AMS 2 = Squealing PC in menus?

[Steve Bird]

I've noticed that in the menus AMS2 causes my PC to have a high pitched squeal. Once I get into game theres no issue but this is the only title that I get this issue on.

PC is 9900K OC by Scan, MSI 2800 Super, ROG STRIX H370-F GAMING with 32GB of DDR4 3600.

Does anybody with a similar set up have any issues?

 

[BrunoBæ]

Are you sure it doesnt have something to do with the menu sound.
Because you can lower that to zero.

 

[EsxPaul]

I've noticed that in the menus AMS2 causes my PC to have a high pitched squeal. Once I get into game theres no issue but this is the only title that I get this issue on.

PC is 9900K OC by Scan, MSI 2800 Super, ROG STRIX H370-F GAMING with 32GB of DDR4 3600.

Does anybody with a similar set up have any issues?

Are you getting massively high framerates while in the menus? I've had that happen to me in the past with rF2 and it was the high frame rates causing coil whine on the GPU.

 

[passenger]

Same here with rFactor 2 a long time ago. I don't remember what I did back then to get rid of that noise... maybe an update fixed it. Anyway, setting the volume to 0 should fix this problem for
now.

 

[Nuno Pinheiro]

I've noticed that in the menus AMS2 causes my PC to have a high pitched squeal. Once I get into game theres no issue but this is the only title that I get this issue on.

PC is 9900K OC by Scan, MSI 2800 Super, ROG STRIX H370-F GAMING with 32GB of DDR4 3600.

Does anybody with a similar set up have any issues?

I have the same problem, have no idea why

 

[Akimidato]

I've experienced this as well. While in the menu, my GPU will revv up to its highest capacity and it sounds like my
PC is going to take off.

My guess would be it is either uncapped framerate or particle effects in the menu. I've had this happen in other games,
too (BF5 in that case). Once back in game, it goes away.

Edit:
to narrow it down maybe, I only play VR. Does it happen in 2D as well ?

 

[Emery]

Squeal likely comes from video card's scan coils. Or fan bearings/blades (example: Fanatec CSWv2).

 

[PaidoGato]

Me too, the frame rate was going up over 800fps in the menus.
I'm afraid of breaking my 2080ti

 

[Akimidato]

Mee to, frame rate was going up over 800fps in the menus.
I'm afraid of braking my 2080ti

You can hard-cap your frame rate with MSI Afterburner / Riva Statistics Tuner (the tuner software should be included in Afterburner).
I do this occasionally in games that would otherwise waste my GPU power for nothing.

 

[PaidoGato]

It would be cool if we could cap the frame rate only in menus, like CoD: MW we can define a cap for the menu and a cap for the game itself.
As I'm currently running it on a 165hz display, I want to have like 60fps on menus and uncapped in the game.

 

[Akimidato]

As far as I know, it then would be better to generally cap the FPS to your monitors' refresh rate, i.e. 165 .
Anything above will not benefit you whatsoever.

I agree, setting a cap ingame is always nicer

 

[PaidoGato]

I'll try it... In fps games, people say that capping the frame rate always adds a little input lag.
But I think it'll be cool in a racing game.
...
I remembered this game has a VR mode, maybe they're making it uncapped in the menus because of virtual reality.
I will try to post this issue there in the bug report topic if it isn't there yet.

 

[pennywiseguy]

Pretty sure the squeal is your monitor. I used to get the same in a few games before using Vsync. I now get the squeal for a few seconds once I've powered down my pc and the monitor is turning off.

 

[PaidoGato]

It's my GPU, my case is open now and the noise starts from there as soon as I boot the game.
When closing the game the noise stops.
V-sync limits the frame rate to your monitor so the GPU doesn't work too hard on some situations.
I don't like enabling it cause it introduces input lag.
What I do is enabling G-sync on some games.

 

[BrunoBæ]

the frame rate was going up over 800fps in the menus.

Mine does sometimes go to about 11-1300fps.
But I think that is fake numbers.
Im using the Steam fps counter to display it and I just think that its a counting issue - and not anything near the actual numbers.
At least on my system the fluctuation is to large.
Within ½ sec it goes from about 60 to the mentioned 1300 fps.

 

[TShrimp]

Sounds like possible coil whine from your video card. I doubt it is anything to worry about. Not uncommon.

EVGA FAQ - What is coil whine, and how does it affect my video card?

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www.evga.com

 

[Dann Murillo]

I thought this was something to do with my PC. Thanks for posting this thread. In the game menus, Steam says I am around 2000 fps. Vsync enabled fixes the hissing.

 

[passenger]

Dann, since you are a Reiza Backer, please report this issue to them so they can fix it so there's
no need to touch Vsync, the Volume output or any other thing. It still could cause problems to
any other users with different hardware.

 

[Case_]

To be fair, this technically isn't an issue on the side of the game (though it still might be sensible to limit your framerate in menus a bit). It's an issue with your GPU. It should be able to handle the load without any noise other than fans.

Also why people don't limit their framerate is beyond me. I'm very sensitive about input lag, and I still wouldn't want my framerate unlimited. Limiting it to the nearest multiple of your refresh rate you can sustain consistently gives you a much smoother experience than framerate jumping up and down constantly. And it also helps keep your GPU and CPU temperatures lower, which is something you almost always want.

 

[passenger]

But the software can be tweaked so, when in the menu, the GPU does not reach that many FPS, and only the refresh rate of the monitor or even less, since a menu screen doesn't
need much FPS to run fluidly.