Audio popping issue

[Sylaria]

Think I had a more mild case of this issue on friday. My sound effects disappeared during a frontline match and after that the music would also start crackling and popping. Atleast mine appears to function normally after a reboot of the game till something breaks the sound effects again. I suspect frontlines, hunt trains and alliance raids would break the audio quicker since there's so much going on relatively to normal gameplay.

[IckeDerTyp]

Same here!

[Gayel]

Same issues... unfortunately

[vlokai]

Adding my voice to the chorus. I am experiencing all of these stuttering, popping, and cut-out symptoms. It actually began for me on the Endwalker loading screen on launch day with the music stuttering. AS everyone else had said it is reduced when not in combat and more frequent when casting.

I am once again in the Endwalker waiting room as I refuse to experience anymore of Endwalker in this broken state. I will not be so dramatic to say my initial experience was ruined in the first introductory quest, but the experience was certainly diminished as my focus was on my janky sound and not the carefully crafted intro to Endwalker experience. I wish I could reset my MSQ back to zero before the first trip out so I can get a clean experience when this is resolved.

[LobsterFusion]

Definitely hope this gets fixed. I play with my volume down now and check it here and there to see how it is but it's still the same.

[TojiSuzuhara]

https://twitter.com/SOKENsquareenix/...20178749845504

i took it upon myself to tweet at soken late last night since i saw he was promoting the new spatial audio thing and he did respond! looks like they are definitely aware of it and working on fixing it. hope this helps in some way to know theyre at least acknowledge it.

[TaleraRistain]

https://twitter.com/SOKENsquareenix/...20178749845504

i took it upon myself to tweet at soken late last night since i saw he was promoting the new spatial audio thing and he did respond! looks like they are definitely aware of it and working on fixing it. hope this helps in some way to know theyre at least acknowledge it.

That does help because it was rather demoralizing not seeing it on the known issues list so we had no idea if a fix was even being considered. Thanks for that.

[AsheNabuddis]

Thank you for taking the time to put this twitter link in here. It certainly does calm some of my concerns considering it is aware by at least SOME people in Squeenix. I believe we will see a fix to it some time, but I hope it comes soon rather than later. Playing the game without any combat sounds is a heavy blow to it's quality.

[Crimson1128]

I've had a similar issue myself, *near* constant audio popping/lagging, with two notable exceptions; the audio seems to temporarily play as normal while either playing a footstep sfx or an ambient housing sfx (fireplace crackling, water fountain flowing, etc)

it's honestly the strangest thing, as i've never had issues like this before endwalker. stranger still is the fact that when i relocated my ffxiv install from my ssd to my hdd in an attempt to find a solution, it... actually somewhat worked, now only occuring occasionally, usually during combat... but downside is the far greater load times, and of course, the fact that although it's better, the issue still persists.

Edit: I've also seen a few other threads with similar issues, one of which suggested that a common cause may be systems using Realtek audio. Given that my desktop does as well, seems like that might be the culprit, as my laptop- while i despise trying to play ffxiv on such a small screen- has not had any audio issues whatsoever compared to my desktop.

[LobsterFusion]

https://twitter.com/SOKENsquareenix/...20178749845504

i took it upon myself to tweet at soken late last night since i saw he was promoting the new spatial audio thing and he did respond! looks like they are definitely aware of it and working on fixing it. hope this helps in some way to know theyre at least acknowledge it.

Thanks for posting this and sharing with us.