Red Radar on top left corner?

[Omikron_25]

Hello, maybe this question has been answered, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. Hopefully you can help me.

I played this game on PS3 way back when the orange box came out and loved it. Then played 2 also on PS3 when it came out and couldn't get enough of it. Recently I got a gaming laptop and decided to revisit this master piece and have been loving every second of it. However, I do not recall having a "radar like" red circle in the top left corner as part of the HUD. It seems to react to sound, but I can't figure out what it's for, or how to turn it off. Nothing in the options menu says anything about it, and I haven't been able to find any info about it. It annoys me, not because it's there, but because I don't know what its for. Hopefully you can inform me.

Thanks in advance.

[Calmly Frenetic]

It's not part of the game. It could be an overlay you have running in the background on your pc. There is a sound tracker that causes a blue circle in the related game Half-Life 2 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/220/discussions/0/152393186477706168/

[Omikron_25]

Originally posted by Calmly Frenetic:

It's not part of the game. It could be an overlay you have running in the background on your pc. There is a sound tracker that causes a blue circle in the related game Half-Life 2 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/220/discussions/0/152393186477706168/

Thank you! I’ll look into it. I’m new to gaming on PC, so it would’ve never occurred to me that an external program was to blame.

[Omikron_25]

Originally posted by Calmly Frenetic:

It's not part of the game. It could be an overlay you have running in the background on your pc. There is a sound tracker that causes a blue circle in the related game Half-Life 2 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/220/discussions/0/152393186477706168/

Hello again,

I can't figure out what app might be the culprit. I took a couple screenshots, how can I send them to you?

[Omikron_25]

Originally posted by Calmly Frenetic:

It's not part of the game. It could be an overlay you have running in the background on your pc. There is a sound tracker that causes a blue circle in the related game Half-Life 2 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/220/discussions/0/152393186477706168/

I Solved it! It was, just as you suggested, a sound radar feature, part of the Dolby Atmos system for Lenovo Legion Laptops. After a couple of hours searching for similar problems on other laptop brands, i was able to figure it out. Thanks again for your response

[Calmly Frenetic]

I'm glad you found the culprit. A screenshot would help others with the same problem.

To take a screenshot in a game with the Steam Overlay, press F12. For the various settings, go to the menu at the top-left of the Steam client window (Steam > Settings) and check the "In-Game" and "Cloud" sections. Note that each game has its own option to enable the Steam Overlay - in your Library, right click on the game and select Properties.

To get an uploaded screenshot to show in a post, go to your screenshots page, right-click on the thumbnail of the target screenshot, select "Copy Link Address", then go to your post, right-click and select "paste". If the "Copy Link Address" option is not available, open the screenshot then copy the text of the URL at the top.

Any Steam community URL of the form "steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=" will automatically generate a "widget" in a discussion post.

[leybbbo]

For those interested, this radar thing is part of the Dolby system for Lenovo Legion laptops.

Open Lenovo Vantage, in quick settings, disable dolby, that'll fix it.

[Artificer]

It's dobly. This just happened to me randomly. Thank god I found this post.

[76561199432891990]

hola

[bittyboi]

its still not going away

[bittyboi]

ive disabled dolby

[Four]

Thank you! I also have a Lenovo Legion laptop and this solved my issue.