Audio popping issue

[Teiren]

So more interesting results, all with these settings: Listening Position 62, Party Effects-Limited, Others Effects-None, Object Quantity-Low.

I got zero audio stuttering at all in the first three floors of the new raid. Then in the fourth floor, I got the normal amount; changing Listening Position to 100 reduced its frequency greatly but did not eliminate it 100%, just like what happens in other duties that have stuttering. The stuttering in the fourth floor didn't seem to coincide with any special skills or events either. Hell, it happened even while the boss was only casting a simple raidwide attack with no special floor effects active or anything. Perhaps healers and others were casting several reduction abilities that I couldn't see because of Limited Party Effects, although you can still HEAR those effects, so I'm not sure if that setting is really doing anything, but it felt like it might have had an effect in Alliance Raids.

I really am at a loss here. It's like there's almost no consistency. It's crazy that it varies so much not only between people but for a single person as well.

[AeroXaia]

TL;DR if you havent cleaned your computer in years, try vacuuming the dust out, it might help?? There's definitely still an issue on their end because I get the occasional stutter but this alleviated like 90% of the instances

Dust can cause ton of heat (took me a while to learn this), and heat can cause thermal throttling (CPU slowing down to not overheat). Throttling seems to greatly affect this issue, more than it affects other things by far. Like you're saying, there's definitely something wrong, and while CPU throttling can slow everything down, it has a dramatically larger effect on the sound it seems - because something is wrong.

I really am at a loss here. It's like there's almost no consistency. It's crazy that it varies so much not only between people but for a single person as well.

Yeah, it's really inconsistent, and I think that's why there's so many times people think it's better and then it "breaks again" - because it was never better, it's just intermittent sometimes. It comes and goes seemingly randomly.

Turning the visuals for party and self effects had no effect for me when I was testing in the inn, where it was very, very consistent and I was taking the video in my bug report. I didn't get that part in the video, but I did play with it a lot. I have macros to adjust the effects in 4 different ways, 3 of which I normally use anyways, and one for turning even self effects off that I made just to test. Even with nothing visible, they had the same stuttering effect.

I did briefly show the object quantity, and I think just left it on minimum, just to show it really did nothing at all too. It might be different with different setups though, since a couple things people said worked did nothing for me.

It took more casts of Dyskrasia to break the sound (8), but it still broke. I've taken to logging out in the Rising Stones, just to make testing iterations easier.

Is that consistent? I mean, if you relog and do the same thing like 4-5 times, do you get the same results with the same settings? It seems like 7 or 8 might just be from randomness.

[Maeklos]

Is that consistent? I mean, if you relog and do the same thing like 4-5 times, do you get the same results with the same settings? It seems like 7 or 8 might just be from randomness.

Breaking the sound engine without tinkering with any settings is consistent (usually taking 2-3 casts to break it). So anything that pushes it that far back is an anomaly.