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These gamers, I’ll tell ya…
Some of them think they know everything, but they’d be doing themselves a favor if they admitted that maybe they have a thing or two to learn when it comes to how these systems and games work…
In today’s story, a tech worker explained why he tried to help some folks out who were having problems with their favorite game, but one of them just didn’t want to listen.
Let’s take a look at what happened!
The know-it-all gamer.
“This tale involves probably the worst raid lead I ever had in Final Fantasy IV and his know it all friend who kept countermanding the advice I was giving him.
I won’t get into the reason he was the worst raid lead I ever had. Just know he was a bad tank, and a bad raid lead.
These gamers are a peculiar bunch…
The tech issue was complex for him. Whenever he plays Final Fantasy IV in Discord, his game freezes up. He has no issues if he is not in Discord.
He uses a set of Senheiser headset and a Dac6.
I asked him to bypass the Dac6 one day as a test.
His friends thought they knew better.
He said he did this, but did not. Issue occurred.
His best friend and the girl he just happened to be sleeping with, both were telling him I was an idiot and had no clue what I was talking about. The issue HAD to be video and not audio.
Even though the issue ONLY occurs when he is in discord and playing the game.
Second solution. Turn off hardware acceleration.
This guy just didn’t want to listen…
He did not do this. I’ll give you one reason why.
Third freeze happened mid raid. He asked me what he could do.
I gave him team viewer and checked event viewer once connected.
I used a third party website to read the vent viewer log, as I was too lazy to look it up for a raid member, and it showed a flurry of audio errors and permissions errors right at the freeze.
But OP knew what the issue was and how to fix it.
I check Discord. Hardware acceleration is on.
I turned it off. I turned off all audio enhancements in his headphone settings. I set the Dac6 control panel to use 24b 48khz, windows sound settings for the dac6 to use 24b 48khz as he had set it to 32b 48khz.
Final Fantasy IV can cause a freeze if there is a mismatch.
I turned off exclusive control for the dac6 in legacy control panel sound options and then had him restart.
Rest of night no freezes. Rest of raid week. No freezes. Two whole weeks of no freezing.
Here we go again…
Then his friend got ahold of his system. Ill give you one guess what happened next raid night.
I asked him if discord hardware acceleration is on, or if he turned on the audio enhancements in his headphone software.
Yes to both.
I told him to turn it off and turn off the audio enhancements while using the game. You can turn on your custom mixer when listening to your music after, but turn it off for the game. It’s causing issues.
Two weeks later.
This guy just couldn’t give it a rest!
His friend, the know it all, got involved again and told him that the changes I made obviously did not work as his game crashed on him.
His game actually crashed from using mods and Lightless Sync updating in the middle of Limsa with 40+ people near him he was synced to… But thats just my opinion.
I joined Discord and heard his friend saying I had no clue what I was talking about and that he should just kick me and replace me with his astro friend.
The static was doing Tea and just gotten past BJCC.
Whoa!
I hear his friend say this and basically tell him don’t bother. I will leave on my own.
I send a DM to the raid lead telling him his friend is an idiot and if he wants the issue fixed, to leave the changes I made alone.
His response was to send me a HR approved team removal message a day later. Said the group came together and made a decision… yada yada. Then a very snarky message that I should just give up on TEA.
I was going to leave it alone. But I am petty.
Let’s see how this plays out.
That message to just give up on TEA?
So I cleared the fight 3 days later and just HAPPENED to be near the exact spot he likes to stand in Limsa on his server with my shiny new legend title.
The funniest part. After he saw me in game and said in his discord. “Lightning got his Tea Clear. Yeah he is standing right by me in Limsa.”
People in Discord called me out. “He totally did that on purpose to rub it in our face that he cleared.”
Before he could answer… He froze up live on twitch again. His friend, the one who constantly counteracted everything I did, suggested he turn off hardware acceleration in discord and turn off audio effects in his headset control panel software.
Reddit users shared their thoughts.
This person weighed in.
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And another individual spoke up.
Well, he should’ve listened!
I thought the whole point was to actually PLAY the game…
Silly me!
These gamer folks sure are a picky bunch, huh?