Audio popping issue

[Au-ro]

It seemed to have gotten better for me. Not back to normal, but better. I was able to turn graphics back up to high and it was great. I didn't start getting any audio issues until I went back to zone 5 to do msq. Once I brought listening position back to camera, then it started up again, if not as severe.

Ok So i lied in this post. Not really, but def jumped the gun. It's just as bad, but the triggers seem to be less consistent. before I could turn audio off and it would help tremendously. Not so anymore. And now ARR zones are really bad. before i would drop down to 1fps, then it would reset back to 80 fps and then cycle. Now it never resets its just cyles between crap and slightly worse crap.

[Elliah-Seraheart]

It's gotten a lot better this patch for me. I have not made any changes to my setup or any settings between 6.0 and 6.0.1, except disabling spatial audio.

Cutscene's have barely any crackling anymore - and for the first time ever, Inns and Baracks do not constantly pop anymore - just minor, occasional popping when menuing. Funnily enough, enabling spatial audio made it better pre 6.0.1 - now it's better without spatial audio enabled. I may actually start MSQing now.

Win10 10.0.19042
AMD FX 8320
GTX 1070 Ti (30.0.14.9709)
32 GB RAM DDR3
ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
Stereo Headphones at 44k 24 bit
Realtek HDA 6.0.9132.1
Listening Position: 100
Equalizer: Standard
Player Effects Volume: 100
Wireless Controller Setting: 0 + muted.
Immersive Spatial Audio: disabled (installed)

[ToastyKeen]

I wanted to report that the patch did not solve anything on my end, in fact it seemed to make things worse, I did reduce my bit rate like it said in the patch notes but that didn't help at all. Had to shift my listening position back to 100 but its still causing problems.

[LobsterFusion]

AMD Radeon R9 200/ HD 7900 Series
AMD FX - 8120 Eight - Core Processor
8 Gigs Ram

Motherboard
ASUTek Sabertooth 990FX

I bought this computer in 2012 when Mists of Pandaria came out. It has been very reliable for a long time and is only now starting to show its age. It played Metal Gear Solid V at Max settings without issues. When I bought Resident Evil 2 it definitely started to show its age but played it alright at Medium settings. I think ARR came out at about the same time I bought my computer so I don't see why it would have problems now all of a sudden.

I was thinking it got worse as well but I wasn't certain. If it did get it worse it's minimally so.

[Iplewhelmed]

I started having audio issues with the latest patch today after experiencing zero issues sinze launch, all I hear is a crackling noise (no ingame sound) on the startup screen right after the Square Enix logo, and then my game crashes to desktop without an error before I get to click on anything. It goes away by switching to directx9 in the launcher config, but when I actually log in on my character it has extremely low fps, stutters and crashes during intense player congregations like being in cities or hunt trains, rendering th egame nigh unplayable anyway.

[Twkyo]

I started having audio issues with the latest patch today after experiencing zero issues sinze launch, all I hear is a crackling noise (no ingame sound) on the startup screen right after the Square Enix logo, and then my game crashes to desktop without an error before I get to click on anything. It goes away by switching to directx9 in the launcher config, but when I actually log in on my character it has extremely low fps, stutters and crashes during intense player congregations like being in cities or hunt trains, rendering th egame nigh unplayable anyway.

Same here. I have:

Nvidia RTX 2070 SUPER
Intel i5-9600K CPU @ 3.7 Ghz
Windows 10 Home


All up to date drivers. Things were totally fine up until today's patch. Game is completely unplayable now. The title screen was physically painful to sit through. No settings adjustments seem to have helped things at all.

[miragedive]

At first it had improved for me, but now it’s back to how it was before if not worse. CPU is Intel i7 9750H and it stutters very badly in and out of cutscenes. Butchering my graphics settings used to help but not anymore.

[Caderyn]

Unfortunately still not fixed for me. Pushing volumes to 100 and listening position helps somewhat, but the thing I found that helped the most, and actually makes it go away completely is turning the camera to face my characters front. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, from the rear doing a fight crackle crackle crackle, spin camera to look at the back of the mob (very difficult to play properly) it goes away. I don't get it at all.

Some of the fixes i've seen help for a while or in some places, but then it comes back. This is depressing

[Tokavo]

Unfortunately still not fixed for me. Pushing volumes to 100 and listening position helps somewhat, but the thing I found that helped the most, and actually makes it go away completely is turning the camera to face my characters front. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, from the rear doing a fight crackle crackle crackle, spin camera to look at the back of the mob (very difficult to play properly) it goes away. I don't get it at all.

Some of the fixes i've seen help for a while or in some places, but then it comes back. This is depressing

The same thing
https://youtu.be/8vjpjAj9Guo

[Caderyn]

The same thing
https://youtu.be/8vjpjAj9Guo

Yes! This, exactly this. Its so bizarre.