Audio popping issue

[minopoki]

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.

It's amazing how we try the fixes and at first it seems things got better, but as you keep playing, it soon goes back to being unbearable.
That's exactly what that suggestion and many others made for me.
Maybe slight improvement, but the next day, it's terrible again.

[TaleraRistain]

Yep, sound still screwed.

My sub is up in a couple days and I'm seriously considering cancelling it for the first time in 7 years until they fix whatever they broke.

[AsheStrachan]

Still choppy audio

[KnottySloth]

it feels like it got worse.

[AsheNabuddis]

I don't think this Hotfix addressed anything audio related, did it?

[FangsBrightclaw]

I don't think this Hotfix addressed anything audio related, did it?

Nope. I'm pretty sure it was just focused on putting extra power into the servers to up the number of people that could log in. We're pretty SOL for having clear sound.

[Muew19]

Okay this is ridiculous, uptill now I was getting this only in combat and not even in dungeons/trials, now its gone to all cutscenes and every now and then in open world.
Literally doing Praetorium as I write this and its happening in every cutscene.
Never had this happen before in Shadowbringers.
At first I thought my PC is bad and thats the reason, but its happening in freaking Praetorium of all places so thats obviously not the case.

[minopoki]

As I said in a earlier post, I opened a ticket on SE Support Center a few days ago, and they answered me by email today, although the website says they don't answer most of the tickets individually.

I took this opportunity to reply to them with an appeal for them to fix this bug in a hotfix as soon as possible instead of us having to wait until Patch 6.01 two weeks from now.
I linked to them close to 40 threads on Lodestone and Reddit of players reporting and discussing this issue (including this one), hoping that they'll see the seriousness of the situation.

Again, I suggest that everyone suffering from this issue, that has still not opened a ticket on SE Support Center, do this through the link below:
https://support.eu.square-enix.com/c...383&la=2&fty=2
As you will give them your PC specs, it should help them figuring out what might the causes of problem, and it also shall bring to their attention that there is great number of players in need of this fix.

[woopdescoop]

I submitted my bug report. Hopefully if we give them enough specs they'll be able to solve this faster.

[HeavenlyBrush]

The fact that we have to wait till patch when this is probably the most game ruining issue after server stuff is pretty ludicrous. Having to play through msq with these issues soured the experience a lot for me and i'm sure i'm not the only one.