Please PROPERLY address audio stuttering issue

[MediArgentum]

I would very much like it if they allowed us to use "legacy" audio driver option, if that's even possible on the technical side of things. Because game sound was perfectly fine before Endwalker.

None of the reddit/forum fixes are working for me. I have AMD APU A8-5500, if that's even relevant at all.

[ray_lunaria]

This is the worst expansion ever, atleast in Stormblood we didn't have game-breaking bugs like this one

[spamantha]

This is absolutely atrocious. This patch did nothing to address this issue, and "lowering bitrate for less system intensivity" does absolutely nothing. This game is largely unplayable, and waiting 2+ weeks for a patch did nothing to address the problem.

[Arcee]

Chiming in with the same stuttering/popping sound issue. I've had this since the moment I hit the login screen for Endwalker Early Access, and none of the myriad of proposed fixes have solved the problem. Lower bitrate, dropping back to DX9, sound source positions, etc etc.

As everyone else has already said, I have never once had this issue prior to the expansion's release, and spent most of the game with my volume lowered/off because of how distracting and irritating the issue is. I also noticed this specific issue, the stutter/pop problem, was not mention in known problems even though there have been multiple threads with dozens, if not more, pages about the problem.

PLEASE, if nothing else, acknowledge you're seeing these posts and give some sort of assurance there are people looking into it, at the very least. It's disheartening to feel like nobody's listening when you folks are usually so good about it.

[Helbereth]

I didn't even have any audio problems until today, and it's pretty awful - I basically had to mute all sounds. None of the suggestions I've found did anything to fix it, either; lowering the bitrate, switching to DX9, etc.. Whatever they did to try to fix it seems only to have exacerbated the problem.

[Potchoko]

Just for the record that I have audio problems since the release of endwalker, if there are reports of improvement in 6.02 I renew my monthly fee

[FatalCharm]

After 2 weeks of waiting, however, we logged in the game only to discover that the update didn't change ANYTHING in regards to the audio stuttering/lagging/crackling issue..

Not true. My problem with stuttering audio (which is coming and going) just started today after the 6.01 patch. So I guess it changed something. Gee, thanks.

[Freki42]

As someone with sensory problems, the stuttering, cracking, and audio lag DOES NOT HELP AT ALL. I have been dealing with this off and on for WEEKS as have many others. This makes the game hard to play without getting me very antsy. This is the ONLY game I have the stuttering audio issue. Restarting the client multiple times later on the day is NOT a reliable "fix", because of login queues to get into the game at prime time.

FIX. IT.

There can be a long time between issues being reported and fixed in situations like this as you and others have described because it is not happening for everyone. FIXES take time, it requires tech information from EVERYONE having the information, happening specifications (does it happen all the time, in certain instances, certain areas etc) and then for them to look into this, each time is DIFFERENT it can't be fixed in a minute or 10 minutes just because you are angry. obviously you are not being patient like was asked. now how ever I will say it is a good thing to keep things like this in their view, so it isn't forgotten YES but to DEMAND from them to fix it is not really gonna happen if it's sporadic.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I support this thread. I have had the issue since the game launched but it worsened after today's patch.
I used the settings in today's patch notes and it worsened the problem.

[Lagunow]

I have been complaining on reddit nonstop since day one about this issue, but I'm going to comment here as well since it has more visibility and to help keep this thread on first page.

edit: video showing the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0zlmOvNnEQ
There's also this weird thing where the sound fixes itself after a specific attack, then goes back to being broken.

I also have an AMD FX-8350, and this is exactly the same issue I'm experiencing since 6.0 went live. This annoying sound is all I hear during combat and cutscenes on small chambers and tight spaces. I tried to tough it up until level 90, but I was starting to get sensory overload and I refuse to play muted or skip custcenes so I just dropped it altogether.