Audio popping issue

[TaleraRistain]

Nice, but is that patch 6.01 on the 21st...? We'll have to wait 2 weeks...?

Yes the "next patch" comment worries me. There are a lot of us who can't do MSQ because of this.

[OmniusOmnium]

Well they just released this:

"In the early morning of Wednesday, December 8, we will be conducting maintenance across all Worlds to address server errors aside from those mentioned above, as well as a few issues that can be resolved on the server side. This requires all servers to go offline and is estimated to take about four hours to complete. Details on maintenance timing will be announced in the future. I’d like to ask for your understanding and cooperation regarding this matter as well."

Although they didn't mention the sound issue specifically so I fear we will be waiting til 6.01 for any real progress on it. But I live in hope.

[Sarhina]

It primarily seems to be in dungeons or areas of dense combat for me, oddly moving the camera can briefly stop it. Not tried any of the fixes yet as they seem worse than the thing they're curing.
Just got into Asphodelos: the fourth circle and been hit with the WORST attack of this in the game, I had to switch off my sound completely.

[Nastrautum]

Idk if this will work for you but it worked for me.

went to system config, sound settings,

Volume Settings: MV-100,BGM-10,SE-10,Voice-10,SS-10,AS-10,Perfomance-10.
Player effects volume: all 60
Equalizer: Standard
Spatial Audio *this one seems to be optional from what I tested*: ON

changing it all to that seemed to mostly *though not completely it still pops in from time to time* get rid of the static for me and I just adjusted the sound on my headset to be able to hear better in game, hope it helps I messed with my head set for ages but adjusting in game volumes seem to be the only thing that worked. I
never seemed to have any fps drops or freezing during static issues however

[TojiSuzuhara]

Idk if this will work for you but it worked for me.

went to system config, sound settings,

Volume Settings: MV-100,BGM-10,SE-10,Voice-10,SS-10,AS-10,Perfomance-10.
Player effects volume: all 60
Equalizer: Standard
Spatial Audio *this one seems to be optional from what I tested*: ON

changing it all to that seemed to mostly *though not completely it still pops in from time to time* get rid of the static for me and I just adjusted the sound on my headset to be able to hear better in game, hope it helps I messed with my head set for ages but adjusting in game volumes seem to be the only thing that worked. I
never seemed to have any fps drops or freezing during static issues however

i tried this and although i only got a few hours of playtime cause of maintenance, i went through a few dungeons, did some fates, tested on a dummy and it seemed to rid the audio bug almost entirely. only time it ever creeped up was during loading screens into super congested areas (sharlayan, limsa, etc) only downside is audio will be low still but its way more manageable than loud and staticky. hoping this holds out til the fix

[Tessmarin]

i tried this and although i only got a few hours of playtime cause of maintenance, i went through a few dungeons, did some fates, tested on a dummy and it seemed to rid the audio bug almost entirely. only time it ever creeped up was during loading screens into super congested areas (sharlayan, limsa, etc) only downside is audio will be low still but its way more manageable than loud and staticky. hoping this holds out til the fix

Volume Settings: MV-100,BGM-10,SE-10,Voice-10,SS-10,AS-10,Perfomance-10.
Player effects volume: all 60
Equalizer: Standard

These sound settings are making it somewhat tolerable. Still bad though.

[ray_lunaria]

Seriously, 2 weeks for this fix? are you kidding me?

If they give us 2 weeks of free sub then its all fine. if not, then we have a problem

[Sekigawa321]

seriously, we have to wait till 6.01 for the fixes? i can't even continue msq because of this issue, the audio issue is really distracting me, especially for the cutscene and battle

[minopoki]

seriously, we have to wait till 6.01 for the fixes? i can't even continue msq because of this issue, the audio issue is really distracting me, especially for the cutscene and battle

I started this game when Shadowbringers was already out, and I passed the last 2 years completing old content so that I could catch up when the next expansion was out, and I was so excited to finally be on time when 6.0 was to come out, and that I would be able to do the new content when it was still new, that it would be a nice challenge to try the dungeons and trials when most players would still not know the fight and all.

But now, it seems I'll have to wait until next patch is out together with Pandaemonium, when people will be already at level 90, doing raids and extremes, and I'll just be behind as always, joining parties where all players already know the content, except for me, and all of that because of a stupid audio bug.

I mean, it's not like I have not been enjoying the game while being "late" for the contents, but I just think a new expansion release is a very special ocurrence, and that it would be a special experience, at least for me, being able to enjoy it when sharing with the whole community the feeling of playing new content.

All I can say is that this situation makes me sad...