Audio popping issue

[Sarhina]

Pls read this article. It perfectly explains what is actually happening.
https://www.gsmarena.com/understandi...news-49490.php

It's pretty stupid, that we cannot play the game because some esoteric audiophile on the sound team felt like he needed to advocate for sound nobody can actually hear, and effectively strangle our drivers and CPUs to death, for "improvements" in sound that arent even audible for humans to begin with - cannot be heard on most equipment - and sounds like ass because the audio fed into it is not designed to be spatial.

ALL the complaints people have with FF14 audio, ARE side effects of the way audio is handled - and mentioned as "disadvantages" throughout this incredible article. Once you get a grasp on how this works, it's crystal clear what is happening, and that it has NOTHING to do with our hardware - and is ONLY because of the stupid effin embody thing.

So, something of a Luddite here, but wouldn't the solution be fairly simple, remove that from the code, or is it too interwoven with everything else?

[MoonstalkerZ]

So, something of a Luddite here, but wouldn't the solution be fairly simple, remove that from the code, or is it too interwoven with everything else?

I don't think there's any way of knowing without being able to read the code. From what little I understand of programming, things can get really tangled up, and removing one seemingly unrelated thing can mess up sixteen other things.

[Lagunow]

I don't think there's any way of knowing without being able to read the code. From what little I understand of programming, things can get really tangled up, and removing one seemingly unrelated thing can mess up sixteen other things.

The most painful part is the the fix can go from simply changing a boolean value to "we can't do anything about it because it would break everything else. And there is no way for us to actually know.