Audio popping issue

[Lagunow]

There's definitely different variations of it then. Ambient has a very noticeable effect for me, and limiting FPS does nothing. Once broken it used to stay broken, but unmuting ambient makes it recover like whatever's getting bogged down starts clearing up after the spell spam stops enough. It's like there's a meter that fills up and past a certain point starts distorting, and recovers when there's less going on, but some areas just do it even without any spells at all.

If wonder if different types are based on what CPU people have, but that sounds like a lot of work to gather the info. For reference:

SYSTEM_CPU AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
SYSTEM_CORE_NUM SYSTEM_CORE_LOGIC 8 SYSTEM_CORE_PHYSICS 4
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 270x
RAM: 16gb DDR3

Edit: To be clear, when I said CPU power I meant this option: https://i.ibb.co/X5cQJV2/cpu.png (Most people probably have it at 100% already unless they're on power saver or on a laptop.)

I'm also strongly suspecting that, while the problem is the same, there are several variants, since there is no shortage of fixes that only works for a few. Even then, I'm yet to hear a success case of a 100% fix. Most of them only fixes it partially or the glitch returns later on.

Curiously enough, though, I'm also using the the very same CPU as you(AMD FX-8350). It got me thinking if it might have nothing to do with AMD-FX after all, but rather with the possibly dated motherboards that support it.

[Vendi]

I'm also strongly suspecting that, while the problem is the same, there are several variants, since there is no shortage of fixes that only works for a few. Even then, I'm yet to hear a success case of a 100% fix. Most of them only fixes it partially or the glitch returns later on.

Curiously enough, though, I'm also using the the very same CPU as you(AMD FX-8350). It got me thinking if it might have nothing to do with AMD-FX after all, but rather with the possibly dated motherboards that support it.

Well some people can run the game no problem with an AMD Phemon X4 or 2, which probably also run on old motherboards (sometimes even the same ones). Considering that I also can play sometimes an hour or 2 before it breaks seems to show that is indeed a bug, which is specific to certain chip architectures. Now the questions what excatly causes it, I have no idea.

[Cornet]

Gosh, I was so baffled last night, after an isp issues induced break, logging in to find nothing I did stopped my audio from stuttering, particularly in combat. This was my first time back on since the patch.

I actually have encountered audio stuttering before Endwalker, but I run this game on a toaster, so I was never surprised. (I recall encountering it in a ShB dungeon where there was a waterfall/a lot of sounds at once... and I'd forgotten to close some things, was streaming and had Discord voice chat on. Hopping out of voice chat fixed it.)

Once in Endwalker, I noticed couple times audio struggling a bit with voice chat+game if I'd had to close and reopen the launcher a billion of times to beat the 2002, but that stopped being an issue.

Then last night, after downloading the patch, streaming (OBS), voice chat... went into a dungeon and OH the stuttering. Good lord. The fps seemed fine, from what I could see. The animations looked smooth to my eye, but it was like the audio slowed down and lagged/stuttered. I hopped outta voice chat, thinking that'd fix it, and it improved it a little, but not nearly enough. Did full reboot, the usual way to fix anything. Nope. Nothing else I've tried has done squat. Any time there's a bunch of sounds all at once, it's just ALL the stuttering. Frustrating when it was nothing like this before the patch.

My toaster is an AMD Athlon II quadcore with a GTX 670, still running Win 7. (The fact it runs the game as well as it does, even when streaming, is pretty miraculous, I know. lol) I'm so heavily in unsupported-ville, I rather doubt a bug report from me would taken with a grain of salt, but boy, I'm so glad to know I'm not going crazy and there is something up.