Epic Games Launcher Is Officially To Blame For Weird PC Noises

If Your PC Is Making Random Noises, You Can Blame The Epic Games Launcher Published Sep 20, 2026, 8:35 AM EDT George is the Lead News Editor for TheGamer, and has been working in the industry since 2021 after graduating from the University of South Wales with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. He has also previously written for RPG Site, WhatCulture, and PlayStation Lifestyle. George is an expert on platformers, action games, and fighters, but tends to play as many releases as possible. This hands-on experience lets him dive into gaming communities and follow the latest trends. Some of the games George has extensively covered first-hand include Dead Rising, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Ninja Gaiden 4. Sign in to your TheGamer account If your PC has been making random pinging noises that you can’t track down, you can almost definitely pin the blame on the Epic Games Launcher. Considering how important technology is in our day-to-day lives, I’d bet that almost every one of you can instantly recognise a specific app or game sound without any trouble. Whether it be Discord, Steam, Gmail, or my personal earworm, Slack, a ton of platforms have very specific noises that are ingrained in all of our brains, for better or worse. That makes it all the more worrying when you start hearing a sound from something on your PC, but have no idea what it could possibly be, which is exactly what has been happening to a ton of gamers lately. As it turns out, the culprit for a lot of annoying confusion is one we probably should have guessed a lot quicker. Epic Games Launcher Is The Reason For All Your PC’s New Noises “'I’VE BEEN HEARING THIS S**T FOR WEEKS” Over on Twitter, reliable Fortnite insider FireMonkey shed some light on the Discord-esque “ba bing” noises that a lot of us have been hearing from our PC lately. According to them, the noises all come from the Epic Games Launcher, and represent party users leaving and joining, messages received, party joinability changing, and push-to-talk activation. Since those are all things that happen in the background quite a lot, it’s no surprise that everyone’s been hearing these noises pretty frequently. Epic also didn’t inform anyone of the sound effects, which is why so many people have been confused about what app could possibly be making so many random sounds. As if figuring out the noises wasn’t enough, the official Fortnite Status account even replied to the thread, thanking FireMonkey for the feedback and confirming that “these party chimes are triggering more often than we intended”. The launcher is being updated now to narrow the events that play these sounds, which hopefully means hearing less of them. While that’s a step in the right direction, many are replying to the comment asking for an option to just turn them off altogether, while expressing frustration with Epic not making this clear from the get-go. Considering all of the hate that EGS already gets, annoying its entire user base isn’t exactly helping its case.