Audio popping issue

[Teiren]

I'm happy, and confused, to say that I got absolutely zero stuttering in the first duty of the new raid. This was with Listening Position at 62, Party Effects at Limited, Others Effects at None, and Object Quantity at Low. Oh, as for my CPU temperature, from what I recall, it never goes above maybe 72 Celsius, usually around 60 while playing. I was worried the stuttering was ruining my computer, but it probably isn't.

[Rannzyr]

I've found all the new classes with super aoe seem to trigger sound stuttering. You would be hard pressed to find a tank that only does 3 at a time. 100% of the ones I have encountered even with 2 dragoons with limited aoe, run about gathering half the dungeon only to then have the sound cut out horribly. And then have the fight take 4x longer than it should.

Too many WoW refugee's, they are adopting their old methods in a new game; And it is breaking it.

Don't even try to tell them to slow down either, the tank will proclaim he is the only dps needed. And you will forfeit your commendations. Just stay silent, and deal with the fallout.

With all due respect your subjective opinion doesn't really matter.

Wow refugees are not causing this issue, rushed implementation of a flawed sound engine is.

Square enix are 100% responsible for this and your shouldn't try to place blame on players you personally dislike. We can only wait and hope this gets sorted but it probably won't any time soon because it's not an easy fix.

Well, it could be if they bothered to actually let us toggle it but the new deal must have been good

[Mousezilla]

I'm at that one level 88 quest in zone one (the one with the crying, you know what I'm talking about) and I have to put a pin in the MSQ until this issue gets resolved. Not only is Soken's music too good to turn off, but I rely a lot on sound queues for fights, which is unfortunately where the stuttering issue is the absolute worst. I can work on crafting and gathering and older content, but I can't do any roulettes that put me in the new content where I'm not familiar enough to manage without the sounds, or risk the glitch deciding to branch out into the voiced cutscenes. Like everyone else here, I didn't have this issue prior to 6.0, and it became impossible to ignore after 6.01 dropped.

You guys know I love and appreciate your hard work, and I've come to the forums to complain maybe twice in the... dear god, 8 years? Jesus. The probably-way-too-long time I've been playing. But this third-party sound software was a frankly iffy idea that maybe should have waited to be implemented sometime not during a huge launch when you would have had more eyes and hands free to catch this before it went FUBAR.

[Breezelyn]

Catching up on reading the thread, I decided to try what Maeklos did, because I rely on audio cues as well for boss fights. Including when I usually run heals, the audio cue for the big stack markers gets me ready for big heals. It's not much better, but... ugh. The audio stuttering has given me a migraine I can't get rid of. I'm on day 3 of having it, and it's NOT fun over the holidays. I took a break from the game most of the last night.

I just wish their damn sound engine was tested BEFORE they put it into the game. The benchmark would have been the best option to do it with. I just feel a bit duped with the game currently. I paid 40 USD for the expansion, then 15 USD a month (plus extra retainers on top of that). Just to have this game-breaking, audio stutter persisting to who-knows-when making it hard to actually do much. I'm just tired of getting headaches and migraines from something they could prevented. You know, TESTED before they released it into the actual game, and now, players/customers are paying for the consequences...literally.

Before anyone gets on me about this: We are paying real life money to play this game. It's NOT F2P where you can play without having to buy/pay for a cent to have access to said game. I love this game-- I want to be happy playing it. I've been with this mmo for a long while. Just this audio stutter is starting to affect me in real life at this point. If it's not fixed by next month before Savage, I don't know what I'm going to do.

[MoonstalkerZ]

I did some testing with the equalizer bars and crafting while facing away from the camera, which fairly reliably produces the audio stuttering. I've posted my results in my bug thread here.

I've also been reading through the bug reports posted on these forums. Someone said a few pages ago they knew someone with a Phenom CPU had no stuttering issues, and speculated that Phenom CPUs wouldn't cause this problem - however, this bug report indicates a user with a Phenom CPU is having the stuttering bug. So now we're up to FX, Ryzen, Phenom, and i7 CPUs having this problem, as well as (anecdotally) consoles - however this last only comes from something a forum poster reported reading in shout chat. If we could get someone on the forum with a PS4 or PS5 to confirm they have the stuttering bug, this would be a great help.

It's entirely possible that one source of the problem is something that happens with the CPU, but if it's happening with every type of CPU, then just getting a new CPU isn't going to fix the problem.

[MediArgentum]

So now we're up to FX, Ryzen, Phenom, and i7 CPUs having this problem

Might as well add AMD APU series there too, as this sound stuttering problem won't go away for me either, no matter which of the proposed solutions I try, and I have AMD APU A8-5500. Also reported here.

[Breezelyn]

I did some testing with the equalizer bars and crafting while facing away from the camera, which fairly reliably produces the audio stuttering. I've posted my results in my bug thread here.

I've also been reading through the bug reports posted on these forums. Someone said a few pages ago they knew someone with a Phenom CPU had no stuttering issues, and speculated that Phenom CPUs wouldn't cause this problem - however, this bug report indicates a user with a Phenom CPU is having the stuttering bug. So now we're up to FX, Ryzen, Phenom, and i7 CPUs having this problem, as well as (anecdotally) consoles - however this last only comes from something a forum poster reported reading in shout chat. If we could get someone on the forum with a PS4 or PS5 to confirm they have the stuttering bug, this would be a great help.

It's entirely possible that one source of the problem is something that happens with the CPU, but if it's happening with every type of CPU, then just getting a new CPU isn't going to fix the problem.

I haven't found videos on PS4/PS5 stutter, however, I did find some evidence of some twitter users (who play on console) with it. This was back on December 5th, so unsure if it has been fixed or not for them. Possibly not, because of pc users having issues yet.
https://twitter.com/RaijinOkami/stat...91769109651464

[Grimno]

Trying out the Spatial Audio Pack and it feels like it just hates bass.
Doing ocean fishing, and there's no crackling with it on sure...
But once it gets to the result screen, and it starts showing all the Bonuses for fishing (+10% +20% etc) and hits in that series of WHUMPS with each one, it freaks out and stutters/statics/slows down

[Kyocchi]

I've noticed the stuttering doesn't happen at the First and Second Circle of the new raids for me. It comes back at the Third Circle and becomes unbearable at the Fourth.

Also, it's probably not related to this issue, but in System Configuration > Sound Settings there's an option called "Play sounds when window is not active". I only have it set to play System Sounds and yet, when duty queue pops I can hear the game's BGM with every "tick" sound the queue window does, as if both types of sounds were integrated to each other. This didn't happen before 6.0.

[DrGirlfriend]

I've noticed the stuttering doesn't happen at the First and Second Circle of the new raids for me. It comes back at the Third Circle and becomes unbearable at the Fourth.

I had the exact same experience.