Audio popping issue

[XenophineEX]

Main take-aways I have seen are with AMD processors and realtek audio drivers.

As far as my mobo from msi (the 970) this is the latest update to my realtek driver.

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver
Version
6.0.1.8010
Release Date
2017-02-07
File Size
357.68 MB

btw downloading from msi means it is already done, as opposed to that other method of 40kb a sec

I will install my mobo driver again, and report here if by some chance of haleion it makes the sound stop stuttering

restarted the pc twice, but now is the true test on if it works (also have siren log in ques)

ehh not too bad only 25, used to be 1900

I will que duty roulette and test the sound.

(only up to Stormblood so my testing will be limited)

so the stuttering is still there, seems wholly attached to combat only. Mainly aoe, but anything involving a 4 combo is also affected. *sigh*

The system seems to be bottlenecking itself with sounds from different sources. Instead of using compression it is just letting every sound fly one on the other overlapping till we get stuttering. Reminds me of when I first started using fruity loops, a sound program for music, I didn't know what compression was then and I just let everything play at the same volume and I got the same results as what is going on in this game. I would hope we didn't inherit some newfound audio mixer that doesn't know how to to use compressors.

(what's a compressor you ask? It is the filter that allows things to be heard despite overbearing harmonics, they are also known as crunchers with heavier music, the idea being when a sound frequency hits a certain range it is "compressed" or lowered to fall in line with the set maximum of the other volumes. It makes it so that you can hear everything, rather than 1 thing.