Audio popping issue

[Hiromaniac]

Didn't read through all 36 pages, but throwing in my voice that I'm also having this issue. I have also tried all suggestions short of complete reinstall of the game. At first it was in most combat and especially when a large number of enemies were present. After 6.01 now I'm getting the stuttering moving around or even just standing idle. No associated performance issues outside audio stuttering and slowing.

[AeroXaia]

It has been reported by intel users as well, I wish people would stop saying it's an AMD thing. Even i7 has had it. I don't know why they're reported less, but it's not only AMD.

(And not only realtek, which some of us were previously suspecting. Sound blaster has also had it, and somebody tried buying a new sound card and had no luck.)

Edit: I tried disabling the "USB selective suspend" thing in power options, it also didn't fix it. DX9 makes it partially better but not fixed. Camera angle can definitely affect it (sometimes there's no good angle though).

[Jizu]

Kudos for everyone going all the way with trying everything to find a solution the user can use to fix the issue.

I'm sincerly in the believe now that it's nothing we can change, we have to wait for a reaction on SE's part.

I just wish I didn't, for the first time, buy a 3 Month sub in anticipation of EW...

[Orbek]

Oh yeah, this issue is really getting under my skin now.

The fact that they released a patch yesterday addressing sound problems but we still see lots and lots of posts from ppl having this issue (myself included) worries me.

Just like all the new trials, the raid fights have been bad on the sound bug, in particular the last fight which is so bad i can barely struggle to play it without sound completly desabled.

Its a massive bummer for me! I really enjoy the fights and music.

[Oakster]

I hoped against hope I would be able to find something, anything to fix this issue. I held out hope the first patch for Endwalker would iron the problem out, but it wound up being worse than before somehow.

I'd read that camera positioning has something to do with it, and having your camera "obscured" by models or particle effects exacerbates the issue. It sounded completely ridiculous, until I did a dungeon and a random particle effect spawn blocked my camera and caused the stuttering, staticy audio issues. I moved my camera out from behind it to find it relieved, then moved the camera back to find it started again.

A simple temporary workaround in theory, but in close quarters in any combat situation, especially as a tank, it's unfeasible most times to find a camera angle that stops it. I heard nothing but audio glitch for the entirety of a run of Eden last night.

At this point I'm forced to resign that this is a SquareEnix problem, and while I have no intention of demanding anyone upend their entire lives to solve it, I would love some acknowledgement that they know the issue exists and they're working on it.

Additional things I have tried to solve this problem:
-Adjusted my audio device Hz multiple times
-Muted Ambient Sounds
-Muted Performance sounds just in case that somehow worked
-Adjusted my listening position to be entirely character-focused (slider to 100)
-Muted BGM
-Played content in first person mode
-Attempted to play content from a top-down view

At best, I managed temporary reprieve through camera positioning, but not in a way that's feasible in every or even most situations.

[miragedive]

For the sake of comparison with everyone else, and just so nobody thinks their hardware is to blame, I just ran the benchmark on maximum settings and scored 10,653 (High). With the graphics settings I normally use in game, I scored 15,538 (Extremely High). By all accounts, my hardware is more than capable of running the game. It's genuinely frustrating, because it used to only be in cutscenes (which severely hindered my experience of the story but oh well), but now it significantly impacts raids and the associated FPS drop from the audio process spiking in CPU usage results in some very unwelcome issues in raids.

I really hope someone takes this seriously enough to give us a genuine fix or solution. I played XIV only hours before early access maintenance and it worked perfectly, even in a very very very crowded hunt train. If we don't hear about this over the coming couple of days (since I'm away from home), I'll do a full reinstall of FFXIV and report back with any changes that might result in.

[ShiroLialeth]

The audio stuttering became more frequent since patch 6.01, it's especially bad when playing as Dancer or Reaper.

Another problem that wasn't fixed at all for me is random pops of the "crowd chatter" ambience sound that you usually hear in the starting cities. I hear them everywhere, even when I'm completely alone. This also means that I don't hear the normal soundeffect while being in a city. Sometimes these pops last longer, that's the reason why I was able to hear where it is coming from. Turning off the ambience stops it.

[Au-ro]

Reducing the in game frame rate has stopped the frame rate shifts associated with the stuttering for me. The audio is still bad, but I don't fall to 5fpa as of now. Will update later if it changes. Gunna try some msq and try not to be disappointed.

[AluneTempest]

What's more frustrating about this whole situation is that this is totally a problem on square side, so we can't by themselves find a temporary solution to the problem.

Depend purely on square do her job is the most frustrating part

[Maeklos]

For kicks and giggles, I had two instances of FF14 running - my normal account and a Trial account I'd made a year or so ago. Both running at the same time, 60fps on whichever one I had pulled up at the moment. No lag, nothing. As per usual. (Previous to Endwalker, I was used to running FF14 plus another game like Bannerlord or Rimworld concurrently with zero issues and no fps drop.)

So, I go to the Rising Stones on my level 86 SGE and proceed to break the sound engine by spamming Dyskrasia. I break the sound engine by the second cast, getting stuttering and chopping.

Swap back over to my trial account. No sound issues at all.

Swap back to main account. Sound still broken to the point of BGM and ambient sound being choppy.