Audio popping issue

[Nommers]

Another option could be this:
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...965cd4dd0ac3af

Set all audio devices to 16 Bit, 44100 Hz.

Maybe it will relieve the propably too small audio buffers of the game. And the sound quality downgrade should not be noticable because 16 Bit and 44100 Hz sample rate already exceeds the abilities of a human ear by far.


Cheers

Sorry, but this is the very first thing Square Enix told us to try several weeks ago, and as far as I know it didn't work for anyone.

There was another tweet from Soken yesterday promising that fixes will be included in "the next version." https://twitter.com/sokensquareenix/...792569867?s=21 I sincerely hope he doesn't mean 6.1 because that is months off. The post-6.05 Known Issues post on Lodestone mentioned that they wanted to have the two listed issues fixed by the weekend. One's already been fixed. Maybe there will be another patch today fixing the other one that also attempts to address the audio. I don't exactly have my hopes up but I guess we'll see.

EDIT: There's also been a post by a community rep over on the Japanese forums: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5797104

DeepL translation:

Hello, I've been working on this for a while.

Thank you very much for contacting us with detailed system information and reproducible conditions regarding sound-related problems.
Thank you very much for providing us with detailed information about your system and the conditions under which the problem occurred.

It took us a while to narrow down the conditions under which the problem could be reproduced, but thanks to your help, we were able to reproduce the symptoms.

The symptoms this time are
In the calculation process in the FFXIV game sound driver, there is a point where the adjustment of the number of digits is not performed correctly.
We have found that this is likely to be caused by the characteristics of some CPUs, which cannot keep up with the calculation process.
Although most of the affected CPUs are older than 10 years old, we have confirmed that some of the latest CPUs are also affected.

Based on the characteristics of these CPUs, we are continuing to investigate and fix the problem so that it can be handled normally.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we would like to release an additional fix after verifying the pattern for the next patch.
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we would like to release an additional fix after we have verified the pattern for the next patch, so please wait a little longer for the fix.

Together with Soken's tweet, this is very good news. The post immediately following this also mentions that FX series CPUs are a rarity in Japan. Given the apparent inconsistency in how the bug affects other hardware configurations I suppose it makes sense that the issue would take a long time to track down. I'm still praying for a Lodestone post so that we don't have to dig through twitter and filter forum posts through the language barrier. Still, here's hoping this is fixed sooner than later.

[ClaraKitty]

Sorry, but this is the very first thing Square Enix told us to try several weeks ago, and as far as I know it didn't work for anyone.

There was another tweet from Soken yesterday promising that fixes will be included in "the next version." https://twitter.com/sokensquareenix/...792569867?s=21 I sincerely hope he doesn't mean 6.1 because that is months off. The post-6.05 Known Issues post on Lodestone mentioned that they wanted to have the two listed issues fixed by the weekend. One's already been fixed. Maybe there will be another patch today fixing the other one that also attempts to address the audio. I don't exactly have my hopes up but I guess we'll see.

EDIT: There's also been a post by a community rep over on the Japanese forums: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5797104

DeepL translation:


Together with Soken's tweet, this is very good news. The post immediately following this also mentions that FX series CPUs are a rarity in Japan. Given the apparent inconsistency in how the bug affects other hardware configurations I suppose it makes sense that the issue would take a long time to track down. I'm still praying for a Lodestone post so that we don't have to dig through twitter and filter forum posts through the language barrier. Still, here's hoping this is fixed sooner than later.

Ah, this is wonderful to see! So they are addressing it!