Possibly most strange bug report you ever received

[nE0sIghT]

Hello!

First of all thanks for you great game - I very like it.

It's possible this will be most strange bug report you ever receive but beleave me - it's most strange bug I ever reported.
Please note that I reported this to you because Starcom: Nexus is the only app with such behavior in my environment.

When I playing Starcom: Nexus - there is a strange hardware noise appears.
I think this is somehow related to star lights - this noise hears at start menu constantly and sometime in-game.
I never heared such noise for 1.5 years my PC works in that configuration.

The video of noise when Starcom: Nexus is started: https://youtu.be/r448CxVuVq4
The video of The Outer Worlds without noise: https://youtube.com/shorts/FAyZoHi4BQg

My PC specs:
MSI B550A-PRO
Ryzen 5800x with Noctua NH-D15
Gigabyte RTX 3600
4 SSDs and 1 HDD (which is not used):
- WD Blue SATA SSD 1TB (the game is here)
- WD sn850 m.2 NVMe 2 TB
- WD Blue SATA 500G SSD
- OCZ Vertex4 SATA
- WD Green 1.5T HDD SATA

I have dual-boot environment with Gentoo GNU/Linux and Windows 11.
The only disk is used by Windows is WD Blue SATA SSD 1TB.
No other disk have windows partitions (except UEFI system partition on NVMe)

[justkevin]

That is a new one. From your video it seems as if it's louder as you zoom in?

One possibility is that some combination of fan speed and/or coil whine are synchronizing with some component at a particular resonance frequency. So games with higher or lower
power demand wouldn't hit it. You could experiment with adjusting the various graphics and audio settings in options to see if any of them change the sound.

[nE0sIghT]

I already tried all graphic levels (from low to ultra) with no change.
I disconnected power cable from my hdd with no change.

As of map view - there is constant noise with high zoom and low zoom. There is no noise somewhere in the middle of zoom.
I also experience this noise near warp holes and near some (not all) stars while approaching them when star light flash happens.

I agree that it can be some sort of coil whine. Just for some reason hitting it only with this game.

I also just installed it in my Gentoo box and same noise is here. So this is not OS related problem.
The strange thing in Linux is that I continuosly getting "window not responsing" error however it doesn't stuck and I can control it fine clicking "wait" GNOME button until "not responding" box appears again: https://imgur.com/a/wUQ3DAb

[nE0sIghT]

After listening all parts of my PC I think this noise can be related to my Gigabyte p850gm PSU.
I find it more amusing then annoying because it looks like the game is resonancing with my PC and the chance of such resonance is very small so I just lucky :-)

[Darke]

Originally posted by nE0sIghT:

After listening all parts of my PC I think this noise can be related to my Gigabyte p850gm PSU.
I find it more amusing then annoying because it looks like the game is resonancing with my PC and the chance of such resonance is very small so I just lucky :-)

How old is the PSU? Could just be getting old and this game/gentoo is just stressing one voltage rail more then that others. It's definitely weird though. But I did notice someone on amazon was complaining about bad coil whine as well with this psu so you're not the only one. :)

[nE0sIghT]

> How old is the PSU?

June 21

[vukotlak]

It's the ghost in the machine.

[TheFawz]

Make sure you're limiting the game's FPS via either a Frame Rate lock or V-Sync. Likely to work best if forced at the GPU Driver level