Audio popping issue

[Toanon]

Well SE is aware of the issue and actively working on it, it's obviously a major set of issues that is going to take time and require a client side patch to fix so demanding a solution is kind of pointless at this stage. Game releases have bugs, fact of life, the fact this one only effects a small portion of people makes it even harder to troubleshoot and fix. No point getting too salty about it.

To those who are complaining that this has ruined the MSQ experience for them, I ask you why the hell did you continue to play the MSQ knowing full well you had the issue?? Why not just wait for a fix? It's sad not being able to play but I'm not going to ruin my favourite game for the sake of being impatient.

I'd probably be more mad about this if everyone else wasn't also behind on Endwalker cause of the queue times.
Even when the patch and the raid drops there'll be people still getting through the MSQ. It'll be fine.

[TaleraRistain]

To those who are complaining that this has ruined the MSQ experience for them, I ask you why the hell did you continue to play the MSQ knowing full well you had the issue?? Why not just wait for a fix? It's sad not being able to play but I'm not going to ruin my favourite game for the sake of being impatient.

I've got a few reasons

- I'm trying to see if I can do non-combat stuff and just deal with it through the cutscenes and maybe a dungeon if the sound is behaving since mine is sporadic
- I'm only on vacation this week
- I've been looking forward to this story for months
- I've already had spoilers from friends who couldn't keep their mouths shut

So it's oversimplifying to try to sum up reasons as merely "impatient"

[GrimmStronghammer]

I have had limited success by adding the 3d audio pack (free trial). It now only happens at load times between zones and during short moments in fights, usually at times with extra effects audio (boss ult or similar)
I'll add my specs to help with the data
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 290
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
OS: Windows 10 64bit (up to date)
Audio driver: Realtek HD Audio

[FangsBrightclaw]

To those who are complaining that this has ruined the MSQ experience for them, I ask you why the hell did you continue to play the MSQ knowing full well you had the issue?? Why not just wait for a fix? It's sad not being able to play but I'm not going to ruin my favourite game for the sake of being impatient.

That's a bit of an unreasonable ask when waiting until the 21st would prevent us from gathering mats, getting gear ready for the raid tier, would make us pretty much have to go radio silent for a solid 3 weeks to avoid talkative friends, etc. Plus, not ever zone is as bad as the 3rd one in terms of how it handles cutscenes. There will be a few hours where I wonder why I complained so much about the minimal popping and stuttering. Though, usually right after I think that, something happens that makes me recall why this is a huge issue. A gracious friend of mine actually has been streaming dungeon music to me while I've been going through those muted (as it's worse in combat), which I appreciate.

I guess what I'm saying is we're stuck between a rock and a hard place on what will ruin the experience more. This whole expansion launch is already really tainted for me due to this. I'd rather accept my loss at this point and make do with what tools I have to prevent it from being worse.

[ToastyKeen]

Well To those who are complaining that this has ruined the MSQ experience for them, I ask you why the hell did you continue to play the MSQ knowing full well you had the issue?? Why not just wait for a fix? It's sad not being able to play but I'm not going to ruin my favourite game for the sake of being impatient.

Bit of a loaded question to be honest.

We've been waiting for the expansion for around 10 months, it's been hyped up to all hell, it's the final chapter in a long long story, and people want to be current with the stoyr so that they can talk about it with their friends. Honestly I'm not upset that sound issues exist, it's frustrating for sure, it sort of cheapens the experience when music is such a strong part of the games personality and having it marred by sound issues is deeply frustrating when you just want to hear it at it's best, like it's meant to be heard. But all that aside I'm not going to stop the story just because the audio is popping or choppy, I'm not going to sit on my hands and wait any longer to play new content in the game that I love. If the game audio is buggy at launch that is something I can accept.

That doesn't mean I can't complain about it though, make my issue with the bugs known. I feel like my experience is cheapened, but it's certainly not lost.

[Elliah-Seraheart]

Just curious... How many of you having audio issues HAVNT overclocked their FX Series CPU?

Its eerie how many of us are running an AMD FX "Bulldozer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldo...roarchitecture).
Any time I post my CPU anywhere online for tech support, or when I got some IRL help after my motherboard died, I get someone commenting on my "Bulldozer". Apparently this series is freakishly powerful for its time - but produces a metric gigaton of heat and is super NOT energy efficient.

In other words, I'm sure I'm far from the only one in this thread who doesnt have to turn on their heater in the winter.

Looks like we all got Asus Boards cause it allows for AM3+ to go along with a Nvidia GTX 10xx Ti. Anyway...

CPU: AMD FX-8320
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro R2.0

[ray_lunaria]

Changing to Directx 9.0 and locking the framerate to 37 improved quite a bit for me. I'm getting way less audio stuterrings except for some moments during battles. Not happening on cutscenes anymore.

But now the game runs like crap lol 37 fps locked but when i enter in crowded towns it goes down to 20fps. But hey, atleast i can play the story lol

Oh and my game crashed once with directx 9.0

[ClarkCiccero]

I have the same issue here, Directx12, did everything and the sound is cracking a lot. Thank god is the game, and not in my end.

[minopoki]

I'm curious, is someone who plays on SSD suffering from this issue?
I have an SSD on my PC but it was so full that I installed this game on a HD, and I've playing from the HD the past two years.
I'm considering formating the partition in which I have Linux installed on my SSD, just to use it for Final Fantasy XIV. It would sure help with loading times, but would there be any possibility of it helping with the stuttering issue too?

Just curious... How many of you having audio issues HAVNT overclocked their FX Series CPU?

As for this matter: no, I have not overclocked my CPU.
I've already posted my specs before, but here it goes again:

CPU: AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core Processor
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280
Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

[AsheStrachan]

Still unplayable with this audio problems