Excessive/Looping Hull Creak Sounds

[Gustav Schiebert]

Hello my fellow kaleuns/oberleutnants, quick one for you -

I've noticed that my sub suffers from what seems to be the top 'level' of creaking, even when on the surface - so the sounds you'd normally hear at 200m are constantly playing. Very noisy and annoying.

Also, occasionally (not sure what triggers it) the creak track gets stuck in a loop and the same 1 sec or so constantly repeats. Nothing short of restarting the game fixes it.

Now, I have played with the sound files a bit. Mainly using Thompsen's Sound Pack, with some picked Spirit of the Machines, Internal Life and other sounds that I like mixed in. I realise that totally reinstalling one single sound pack might well fix it - but I've tweaked them to a nice level and I'd like to keep it if possible, so just wondering if there's something I can do without resorting to a total swap. I'm not very techy-minded but I wouldn't have thought just swapping sound files about like this would affect this too much?

Thanks in advance for any advice!