Audio popping issue

[Denji]

So I have discovered that if I have my second screen on, particularly if it is playing a video or taxing the GPU/CPU the stuttering will be much worse.

This isn't my experience. I've played bozja/zadnor with instances filled with the max number of people and only the "you won" music after a CE doesn't play, but then 4-player dungeons will have 90% of the audio messed up in some way. I (personally, of course. as this is only a supposition) think there's something else going on.

[minopoki]

my fear is they will not fix this problem in the next patch, because i have not seen them specify the problem that we are having.

That's what I am afraid of too.
I can already see they releasing the next patch with some random change to the audio driver in attempt to fix the issue, but it end up working only for a restricted number of lucky players…

[AsheStrachan]

I just would like to know about if they are planning on adding more free sub time,as I haven't been able to play since EW early access game out

[Wetton]

Same issue with the audio, i try it with the settings from AsheStrachan, when i got ingame after 5 hours.

[OneIlmPunch]

So my fix is defunct. Capping fps at 30 worked for a day or two, now the audio popping is back and it's even worse. The more players or monsters using spells/abilities the louder and more horrible the popping becomes. I've since put my fps cap back to 60 since it isn't working anymore.

[Darneltia]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced with sound issues on Final Fantasy XIV. We have compiled a list of current issues with the game including sound related ones here which might be related to the same problem (i.e. the sound driver for the game itself):

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d6d790145bcf41

We appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter and ask that you try again at a later time to see if the issue persists along with keeping an eye out on the Lodestone website when further updates will become available.

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support forums!

[AsheStrachan]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

We apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced with sound issues on Final Fantasy XIV. We have compiled a list of current issues with the game including sound related ones here which might be related to the same problem (i.e. the sound driver for the game itself):

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...d6d790145bcf41

We appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter and ask that you try again at a later time to see if the issue persists along with keeping an eye out on the Lodestone website when further updates will become available.

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support forums!

We finally got some info people!

[minopoki]

We have compiled a list of current issues with the game including sound related ones here which might be related to the same problem (i.e. the sound driver for the game itself):

Hello Darneltia, I'm not sure how much information the moderators have in regards to development issues, but if the problem is in the sound driver for the game itself, couldn't this problem be solved if it was only given us an option to switch drivers to an old version in which this error did not occur?
Just like we now have the option to switch from DirectX 11 to DirectX 9, couldn't they give us an option to switch from 6.0 sound driver to 5.5 sound driver?

[ashtheash]

It's been 10 days and nothing is being done.
This is what I have: Sound is crackling like crazy and I can only "hear" music and system sounds, all other is muted for some reason.
I tried every possible fix on my end that was ever mentioned here or on Reddit.
At that point I wasn't gonna let my sub run without playing so I soldiered on and it spoiled my experience.
I find it absolutely not acceptable to wait for the patch on the 21st to fix these issues, hotfixes exist for these specific cases.

[VaireAsani]

Reporting in again - issues are still the same for me. The latest thing I have tried is removing all audio devices and then rebooting, which didn't help either.