Audio popping issue

[Puss_Kat]

I still get it HOWEVER it's gone much better now since it's not stuttering while in the big city like OS, but it happened when pulling mobs in the dungeon... I'm still have DX9 as an option so i might stick to that for now..

For now, i might want to give a try and report back with my bug report... I don't know what to say though since it's only "Intel Integrated Graphics" so yeah might be "yeah sir, your laptop is too potato", but again "This is not happening before EW release"

Yeah kinda back and forth and then probably just hoping they will not disabling DX9 for a long term now *fingercrossed

you might want to confirm the tjmax of your cpu and actual temps during game play, the cpu usage is back to if not better than 5.5 levels.

Right. After endless fiddling and fidgeting with the settings, I think I may have found a temporarily fix/reduction. I tested this right in the middle of when the sound was stuttering literally every 5 seconds and had three clean minutes of sound on trial 2 + no stuttering in The Goblet or Radz-at-Han after. All of these fixes are necessary, I tried switching from FullScreen back to Borderless and the stuttering came back. This is assuming you've applied the fixes suggested in patch notes.

1. Switch to Fullscreen Display
2. Ensure that FPS is capped 1/1 or uncapped
3. Go to System Configuration -> Sound Settings -> Wireless Controller Settings, and set Speaker sounds to None. I reduced volume to 0 and muted for good measure.
4. If you use a gamepad/controller to play, either play wirelessly, or if you connect via cable, disable the controller as a sound device in your Windows settings. To do this, connect your controller, go to Sound Settings -> Device Properties -> Additional device properties -> On the General window, right at the bottom, change Device Usage to "Don't use this device (disable)"

This combination seems to work for me so far, but I'll feed back over the course of the coming few days if the issue comes back or if the issue remains fixed like this. At the moment I have my graphics reduced to mitigate, but if the fix holds I'll gradually increase. Note that this worked with a listening position of 50.

There is a Windows 10 specific issue affecting FFXIV that is not caused by patches, nor display drivers, go through the list of running programs and close them down till the issue stops.
It's connected to something stealing focus.

[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.

[Shinjo]

My ambient sound does still doing popping sound .
The only way to fix it for me is to mute the ambient sound... then the problem is gone.
So... not fixed for everyone.

[XenophineEX]

Yay no more stuttering for me. The last patch fixed it, I am on a AMD FX 6300. My thanks to the development team for the fix.

[Puss_Kat]

My ambient sound does still doing popping sound .
The only way to fix it for me is to mute the ambient sound... then the problem is gone.
So... not fixed for everyone.

the ambient sound is 100% fixed, check your cpu tjmax and game play temperatures.

[Ecto478]

i know i got low fps but it usually dont affect in game bgm or voices, the 08 patch quite lessen the issue but i in trial when the boss talking, they talk really slow as it my fps contributing to it, and i surely know its isn't an issue before shb, i don't expect sooner fix i just want them to acknowledge them for 6.1 perhaps