Audio popping issue

[Baekho]

Just adding onto the pile: I've also been having severe audio issues ever since EW early acces... Sometimes the game runs and sounds fine, sometimes it runs fine but the audio stutters and occasionally both the performance and sound are completely down the drain... Since installing the Spacial Audio trial the performance issues have either disappeared or just become extremely rare and while the audio stutter seems to have gotten better, it still happens rather frequently...

It's just so puzzling to me because the timing seems to be completely random. I've seen claims that it happens mostly whenever the game has to process too many sounds at once, but, most of the time Alliance Raids are completely fine for me. Then I load into a remote instance where literally no one is around and the game sounds like it's about to crash.

I think the weirdest issue I had was when I was in the Grand Company barracks... game sounded completely fine until I clicked on the message board where you can check on your squad, at which point the sound starts stuttering until I closed the menu. Thought it was just an odd coincidence so I tried it again a couple times and yeah, the cracking/stuttering would literally start and stop in unison with the menu opening and closing. While I was literally just standing there. I wasn't able to replicate it ever since I logged out and just in general it seems like the areas where I'm experiencing sound issues are completely randomized with each session... I just don't get it, how could that be a trigger for this issue?

It's so frustrating because the game ran smooth like butter prior to EW. Never dipped below 60 fps even in the busiest of fights... and now I can't even complete the story because the atmosphere is completely ruined by these sound issues. I'm kinda worried that this is a low priority issue for them since while there are a large amount of clicks on here, the vast majority of players don't seem to be having this issue... :/

Not gonna go full on doom mode just yet and am still hopefull it's gonna be fixed, but I'd be devastated if the next patch rolled around and I'd have to rush through the MSQ with these audio issues...