Sound effect issue?

[Eggroll]

Well It's not a big problem, more annoying than anything but only around half the sound effects are working for me (such as you can only hear one foot step, and when scrolling through items the targeting noise will only go off around every 5 seconds instead of playing whenever you select a item). Is there any way to fix this? I searched for a little bit and couldn't find anything so thought I'd ask here.

[Septimus]

One foot step? That's odd. I wonder if it is a problem playing in stereo. Maybe someone who knows something can give you an answer.

[Auspice]

I have a sweet sound glitch that whenever a bird or orc war machine moves it sounds like a machine gun from looping the first few seconds of the clip over and over on top of itself.

[Loren]

I have the same problem!
At first I thought it was just that my motherboard sound wasn't equipped to deal with multiple sound effects, so I went out and got a basic sound card that has 4 channels and stereo, etc. but the sound performance is the same. It's kinda frustrating...

[Eddie]

my motherboard sound

I see what you did there.

[Eggroll]

Ya, the worst part is that the /tell sound only goes off half the time too so you have to constantly switch back to the game to see if someone is trying to talk to you.

[evilpaul]

Maybe there's some sound buffer size issue with FFXI and certain sound cards? What card/chipsets, DirectX version, and sound drivers are the people with problems using?

I sometimes see sounds "dropped" when there's a lot going on at once, but I'm on PS2 so I kind of expect it.

[Auspice]

Using DirectX 9.0c and a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card

[Minions]

When I kill a bird it freezes my PC for a good 5-7 seconds then makes a loud noise like static v_v havn't been able to locate the sound file to replace it and see if it works though

[Doc]

I've had issues when I would cast blue magic.. the one that plays while the casting timer is going up... eventually it would make all the sound stop completely on my comp and eventually lock it up completely. Also using a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card and I believe the latest DX9.