Annoying looping background noise when map open

[Marconius6]

Hello,

I've picked up the game relatively recently, and I'm now noticing a very annoying issue: basically, whenever the Map screen is open (which is quite often), there is this annoying looping background noise, that I suppose is meant to simulate like a hologram or virtual overlay or something. The problem is it's an incredibly repetitive sound loop with no variation, and it's right at that high-pitched frequency that just gives me a horrible headache when listening to it for any length of time. At first I thought it was one of my PC fans slowly dying and spent days trying to figure out the source of the noise, but turns out it was from the game...

Is there some sort of setting or mod I could use to disable this torture noise? I've discovered I can turn down the volume of UI sounds to get rid of it, but of course that disables all other UI sounds too, which I would prefer to avoid.

[vvvvvvvv]

Hello,

I've picked up the game relatively recently, and I'm now noticing a very annoying issue: basically, whenever the Map screen is open (which is quite often), there is this annoying looping background noise, that I suppose is meant to simulate like a hologram or virtual overlay or something. The problem is it's an incredibly repetitive sound loop with no variation, and it's right at that high-pitched frequency that just gives me a horrible headache when listening to it for any length of time. At first I thought it was one of my PC fans slowly dying and spent days trying to figure out the source of the noise, but turns out it was from the game...

Is there some sort of setting or mod I could use to disable this torture noise? I've discovered I can turn down the volume of UI sounds to get rid of it, but of course that disables all other UI sounds too, which I would prefer to avoid.

Is this the scratchy sound you hear when you scroll with mouse wheel (because i can glitch and loop), or is there some sort of high pitched CRT-like sound?

[Alan Phipps]

A somewhat similar request/comment here.

[MarStrMind]

This mod might remedy the situation for now: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/783

Have not tested in 7.5, but it might work.

[Marconius6]

Is this the scratchy sound you hear when you scroll with mouse wheel (because i can glitch and loop), or is there some sort of high pitched CRT-like sound?

No, this happens just from opening the map. I think it's just an ambient background noise.

This mod might remedy the situation for now: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/783

Have not tested in 7.5, but it might work.

I think this might be it. I'll definitely try it out, thank you!


EDIT: Yeah, it seems like the above mod solved the issue. It's a very simple mod that just replaces a sound file, so I expect it will work for most game versions too.