+1 for the petition. I had to completely swap PCs in order to have sound working, leading to a very angelic experience when, after borrowing a PC from my tech savvy father and spending about 8 hours downloading the game, I finally heard the Pharos Sirius music ring true. The fact that these issues are CPU related is leading me to a situation where no one believes me, forcing me to hunt down placebos that almost work. It really gets to you and sours the experience. Music means a lot to me in general, especially in a game so masterful at it. That being said, I wasn't expecting to start crying of relief once I finally implemented a fix of the largest magnitude. I really should not have to get a newer PC to run FFXIV when I ran it perfectly for years on end prior.

I humbly request either SE puts in a toggle for the new sound system, fixes this mess, or, at the very least, make a large list of incompatible hardware and have the transparency to tell us their Benchmark did not do its job months prior. This is getting to a point of being unreasonable.