Audio popping issue

[Ecto478]

I so happy when saw the audio issue is being fixed on patch 6.08, but my game still stuttering on every battle instance, its lessen than before but definitely sucks that i cant hear any bgm properly in game, i know my laptop is old, but it's has been working properly ever since sb, until endwalker is released and even after patch its not fully fixed, i hope it's resolved on 6.1

[GutsyBoozetank]

So far so good! I didn't hear any stuttering or any other audio issues yesterday. The Radz-at-Han BGM was a stuttering mess, even more so if the game window was not active. Now the music is perfect even when the game window isn't active. Thank you!

[Revolversniper]

I'd like to confirm the audio stuttering is now gone, and hopefully on other's ends as well. Played for atleast 20+ hours and watching cutscenes and doing newer raids and no audio issues.

[Teiren]

Even as the oddball with the 12+ year-old Intel CPU, it's completely gone for me too, so that's certainly great and takes that headache out of things.

However,

I am still extremely disappointed that the game is still on the new, bad sound engine. It's just somehow wrong compared to pre-Endwalker audio, in particular the various volume levels for battle voices and some effects. This is the last time I'll complain about it here because it's clear that it's here to stay, permanently, because it's very likely required for the worthless spatial audio that they were surely forced into implementing at the last minute for a minor payday. I just had to voice my displeasure one last time in case of the smallest chance the sentiment gets back to someone that matters.

At least I can get mostly used to it, unlike the stuttering, so at least it's not the end of the world. And it's good the music isn't seriously affected by it, might even be the tiniest bit improved, which is one of the most important things.

[Artemicion]

No more stutter/crackle for me either. Was finally able to uninstall Immerse...was blown away for a while at how crisp & clear everything sounds without it. The spatial sound definitely isn't my thing. Very glad the team was able to address the issues.

[veeika]

Hi, here to report I have not had sound crackling before. Some lags here and there, nothing crazy. But since .08 I've started to have quite a lot of issues with the sound. I used to be able to watch youtube while playing no problem, now after .08 I cannot have anything open aside from FFXIV to have it run properly, and even then the sound is horrible with raids, in cities, anything that has some movement. The game is running relatively smoothly, but the sound is having a lot of trouble. I've already disabled the controller sounds just in case, even though I do not have a controller connected. Weird that it started now, is anybody else experiencing this?

[Vyy]

Hi, here to report I have not had sound crackling before. Some lags here and there, nothing crazy. But since .08 I've started to have quite a lot of issues with the sound. I used to be able to watch youtube while playing no problem, now after .08 I cannot have anything open aside from FFXIV to have it run properly, and even then the sound is horrible with raids, in cities, anything that has some movement. The game is running relatively smoothly, but the sound is having a lot of trouble. I've already disabled the controller sounds just in case, even though I do not have a controller connected. Weird that it started now, is anybody else experiencing this?

I started to have the same issue on iMac after 6.08
Never had issues before. This is odd, it seems to be "fixed" but now new reports emerge from players who had no issue.

[tenchi671]

I started to have the same issue on iMac after 6.08
Never had issues before. This is odd, it seems to be "fixed" but now new reports emerge from players who had no issue.

I'm playing on an M1 Mac Mini and the "crackling" audio problems started happening right after the 6.08 update for me as well. I can mute the BGM, but it's not the same if I do that.

[Fiel_Tana]

I'm playing on an M1 Mac Mini and the "crackling" audio problems started happening right after the 6.08 update for me as well. I can mute the BGM, but it's not the same if I do that.

Another Mac M1 user here with the same crackling audio issues. started with the patch this week.

Also have noticed other oddities like outdoor ambient sounds inside buildings, the inn room and grand company barracks, for example, now have birds, ocean waves etc.

While it's possible to mute the BGM (which is not ideal, the music is an amazing part of the experience), it does still crackle in the other channels, it's just less noticeable depending what audio is playing. For example in voiced cutscenes it was noticeable.

[eforsyt2]

I'm playing on an M1 Mac Mini and the "crackling" audio problems started happening right after the 6.08 update for me as well. I can mute the BGM, but it's not the same if I do that.

Same issues as well. I've been streaming Final Fantasy soundracks and only keeping on the sound effects in-game.