Audio popping issue

[Toanon]

I'm on AMD FX as well but someone else on one of these threads said they were on an I9.

The more I see about this the more I'm convinced this is an issue on Squeenix's side. Cause like, it isn't clear what's actually causing it. Fixes work for some people but not for others, the audio only stutters in certain situations and seems to get worse over time. I really think it's a simple matter of the sound engine being bugged for some people.

[TaleraRistain]

The more I see about this the more I'm convinced this is an issue on Squeenix's side. Cause like, it isn't clear what's actually causing it. Fixes work for some people but not for others, the audio only stutters in certain situations and seems to get worse over time. I really think it's a simple matter of the sound engine being bugged for some people.

Especially because if this were a hardware issue, why didn't it manifest with the benchmark? That's supposed to tell us if our hardware will have issues or not. I didn't get uber high on that or anything but I still got High and had no sound issues when it ran.

[Toanon]

Especially because if this were a hardware issue, why didn't it manifest with the benchmark? That's supposed to tell us if our hardware will have issues or not. I didn't get uber high on that or anything but I still got High and had no sound issues when it ran.

They prolly didn't implement the sound engine updates into the benchmark. Though if it is a hardware problem, it's more than likely a compatibility issue, which means it's still an issue on Squeenix's side.

[OmniusOmnium]

Also when I logged in today my sound was still bugged but it was a completely different sort of bug. For the past few days the issue has been choppy audio that cuts out in cut scenes and when many spell effects are going off at once, turning on the spatial surround thing somewhat alleviated that issue (it became intermittent rather than constant). But today the issue was that the sound just sounded seriously messed up, almost like I'm underwater or something, no bass and treble just washed out and distorted, and the weirdest thing is, turning the spatial surround OFF seemed to somewhat fix the issue this time. I have made no changes since I logged in yesterday to my PC or the game so it's weird to me that overnight my issue changed and the opposite suggested fix worked on it this time. So the issue itself doesn't even seem to be constant, different issues on different days just makes no sense to me. I really hope SE is making headway on it because we all just seem to be swimming around in circles attempting these suggested fixes that may or may not work and may work oppositely for different issues on different days. It's a real head scratcher if you ask me. lol