This issue has only cropped up for me recently and I found this thread stretches back...quite awhile. And the new patch has not alleviated it. Extra frustratingly, half my attempts to find a workaround/troubleshoot with sound settings in windows requires a full restart of the XIV client, because the audio just stops.

Is there anyone with more technical insight into how XIV coded their audio setup to explain why it's the only program I ever installed that simply disables all audio if you change a single windows setting related to audio, even if not changing the audio source?