Audio popping issue

[Sarhina]

Pls read this article. It perfectly explains what is actually happening.
https://www.gsmarena.com/understandi...news-49490.php

It's pretty stupid, that we cannot play the game because some esoteric audiophile on the sound team felt like he needed to advocate for sound nobody can actually hear, and effectively strangle our drivers and CPUs to death, for "improvements" in sound that arent even audible for humans to begin with - cannot be heard on most equipment - and sounds like ass because the audio fed into it is not designed to be spatial.

ALL the complaints people have with FF14 audio, ARE side effects of the way audio is handled - and mentioned as "disadvantages" throughout this incredible article. Once you get a grasp on how this works, it's crystal clear what is happening, and that it has NOTHING to do with our hardware - and is ONLY because of the stupid effin embody thing.

So, something of a Luddite here, but wouldn't the solution be fairly simple, remove that from the code, or is it too interwoven with everything else?

[MoonstalkerZ]

So, something of a Luddite here, but wouldn't the solution be fairly simple, remove that from the code, or is it too interwoven with everything else?

I don't think there's any way of knowing without being able to read the code. From what little I understand of programming, things can get really tangled up, and removing one seemingly unrelated thing can mess up sixteen other things.

[Ariel_Valmont]

So anyone else getting the in game response to the bug report through support desk where they politely try to blame your cpu being old and give you the same rundown of settings to adjust,
Then basically tell you to look into the forums because they might have the answer….

I mean they tell me to set the eq setting in game to normal…. Which doesn’t even exist (it’s standard I know I know). But get it right.

[Ariel_Valmont]

They also mentioned if the problem persists (which it does) that I should file another bug report, which I’m guessing will promptly be moved to duplicate bug reports….

[Muew19]

Honestly all these "your PC is outdated" comments are irritating and infuriating at best.
Game runs fine and it ran fine until the immersion thing was added to the game.
Audio was completely fine in benchmark since benchmark didn't have this audio things implemented even though its supposed to help you test out your PC for the expansion.
Remove the stupid immersion audio or add an option for players to play on legacy audio (pre-ednwalker/normal shadowbringer) option. Thats the fix for this issue that thousands of players have. Get on it Square.

[Sarhina]

Not as of yet, my CPU is 6-7 years old, which doesn't seem that old to me.
My GPU needs upgrading (whose doesn't at the moment), but is still in the minimum required range.

[Tsara]

Before I had an incredible amount of stuttering in every content expect around lvl 50 and below.
No matter what "solutions" I tried.

As a final desperate act I installed the Spatial Audio trial thing.
Since then it's fixed.

This is such a weird issue this game's having right now.

[GorthRedsteel]

Before I had an incredible amount of stuttering in every content expect around lvl 50 and below.
No matter what "solutions" I tried.

As a final desperate act I installed the Spatial Audio trial thing.
Since then it's fixed.

This is such a weird issue this game's having right now.

Have you been to The Rising Stones since? What CPU do you have?

[Maeklos]

Not as of yet, my CPU is 6-7 years old, which doesn't seem that old to me.
My GPU needs upgrading (whose doesn't at the moment), but is still in the minimum required range.

It's not that old, at least for your CPU. CPU technology peaked nearly 20 years ago. That's why you don't see advances in CPU speed (most CPUs are between 3-4 GHz). CPU technology basically plateaued because of heat - they can't get any faster without creating a heat buildup feedback loop which would eventually cook the chip. Until new technologies in materials and heat dissipation are innovated, this is pretty much it. Which is why motherboard technology has advanced to include multiple CPUs working in tandem.

This, combined with the fact that AMD FX-series, Ryzen, and Intel i7 chips have been solid and used for dozens of mid-range model computers for years means that they're one of the more prevalent CPUs for people who didn't want to dump $3k on a computer while still getting a decent machine. Even today, if you go to Amazon and browse through their computers that are ~$1500, the vast majority of them are *still* AMD FX-series, Ryzen 5 or 7, and Intel i7 cores.

[ClaraKitty]

I was doing the 2B raids last night and there was a lot of audio stuttering during the boss fights. Also any ShB FATEs were causing them too. So ShB content seems to cause them a lot.