Sound fix with dx11

[Yahmosa]

Sound settings>Advanced sound options>App volume and device preferences, (with game open). Alternatively "Sound mixer options" typed up from the start menu

The "Outpout" box i have circled was blank. i changed it to my headset.

https://ibb.co/0rv7mBJ.

This may not work for everyone. i hope this helps somebody. If it works for you please spread the word.

Credit to "Krondle" for this idea. in another thread.

[AneiraWind]

DUDE I LOVE YOU FOR SHARING THIS. THANK YOUUUUU

[Yahmosa]

Playing around with my sound, the abilities definitely sound different. i know what people mean when they say it sounds like some skills are going off "out of combo". I believe this to be unrelated though. Less "crisp". Working good so far though no more buzzing/static

[TaleraRistain]

Which problems were you having? And was it blank blank or set to Default?

[Yahmosa]

Blank, not default. box was completely empty. when i changed it to my headset it fixed it immediately with the game still open even.

[TaleraRistain]

Mine are both Default but I'm going to see if the combat distortion is fixed by setting them to something specific. Once I can log in and attack something that is, lol. I don't have speakers to try, just my headphones. Mine has been doing the awful combat distortion others are describing and static/slowness in music and cutscenes. DX9 didn't fix it, unfortunately. I don't even want to do anything involving combat, it's so bad.

[Yahmosa]

I see, i was one where dx9 solved my sound issue but i keep troubleshooting because i wanted to play EW with dx11

[Aeryx_Seven]

I was having the same issue intermittently. Last night was fine... today logged in and only had music/interface sounds, but no voice acting or sound effects. I went into the sound mixer options and saw there were 2 options listed for FFXIV. Even after I closed the game, there was still a FFXIV option in the mixer.

Turns out, there was a rogue leftover instance of FFXIV still running in the background listed deep in "Background processes" in task manager. I killed the leftover background process that was running and restarted the game. Once I got back in the game (finally, damn queue), my sound was working as expected again. Hopefully this helps someone else. It seems a lot of these issues have the same symptoms, but aren't all the same cause.

[TorusTor]

Does anyone know what the fix would entail in Windows 7? There's not an option to change each individual program's output device in Win7's Sound Mixer.

[Morcale]

My output box was set to "Default" and changing it did not fix the problem sadly.