Audio popping issue

[Puss_Kat]

i know i got low fps but it usually dont affect in game bgm or voices, the 08 patch quite lessen the issue but i in trial when the boss talking, they talk really slow as it my fps contributing to it, and i surely know its isn't an issue before shb, i don't expect sooner fix i just want them to acknowledge them for 6.1 perhaps

you have settings available to reduce to improve the framerate, make use of them, if you can't find a point where you can maintain 60fps in raids and trials your system is truly below the supportable requirements.

[Shinjo]

the ambient sound is 100% fixed, check your cpu tjmax and game play temperatures.

I have a 5900x, NH-D15 as a cooler and my temps are between 50~60°C (thats 122 too 140℉).
I dont get low fps (90~180fps), just popping an crackling especially in ambient heavy zones like Falcon Nest.
I'm 100% sure it has nothing to do my temps...

[Ecto478]

is ew really adding something heavy to it? T_T, because i remember doing eureka or dr or zadnor Fate, i only got 10 fps but sounds seems fine, bo crackling etc

[tenchi671]

I started to have the same issue on iMac after 6.08
Never had issues before. This is odd, it seems to be "fixed" but now new reports emerge from players who had no issue.

I'm playing on an M1 Mac Mini and the "crackling" audio problems started happening right after the 6.08 update for me as well. I can mute the BGM, but it's not the same if I do that.

[Larirawiel]

is ew really adding something heavy to it? T_T, because i remember doing eureka or dr or zadnor Fate, i only got 10 fps but sounds seems fine, bo crackling etc

Hey, it could be that your CPU overheats. Then it will be throttled down. There could be also another reason for this: Citrix. If you have installed it then uninstall it.

Cheers

[Fiel_Tana]

I'm playing on an M1 Mac Mini and the "crackling" audio problems started happening right after the 6.08 update for me as well. I can mute the BGM, but it's not the same if I do that.

Another Mac M1 user here with the same crackling audio issues. started with the patch this week.

Also have noticed other oddities like outdoor ambient sounds inside buildings, the inn room and grand company barracks, for example, now have birds, ocean waves etc.

While it's possible to mute the BGM (which is not ideal, the music is an amazing part of the experience), it does still crackle in the other channels, it's just less noticeable depending what audio is playing. For example in voiced cutscenes it was noticeable.

[Hydra2142]

My ambient sound does still doing popping sound .
The only way to fix it for me is to mute the ambient sound... then the problem is gone.
So... not fixed for everyone.

Same issue here, patch didn't fix the problem for me and i've tried multiple things like changing the audio to "CD quality" / drivers, unplugging controller and disabling dual sense etc.

Using a Threadripper 3970X / RTX 3090..

[miragedive]

Right. After endless fiddling and fidgeting with the settings, I think I may have found a temporarily fix/reduction. I tested this right in the middle of when the sound was stuttering literally every 5 seconds and had three clean minutes of sound on trial 2 + no stuttering in The Goblet or Radz-at-Han after. All of these fixes are necessary, I tried switching from FullScreen back to Borderless and the stuttering came back. This is assuming you've applied the fixes suggested in patch notes.

1. Switch to Fullscreen Display
2. Ensure that FPS is capped 1/1 or uncapped
3. Go to System Configuration -> Sound Settings -> Wireless Controller Settings, and set Speaker sounds to None. I reduced volume to 0 and muted for good measure.
4. If you use a gamepad/controller to play, either play wirelessly, or if you connect via cable, disable the controller as a sound device in your Windows settings. To do this, connect your controller, go to Sound Settings -> Device Properties -> Additional device properties -> On the General window, right at the bottom, change Device Usage to "Don't use this device (disable)"

This combination seems to work for me so far, but I'll feed back over the course of the coming few days if the issue comes back or if the issue remains fixed like this. At the moment I have my graphics reduced to mitigate, but if the fix holds I'll gradually increase. Note that this worked with a listening position of 50.

Feedback on this. It does mitigate the issue, significantly so, but it didn't get me through a full night of raid with my static and an 8 person Discord call running in the background. We were specifically doing P2S. At the start of the night on P1S it was fine, but as soon as we got into P2S the issue came back with a vengeance and I had to turn sound off to get through the raid. That said, the issue is still less than when it was before 6.08. You can try this for mitigation, but it's not a complete fix.

[eforsyt2]

I'm playing on an M1 Mac Mini and the "crackling" audio problems started happening right after the 6.08 update for me as well. I can mute the BGM, but it's not the same if I do that.

Same issues as well. I've been streaming Final Fantasy soundracks and only keeping on the sound effects in-game.

[Puss_Kat]

Same issue here, patch didn't fix the problem for me and i've tried multiple things like changing the audio to "CD quality" / drivers, unplugging controller and disabling dual sense etc.

Using a Threadripper 3970X / RTX 3090..

Threadrippers are not for gaming, especially since they do core-core communication across a pcie fabric.

use an affinity locker to keep the game using only the threads on CCD1 (first 8 threads), be aware that there is known stuttering issues with the entire threadripper range in ffxiv.

I have a 5900x, NH-D15 as a cooler and my temps are between 50~60°C (thats 122 too 140℉).
I dont get low fps (90~180fps), just popping an crackling especially in ambient heavy zones like Falcon Nest.
I'm 100% sure it has nothing to do my temps...

the only crackling im hearing in falcons nest is the expected crackle of burning wood in the torches around the aetheryte.