Audio popping issue

[Breezelyn]

Just made my bug report. Please everyone make a report if you can.. including if you have a pc was that built within the last year or this current year. Prove that it's on SE's end.

[Kazemon15]

Everyone, please PLEASE submit a bug report, ESPECIALLY if you have a newer computer or are on console. Be specific what hardware you use. If you go to Config in the FFXIV launcher, and click 'display' next to System Information, it provides your system info, all ready for copy and paste, you don't have to look everything up yourself. We can't let Square Enix brush this under the rug as something that only happens to 10 year old computers.

Thank you, I was wondering how people were doing this. I will do it and make a report bug as well.

[EvilKiwi]

Submitted a report ... Started to have the problems in cutscenes now and I am severely annoyed and frustrated.

[Maeklos]

The FX-8350, which multiple people here have posted they have (and also which I have) was released in October 2012. It is not limited to CPUs in double-digit age.

Yeah. It's a chipset that can *still* be found on $1k computers on Amazon and elsewhere. I bought my computer brand new 4 years ago and it's got FX-8350s in it, simply because they're solid chips. With my 1070 Ti, I can run every game I've played in at least High settings, if not Ultra or equivalent. So, blaming sound issues on "old hardware" is kind of a subversive take on SE's part. Perhaps more appropriate would have been to say "hardware we hadn't tested on" or something.

[Lagunow]

Yeah. It's a chipset that can *still* be found on $1k computers on Amazon and elsewhere. I bought my computer brand new 4 years ago and it's got FX-8350s in it, simply because they're solid chips. With my 1070 Ti, I can run every game I've played in at least High settings, if not Ultra or equivalent. So, blaming sound issues on "old hardware" is kind of a subversive take on SE's part. Perhaps more appropriate would have been to say "hardware we hadn't tested on" or something.

Indeed. FX-8350 is still pretty fine for a lower/mid-budget PC.

Since they've implied that we're trying to run the game on a toaster, I did a requirement check on system requirements lab, and found that FX-8350 is actually above not only "minimum requirements", but the "recommend requirements" as well. I recommend everyone does it as well, so we have proof it's not a "we're trying to run the game on a toaster" issue.

[MiaShino]

For anyone running on older hardware, do not feel bad or pressured to upgrade because of this peculiar issue.

Despite highly specific shortcomings the FX series, especially FX-8350 is more then capable of running FF14 or most anything provided you are not attempting to push 120+ Hertz.

These older cpus are actually significantly more powerful then what you shall find in the PS4 and even PS4 Pro. I am confident enough in stating this that am willing to bet you could achieve stable frame rates on a Core2Quad. You should never experience severe stuttering even when frame rate is unstable, that is purpose of buffering audio. Extensive work goes into insuring this from myriad of developers working on emulators ranging from Dolphin to Dosbox to PCem...

Example; Partner achieves stable frame rate (60 fps) on one old Phenom II x2 with two unlocked cores. Yes this was thing, old non quad core Phenom processors can have cores unlocked turning dual core into quad core. Fun times! My partner does not suffer from audio stuttering.

[Lagunow]

I was planning to upgrade my PC when the semiconductor crisis is solved.

Nowadays I only play FFXIV and a few indie games on PC, so I'm no particular hurry to upgrade. FFXIV always ran so smooth at 60 fps until 5.5 and it still does.

When they announced the spatial audio plugin I had no idea it would require them to upgrade the sound engine in such a way that my current setup could no longer support.

[GorthRedsteel]

Update on Immerse Gamepack: If you installed ANY version of the Immerse Gamepack by Embody, please install their latest version released today here - I just installed it and seems to be working fine so far. No audio issues or directx 11 crashes with weird sounds. If you still get stuttering/crashes/audio issues and already tried changing the performance settings to "Background Services", please try changing it back to "Programs" and see how it goes with this new release build.

I'll reply again whenever I get another audio issue or directx crash.

If it doesn't work for you, reply to Embody's twitter here - they're not square enix, so they're not actively reading the forums, and I think they were responsible for these issues. Let them know how it goes.

If you never installed any audio pack, and still get audio issues/crashes, try installing the immerse gamepack. There's a free trial going on, and it "might" solve the problem for you.

Also don't forget to lower your sample rate to CD quality just because.

Doesn't work for me. I'm such a retard honestly. I keep failing for these fixes and wasting my time, when I know nothing is gonna change until devs themselves put some work into it.
Don't worry guys! I'm sure they are gonna look into it after asking you to submit information even though there are pages upon pages of that already. 2 more weeks... to get disappointed again lel.

[AluneTempest]

Doesn't work for me. I'm such a retard honestly. I keep failing for these fixes and wasting my time, when I know nothing is gonna change until devs themselves put some work into it.
Don't worry guys! I'm sure they are gonna look into it after asking you to submit information even though there are pages upon pages of that already. 2 more weeks... to get disappointed again lel.

Relax, they will wait for some player to perform a miracle and solve the problem and then apologize and implement in the game, just as they did with the error 2002 in which they insisted at all costs that the problem was in our connection until someone proves otherwise

[Grimno]

Indeed. FX-8350 is still pretty fine for a lower/mid-budget PC.

Since they've implied that we're trying to run the game on a toaster, I did a requirement check on system requirements lab, and found that FX-8350 is actually above not only "minimum requirements", but the "recommend requirements" as well. I recommend everyone does it as well, so we have proof it's not a "we're trying to run the game on a toaster" issue.

I myself am using a FX 8320 which from what I see is only "slightly" lower then the FX 8350 (About 6%) so if that 8350 is above recommend requirements, mine should absolutely be okay then.