Audio popping issue

[rojimboo]

I've had it set to allow exclusive mode and to give priority, with all other playback devices disabled all along, so no luck there.

For Linux to handle something game related better than windows is certainly a first for me though, really interesting. (Not to mention on a game built for windows!) Maybe the move off the sinking ship might be sooner than I thought.

Thank you for testing this! Sucks that it didn't work though

Yeah, I was completely surprised that Linux worked better than Windows here. I'm not sure that's ever happened to me before. Sure, I can get parity with Windows in most games, but less buggy or better in Linux?? Never, haha.

(you don't have to reply this but giving it anyway to ended the discussion)
Mine live in the region that doesn't have FF14 on the steam unfortunately, but i hope i can work it out using the standalone... but that's for another day, thank you for sharing it ^^

No worries dude! If you ever need a hand with stuff to get FFXIV working on Linux, gimme a shout

I can replicate it under the conditions of having the SFX muted in various content using a xeon x5960 overclocked to 4.2Ghz,
but my living room setup with a xeon 1680v2 at 4.2ghz struggles to replicate the same increases of cpu usage (that said i was testing off-peak)

Ah ok. So it affects a wide variety of CPUs (perhaps all?). That's really unfortunate. Doesn't seem like there's much people can do on Windows to help with this annoying bug.

Here's a toast with a beer, whilst waiting for the fix to land! Cheers!

[pastelbaphomet]

I've also been having this problem ever since Endwalker dropped. I've tried dx9, lowering bitrate, reinstalling the game, reinstalling my own drivers, setting low graphics, and lots of sound setting fiddling but I still get the sound stuttering. Dialog is timed pretty tightly so with the audio clipping on and off characters only get to say about half of their voicelines before moving on to the next line. Visually there are no problems, but I would really like to experience Endwalker in full, especially since the soundtrack is what drew me to the game in the first place.

Potentially relevant specs:

Motherboard: 990FXA Gaming MS-7893
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor (6 CPUs), ~4.2GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Let me know if further information would be useful in any way.

[GorthRedsteel]

I've also been having this problem ever since Endwalker dropped. I've tried dx9, lowering bitrate, reinstalling the game, reinstalling my own drivers, setting low graphics, and lots of sound setting fiddling but I still get the sound stuttering. Dialog is timed pretty tightly so with the audio clipping on and off characters only get to say about half of their voicelines before moving on to the next line. Visually there are no problems, but I would really like to experience Endwalker in full, especially since the soundtrack is what drew me to the game in the first place.

Potentially relevant specs:

Motherboard: 990FXA Gaming MS-7893
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor (6 CPUs), ~4.2GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Let me know if further information would be useful in any way.

Nothing you can do but wait for the fix from devs. Well, nothing except upgrading your prehistoric machine. lel

[Lihtleita]

Nothing you can do but wait for the fix from devs. Well, nothing except upgrading your prehistoric machine. lel

in any other current game id agree with you, but if the benchmark says you can run it, you shouldnt have weird audio or visual bugs.
especially in a game thats about a decade old.

[paga]

and not only old cpu's are affected, the problems on my ryzen 5 5600x aren't as severe as others but it still lowers the quality of an otherwise fantastic game.

[Grimno]

Actually encountered someone during Trial Roulette who was suffering from choppy audio to the point they had to mute their end and pausing to do so got them killed...

[FatalCharm]

The problems(which didn't exist before endwalker) are obviously tied to that stupid spatial audio pack that NOBODY asked for. If you can't make it work properly, get rid of it. Don't jerk us around trying to put the blame on people's hardware.

I agree 100%

[Puss_Kat]

Actually encountered someone during Trial Roulette who was suffering from choppy audio to the point they had to mute their end and pausing to do so got them killed...

Mute globally, do not mute the individual channels or if you do, set to 1 on the slider instead of 0 or mute.

having the channels muted in some fights can lead to the audio thread maxing out a cpu core and hanging up the game until the audio processing completes also leading to deaths.

[ClaraKitty]

Nothing you can do but wait for the fix from devs. Well, nothing except upgrading your prehistoric machine. lel

You're right on the former, but the latter, not so much. The devs confirmed (as well as other players) it's on their end, not ours. My PC isn't even 3 years old and having the issues.

[thesm1l3y]

Mute globally, do not mute the individual channels or if you do, set to 1 on the slider instead of 0 or mute.

having the channels muted in some fights can lead to the audio thread maxing out a cpu core and hanging up the game until the audio processing completes also leading to deaths.

With mute globally you mean turn down the master, right?