How to turn off background sound with a hex edit

[Blackfox]

Do you hate that the new Turtle WoW patch makes WoW play its sounds even when it's not focused? Here's how you can revert this change using a hex edit.

All you have to do is change the value at adress 3A4869 to 14

WoW.exe for TurtleWoW 1.16 (no background sound)


WoW.exe for TurtleWoW 1.16.1 (background sound forced on)


Thanks to Brndd who made the patch for the previous version, which included the Background sound modification, thanks to his source code I could find what value needed to be changed

disclaimer: I dunno why it works, I just figured changing it to the value from the previous version would do it, and it works without issues for me so far

[Brndd]

disclaimer: I dunno why it works, I just figured changing it to the value from the previous version would do it, and it works without issues for me so far

Well, it works because it un-does the patch. Simple as that ;).

[Torta]

It does not undo the patch. The correct implementation is described here: https://github.com/slowtorta/turtlewow- ... 742afae2a0

We might try to add a checkbox for that :( But it's complicated

[Brndd]

It does not undo the patch. The correct implementation is described here: https://github.com/slowtorta/turtlewow- ... 742afae2a0

We might try to add a checkbox for that :( But it's complicated

I meant that it un-does the sound in background patch, not that it un-does the entire 1.16.1 patch.

Adding a checkbox accessible in the client options would be cool, but it's far from easy to implement.

[Citizenkane]

Thanks for the quick fix @Blackfox. That being said, having an in-game option for this purpose would be very much welcome.

[Blackfox]

Well, it works because it un-does the patch. Simple as that ;).

I mean, first I thought it should be on one bit, since it's a simple switch, but flipping singular bits on that adress just breaks it. Only then did I realise I could just lookup the old .exe value. I don't understand why 27 and 14. but it's whatever

[Blackfox]

We might try to add a checkbox for that :( But it's complicated

It's a personal preference. The patch should not have forced it on people. Before people could turn it on using the custom patcher if they wanted it. Should have kept it that way and released a patcher for 1.16.1

[Citizenkane]

It's a personal preference. The patch should not have forced it on people. Before people could turn it on using the custom patcher if they wanted it. Should have kept it that way and released a patcher for 1.16.1

This. Just because one player was spamming in world chat about wanting to hear his fishing bobber go off while alt tabbed, doesn't mean everyone wants it too.

[Brndd]

I mean, first I thought it should be on one bit, since it's a simple switch, but flipping singular bits on that adress just breaks it. Only then did I realise I could just lookup the old .exe value. I don't understand why 27 and 14. but it's whatever

It's not a boolean flag, instead it's a machine code instruction. It patches a jump instruction to skip the branch of code that mutes audio when the window loses focus.

[Torta]

This has been disabled by default in Patch 1.16.2. If you still want to use it, download our optional binary from here: https://github.com/slowtorta/turtlewow- ... in/WoW.exe