Hacker News Reader

I have a similar issue with Genshin on PS5 when using the headphone jack in the controller with IEMs (didn't happen with a headset). It starts buzzing in my left ear when I open the game menu or open the map. On the map it only buzzes when I move the cursor, interestingly enough. I later noticed that the PSU coil whine coincided with the same events. Still no idea why it's like that

Thankfully doesn't happen with an external DAC.

View on HN

> On the map it only buzzes when I move the cursor, interestingly enough

Sounds like the game is doing more when the cursor moves around, they're probably checking for where the cursor is, and something is making the CPU/GPU do a bunch of extra work, which finally triggers the coil whine when the PSU is more heavily used.

I've basically had the same issue with Nvidia cards since the 2080ti started doing coil whine as soon as I opened Unreal Engine. Some programs trigger different sounds, depending on how much/well they use the GPU, and I've had the literal same experience with "hovering with my mouse over element X triggers coil whine" multiple times before.

They connected the headphones to a wireless controller. The wireless controller doesn't have a GPU.

yeah but the noise coincides with when coil whine happens so i think that's still a solid guess

Reply on news.ycombinator.com