some guy posted how to do it (as dev) lol... My solution atm is to have multiple outputs plugged in when I start the game. Basically back of Mainboard for speakers and front for earphone let's you change(plugging in and out earphones) while playing the game between those two. Not really ideal... Games in the 90s could change audio sources while ingame already man, it's ancient

[Sarevok_Thordin]

This was reported so often in so many ways. There was even some official response one time I think," coding might be too difficult "then some guy posted how to do it (as dev) lol... My solution atm is to have multiple outputs plugged in when I start the game. Basically back of Mainboard for speakers and front for earphone let's you change(plugging in and out earphones) while playing the game between those two. Not really ideal... Games in the 90s could change audio sources while ingame already man, it's ancient

The problem specifically relates to USB Headsets because that involves changing the sound driver, which FFXIV really doesn't like handling.

3.5mm jacks don't really have this issue as it's the device that handles it, not the driver.

[Niqote]

Ooooh so this isn't just a me issue. Good to know that I actually can't fix it! Boy, did I try XD

[Sove92]

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.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

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.

Can confirm its new, not in the previous benchmarks, i checked (still have them all downloaded).

Maybe this means a fix for the expansion is coming.