Audio popping issue

[Vyriun]

Hey everyone, wanted to chime in with my experience although it is different than what a lot of you outlined, I wanted to post my fix just in case there are others that happen to be in my position as well. So I was experiencing similar audio (and sometimes visual) stuttering that a lot of people have outlined since Endwalker released. I tried lowering all settings, exiting all processes, switching the audio channel, etc etc. Nothing was working (except switching to DX9 did help a little, but not completely) until finally I found that switching the Power Plan of my desktop helped. (Can be searched via Power Options > Additional Power Options). It was originally on "Performance" and switching it to "Balance" fixed all of my issues for me.

Keep in mind, mine is probably more of a very specific case where it was on my end, and doesn't have anything to do with the sound bug that has been confirmed, but it has been reported that Windows 10 has an issue with these power plans and bottlenecking applications.

[Maeklos]

Hey everyone, wanted to chime in with my experience although it is different than what a lot of you outlined, I wanted to post my fix just in case there are others that happen to be in my position as well. So I was experiencing similar audio (and sometimes visual) stuttering that a lot of people have outlined since Endwalker released. I tried lowering all settings, exiting all processes, switching the audio channel, etc etc. Nothing was working (except switching to DX9 did help a little, but not completely) until finally I found that switching the Power Plan of my desktop helped. (Can be searched via Power Options > Additional Power Options). It was originally on "Performance" and switching it to "Balance" fixed all of my issues for me.

Keep in mind, mine is probably more of a very specific case where it was on my end, and doesn't have anything to do with the sound bug that has been confirmed, but it has been reported that Windows 10 has an issue with these power plans and bottlenecking applications.

Can confirm, changing power modes does *not* help with FX-related audio bugs.

[XenophineEX]

Yes, changing from "performance" to "balance" would actually make things worse, not better. I think they did many things at once and only fixated on the last one that brought results. I have noticed it is pretty much in tune with server congestion at this point. No stuttering before prime time, lots of it during.

As far as flooding the devs with bug reports, I'm gonna pass. It won't help. And if anything will slow things down. There is no way they aren't experiencing the same issues on a AMD machine.

As a caveat almost all of Stormblood has been stutter free. Heavensward was horrible.

I would also like to add I disabled all other player effects and sounds, the only ones I see are my own and the enemies.

And while we are talking about "sound" lets also discuss the amount of british invaders infiltrating my ears drums on all characters. Even the samurais are ol' british chaps having a spot o tea. Does no one over there not speak normal english? And the 2 twins... jesus christ... everytime they speak I want to choke them. I've never heard an accent make my blood boil but theirs does. Btw I am Irish.