Audio popping issue

[megamino]

to be fair, they could just post an announcement on the lodestone for that, but i guess they dont want bad press on their homepage since they push all these new shiny "audio tools"

Iam happy that its getting fixed now so i dont rly care.

Yeah, i got the sense of why they are handling this on forum instead of lodestone... they might don't want to have bad press with their third party sound tools since this problem arise when they integrate it with the third party... But, so far FF14 devs all about transparency but might be wrong on couple of situations. It's a company nonetheless and they can do this knowing the risk of bad publicity on some players

Does anyone know if FFXIV on Windows can take exclusive control of the soundcard? Has anyone tried and tested to check that box in sound card properties?

I know there's a fix coming, but I'm just wondering if this could be fixed for Windows users ahead of time already, as it is for Linux users

OOT a bit but i kinda wonder how to play this on linux... but that's on another topic..

[Puss_Kat]

Does anyone know if FFXIV on Windows can take exclusive control of the soundcard? Has anyone tried and tested to check that box in sound card properties?

I know there's a fix coming, but I'm just wondering if this could be fixed for Windows users ahead of time already, as it is for Linux users

it opens a shared session only.

[rainichan]

Both Soken and the Japanese rep mentioned the next patch. As far as know there aren't fixed dates for the next patches yet (as there were for 6.01 and 6.05), there being just the information that 6.1 is gonna be out before the end of the first quarter (so, by the end of March, probably).

For those who have been here at the beginning of other expansions, is there a chance of being an extra patch before 6.1 (like a 6.08 or something)?
Or for all other expansions, has it always been X.01, X.05 and then X.1?

Historically there have been more than just the initial .01 and .05 patches - ShB had a 5.08, SB had 4.06 and 4.06a, HW had 3.07, and though it's been like 8.5 years, I'm pretty sure 2.0 had some fix patches (they aren't listed on their patch archives) so an extra fix patch at the end of this month/sometime next month isn't out of the realm of possibilities. For the record, 5.05 and 5.08 were about a month apart, 4.05 and 4.06 were 20 days, 3.05 and 3.07 were 34 days. So, about ~1month or so, I would wager, unless they push a fix out quicker. I hope it's quicker with a hotfix tbh, since I've had all the problems documented in here and it really decreased how the final EW fight and subsequent cutscenes played out for me :/ no one else should have that issue when they get there.

EDIT: There was a JP Radio Mog Station that had Yoshi-P on to talk about some things in terms of 6.0 and some technical things about what the 6.0 patch brought. One of the things translated by the FFXIV discord was, with emphasis mine:

"・侍や黒のようなピュアDPSはちょっとケチりすぎたかなと思っているので6.08で調整する
Pure Firepower jobs like SAM and BLM will have DPS buff since the devs do think they were a bit stingy on them. It will be for 6.08"

Hopefully the audio fixes will be in 6.08 with some other job adjustments!

[RicaRuin]

There still is the issue with Floor 2 of the current Savage and Shields, so we have another Hotfix scheduled sometime.

[Au-ro]

I have found that when the stuttering and lag are at its worst, if I hit the windows key, the game will still be up when the start menu pops up. I can still see the game, but it's kinda of in the background. Letting it sit like this for a few seconds fixes the issue 80% of the time.

[thesm1l3y]

I have found that when the stuttering and lag are at its worst, if I hit the windows key, the game will still be up when the start menu pops up. I can still see the game, but it's kinda of in the background. Letting it sit like this for a few seconds fixes the issue 80% of the time.

How long does it take for the stuttering to appear again after that?

[Kenneth34250]

My rig is a newly built 12900KF with 3090 and SN850 PCI-E 4.0 SSD. 95% time my sound is fine but sometimes I got 1-2 sec stutters in town when a lot of players on the same screen. I noticed even my overall CPU usage is constantly below 20%, one thread spike to over 80% sometimes and the audio stutter may occur when that happens.

I guess the new sound engine does some complex calculation for positioning audio and it is a single thread design, that may explain why older CPUs have more often stutters if the sound engine heavily/fully load a thread/core.

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

Thanks again to everyone who submitted detailed information regarding the ongoing sound-related issue. Rest assured, the bug reports that were moved to the Duplicate Bug section have been also passed down and have been helpful in our investigation.

While it has taken some time to narrow down the conditions of the issue, we were able to reproduce it on our end.

We discovered an anomaly in the calculation process within FFXIV's game sound driver where the number of digits is not being adjusted correctly. Due to this, some CPUs with certain characteristics are unable to keep up with the calculation processes and have a high possibility of encountering the issue.

As mentioned previously, we noticed this primarily occurs on older CPU models that are around 10 years old, but have also confirmed cases on some of the latest CPU models.

We are continuing to investigate the matter and are working on a resolution to ensure that CPUs with these characteristics will be able to handle these processes correctly. Our current plans are to conduct pattern tests and release an additional fix in the next patch.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work towards resolving this issue.

[AurelGuthrie]

Our current plans are to conduct pattern tests and release an additional fix in the next patch.

Thank you for addressing the issue.

When you say next patch, are we talking about a hotfix, an emergency patch (6.06), or 6.1?

[Nuki]

Our current plans are to conduct pattern tests and release an additional fix in the next patch.

thank god!
I also hope its a hotfix patch and not 6.1 that is ~2 month away.