Ingame Sound/Music extrem stuttering in battles

[HyoMinPark]

Just chiming in to say I’ve been dealing with this a lot the past week. It was particularly bad during Early Access, but lightened up some afterwards. However, this week, the audio stuttering is terrible. And there are additional effects to it when it happens to me: the audio cuts out (except for the BGM), animations delay/stop entirely, there’s no combat sounds at all from skills or even just character voices, and then mechanic visuals and damage won’t actually proc on my end until the sound resumes. It’s been so distracting and annoying trying to prog Savage as a healer, and have the damage register about 5 seconds after the mechanic has already gone out.

I’ve checked my VPN—there’s no packet loss involved. It doesn’t seem to resolve itself between logins. Sometimes I’ll go several hours without a problem only to have this stuttering flare up without warning in a given instance. Checked my PC, and it doesn’t seem overly heated or have anything in the background that might be causing throttling of any kind.

Whatever is causing this, I sure hope there’s a fix soon. Because it’s terrible.

EDIT: Also acknowledging that my PC is not that old. It’s definitely not using parts that are nearly a decade in age.

[Niali]

Patch 6.08 completely resolved the issue for me - and it was bad before; I couldn't play without getting headaches unless I turned off the sound, which is a terrible thing to have to do to such beautiful work.

[veeika]

Weirdly enough I haven't had sound issues and started to have them now, after the 6.08 patch. Is anybody else having this?

[CelestiaWinter]

I had audio popping, stuttering, in game sound cutting out since patch 6.0.8 but I did fix my issue temporarily by turning off the sound effects in the game settings; however I have to play with no in game sound effects. I hope its just a patch issue because I would like to play with spell sounds and such again.

[thoma5nator]

6.08 definitely introduced the audio popping to me


why is your 2013 game causing stutters on good-quality CPU's?
>immermsive aumbio

[AriannaStormwake]

i thought the same but the stutter/crackling/no sound issues came from the loudspeakers
i have to buy new ones and see if this issue is fixed

[MEMANIAsama]

Can confirm, my spouse's laptop is exhibiting the issues everyone was complaining about pre.6.08. They fixed one thing and broke something else.

[Necrose]

likewise or GU on notebook jitters or stutters also , raids i have to turn off the immersive audio toy sound also