Experiencing unusual animation/audio lag.

[KageTokage]

Well, now I can't even get the game to start up properly now, so there seems to potentially be some kind of SSD corruption issue.

I am not using Steam, however, so I cannot do a file check to see if there's something wrong in that regard.

EDIT: It turns out something was basically eating up ALL of my SSD's resources (It was constantly sitting at 100% according to the task manager even when XIV wasn't running), meaning it was getting so overloaded that it couldn't run or even start XIV properly. A simple restart of the computer has resolved things for now and all of the aforementioned issues are gone for the time being.

So lesson learned, if you're getting weird audio/animation hiccups but not seeing any actual delay in the effects of skills going off, it likely means there's an issue with your computer's data storage.