Some of us who are lucky enough to get past the long queues, the 2002 errors, and have enough time to not only deal with it, but also play a bit are finding that since this update, sound effects and music randomly stutter, drop out, or are otherwise rather distorted. It happens most often during combat, but I've had it happen in the inn room and while reviewing old voiced cutscenes.

I've been browsing several threads related to this subject in the technical support forum, and there's been no concrete workaround available for most of us, and no official responses. I've even gone so far as to go ahead and give that spatial audio plugin a shot to see if that would work around the issue. The random fits of stuttering weren't fixed by the plugin, and when it did sound "fine", the plugin just makes positioned sounds very, very weird to me to the point that I couldn't stand to be in our FC house with the orchestrion playing.

I've been messing around with sage and trying out changes to my other classes a bit, but I'm not inclined to even start MSQ when I won't be able to really enjoy the music or voice acting.

I know the issue will take some time to debug and produce a hot fix. All I'd like right now is official recognition that there is a problem and that a hotfix is planned in the near future to fix it.

If everyone else who is experiencing any kind of sound-related issue would post something about their experiences, it'd help make it more apparent just how widespread this problem is. Hopefully we can get an official response soon. Thanks.