My computer makes a weird humming sound when I select different characters at the home screen. The noise changes when I select different characters. What is the noise caused by? Is this a bad thing? Should I re install the game?
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What does the noise sound like? Is it followed by any crashes or glitches?
The game would be accessing cached data on the hard drive in order to display your characters. I'd imagine you may hear your HD spinning.
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What does the noise sound like? Is it followed by any crashes or glitches?
The game would be accessing cached data on the hard drive in order to display your characters. I'd imagine you may hear your HD spinning.
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The game is installed on an SSD. It sounds like a high pitch humming noise and it changed pitches when I select different characters. The noise is only audible when I play WoW.
Oneshöt,
Ah, if it's installed to an SSD then no spinning would be going on. Does this noise persist after you select a character?
If you are comfortable doing so, you may want to open the system and check the fans. Make sure to clear out any dust or debris.
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Ah, if it's installed to an SSD then no spinning would be going on. Does this noise persist after you select a character?
If you are comfortable doing so, you may want to open the system and check the fans. Make sure to clear out any dust or debris.
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No, the noise goes away. Something weird must be going on. The PC itself is only 4 months old but I still cleaned out the minuscule amount of dust that was on one of the case fans. The noise cannot be herd while I play the character.
Oneshöt,
I see. I can't think of anything that would cause extra work on your hardware then.
Since the issue isn't getting worse or louder as you play, it doesn't sound like there would be a problem.
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I see. I can't think of anything that would cause extra work on your hardware then.
Since the issue isn't getting worse or louder as you play, it doesn't sound like there would be a problem.
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I have the same issue.
It doesn't seem to have any negative impact on performance.
As soon as I enter the game from the character select screen the noise goes away.
I think its my computers CPU cooler (I have a corsair hydro series cooler). Some applications cause its pump to make noise. Wow's character select screen is one of them.
It doesn't seem to have any negative impact on performance.
As soon as I enter the game from the character select screen the noise goes away.
I think its my computers CPU cooler (I have a corsair hydro series cooler). Some applications cause its pump to make noise. Wow's character select screen is one of them.
This has been happening for me for quite some time... I found my solution on the toms hardware forums:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2008087/gpu-making-weird-grinding-noise.html
and after setting the max foreground fps to 200, the noise on the character select screen was no longer noticeable.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2008087/gpu-making-weird-grinding-noise.html
and after setting the max foreground fps to 200, the noise on the character select screen was no longer noticeable.
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Yeah sounds like a power/graphics draw.. spin up and down of the fan or the video card fan just depends..
yea i had the same issue i just put the max fps to my monitor refresh rate(144hz) and it stops right away you will find that option in the advanced tab of the options
Same problem. Brand new, high end system. MSI GPU, SSD hard drive. Only at the character loading screen, sometimes followed by flitting white artifacts. No problems in-game. Definitely an issue with WoW and a software flaw, so please stop trying to suggest it's a hardware issue.
Still happens with game refresh rate matched to monitor refresh rate.
Incidentally I do run dual monitors, hypothetically an issue, one I'll look into.
Blizz please fix this. This is absolutely a software related issue, there are like 8 ppl posting here, meaning probably hundreds if not thousands that aren't posting since the issue works fine in game. This means that there is zero, absolutely ZERO, chance that all these PCs are running even a single common component, even by brand and component generation as a category. What if this issue, even if short lived at the character screen, is causing damage to my system or GPU? I mean seriously you have a bug producing a NOISE and on-screen artifacts at your character screen. That's really, really serious.
Don't try to pull this BS where you say, "Oh, it's fine if it doesn't happen in-game."
C'mon. This is a critical display error and should be treated as such by your team.
*Edit: It's early and I misread above, thinking the poster had said to match *refresh* rates. I matched foreground FPS to my monitor and the problem is solved. All my former comments stand though, you guys should advise your team to see if there's a way to have the game automatically avoid this problem.
Still happens with game refresh rate matched to monitor refresh rate.
Incidentally I do run dual monitors, hypothetically an issue, one I'll look into.
Blizz please fix this. This is absolutely a software related issue, there are like 8 ppl posting here, meaning probably hundreds if not thousands that aren't posting since the issue works fine in game. This means that there is zero, absolutely ZERO, chance that all these PCs are running even a single common component, even by brand and component generation as a category. What if this issue, even if short lived at the character screen, is causing damage to my system or GPU? I mean seriously you have a bug producing a NOISE and on-screen artifacts at your character screen. That's really, really serious.
Don't try to pull this BS where you say, "Oh, it's fine if it doesn't happen in-game."
C'mon. This is a critical display error and should be treated as such by your team.
*Edit: It's early and I misread above, thinking the poster had said to match *refresh* rates. I matched foreground FPS to my monitor and the problem is solved. All my former comments stand though, you guys should advise your team to see if there's a way to have the game automatically avoid this problem.
I had this problem a long time ago, turned out even with v-sync on my FPS would go into the near THOUSANDS at the character selection screen, causing my GPU fans to go freaking nuts which would cause artifacts, limiting foreground FPS to 60 fixed this like the above poster said.
I had the same issue on my SSD a weird humming. Checked all my fans and cleaned everything. Could not figure it out but then I changed my max foreground FPS to 200 and bam sound gone.
went to menu, graphics, advanced, set fps foreground to 60 fixed it
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01/26/2015 01:50 PMPosted by BrekerThis has been happening for me for quite some time... I found my solution on the toms hardware forums:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2008087/gpu-making-weird-grinding-noise.html
and after setting the max foreground fps to 200, the noise on the character select screen was no longer noticeable.
This is caused by coil whine this was fixed by setting max foreground fps to 200 worked like a charm.
Thank you so much! This has been driving me crazy ever since I bought my new computer.
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Will be doing this when I get home. Been looking for a solution to this sound for a while. Thanks everybody!
This is STILL a thing, but this is also still a solution.
01/26/2015 01:50 PMPosted by BrekerThis has been happening for me for quite some time... I found my solution on the toms hardware forums:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2008087/gpu-making-weird-grinding-noise.html
and after setting the max foreground fps to 200, the noise on the character select screen was no longer noticeable.
You sir are a genuine hero circa 2015. 2018 Thanks you for your service and wishes this had been acknowledged by a blue post.