No Sound Effects

[FunkyBunch]

Bumping to bring more attention to this issue and also to mention that while the fix suggested on the first page by changing the default output via sound settings on Win10 did bring me from 0 sound to some sound, the sound still lacks voice acting and major battle cue effects. It's not playable for the intended experience so hopefully the attention being brought to this will spur on more immediate action from the team to fix this.

I am playing on PC with latest updated Win10 OS, RTX 3070 gpu and AMD 5 5600x CPU for reference. Seen a few post about being on PS5 with these issues, so I'm thinking any fixes on our end are likely temporary and it appears the issues are more likely to happen in congested areas / dungeons / trials. The first time this happened was during EW's first mini-boss in the first dungeon. I had been playing fine until that point.

Are you using a controller?
For me it was a combination of Windows using the controller as the main output and the sound settings in the client. By changing the controller to all, then none, then going to sounds->apps and clicking the box and making it the right output, my problem was "fixed". I still have to do it randomly because the client and windows are stupid and will randomly make the controller the main output for some reason.

[Darneltia]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced with sound issues on Final Fantasy XIV. We have compiled a list of current issues with the game including sound related ones here:

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d6d790145bcf41

We appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter and ask that you try again at a later time to see if the issue persists along with keeping an eye out on the Lodestone website when further updates will become available.

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support forums!