Combat Sound Effects Distorted

[YukikoKurosawa]

Nothing has worked for me so far. The game was working totally fine on Tuesday, so there has to be -something- that the devs can do to fix it. Or at least I hope. I honestly can't play with this godawful noise, and I've been waiting for this expansion for a long time now!

I'm pretty sure the devs play the game with SFX off. There's no way they listened to any of these and thought they were okay. I think the infamous GNB SFX changes are proof enough devs don't care about sound design at all.

[Asteria_Solstice]

Not sure if it's related to this, but playing on WAR I was getting very confused because the sound effects of combo weaponskills like Maim sounded as if you had wrongly hit them outside the combo. The sound effect of selling something to a vendor or retrieving gil from my retainer was also a lot higher than usual.

Yes im having the same problem too. When im in an alliance raid, i could barely even hear the Sound Effects.

[TaleraRistain]

My sound in combat is just one stuttering mess. I don't want to fight anything because it's unplayable. I have had some slowness and stuttering in music or cutscenes but that's been sporadic. Sometimes it's crystal clear. But combat consistently is just horrible.

[Muew19]

Having distorted static sounds only in combat since endwalker launched, all cutscenes are fine, music is fine, but once I enter combat the game starts distorting and making static noises.
At first I thought my PC maybe overheating or something but nope.
Never happened before endwalker.

[SarynJP]

Just joinin' in to add my "same" to the pot, pre-EW just fine, after launch any time im in combat or sometimes while im just chilling, all the sound sounds like its chopping in and out and is a little crackly. Ive already tried your typical stuff, adjusting listening position, trying Dx9 vs 11, changing EQ settings and the works.. im usually good about ignoring wierd things, but this makes it really rough, i have noticed that it seems like mvoing the camera around temporarily stops it or lessens the effect? idk how that would be related but it is.

[Tveoh]

Same issue, even cut scenes...

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[Sonje]

same issue... and i try all, dx9, low graphics...

[EldricBloodflower]

Same issue my end - also tried the dx9 and low graphics, dungeon was literally unplayable sound wise and had to disable, was vile - kept going on and off.

[Vallek]

Same issues also, tried dx9 low graphics and disabling all other audio output devices. Still the same issues even in cutscenes, group content is unplayable.

[Yahmosa]

Bump with the same sentiment.