Faster Menus – Map Reveal and Alohomora Animations v7.0.2-beta.1

Faster Menus – Map Reveal and Alohomora Animations v7.0.2-beta.1

Shortens selected UI transitions, map reveal and Alohomora animations while preserving the lock puzzle. Beta: Microsoft Store / Xbox PC tested. Steam and Epic unverified.

Features

• Selected Field Guide, menu and UI transitions are shorter.
• The map’s cosmetic reveal animation is faster. Real data-loading and streaming readiness still matter.
• Targeted Alohomora cast, unlock and return animations are faster, and the black screen while the lock minigame opens is much shorter. The puzzle and lock-level checks are preserved.
• Since 6.0.0-beta.1: closing the Field Guide is much faster, and fixed waits in conversations, at vendors, at locks and after death are shorter. No character animations are changed by these.
• New in 7.0.0-beta.1: the map. You can use it about one second sooner after opening it, it appears without a fade, and after switching between Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and the world map its buttons, waypoint and fast travel, work as soon as the new map shows.
• New in 7.0.1-beta.1: the wand handles list no longer crashes on game versions from before the January 2025 update, for example an older Steam version.
• Compatible with the 5 November 2026 game patch: the game’s own Display settings screen is used, so the new DLSS 5 Neural Rendering option shows, new in 7.0.2-beta.1.

Specifications

• Package 1.0.16.0: user-confirmed locally on Xbox PC.
• Package 1.0.22.0: 7.0.2 was built from and tested on this package, the 5 November 2026 patch.
• Since version 6, the release replaces three player state scripts and the shared screen fade.
• Since version 7, the release replaces the three map screens.
• The map’s Back (B) waiting time for its own fade is about half a second.
• The map can be used about one second sooner after opening it.
• This release replaces 141 packages.

Requirements

No UE4SS, Apparate or Creator Kit installation is needed to use this mod.

Installation

1. Close the game.
2. Extract the ZIP into the game’s content root, the folder containing Phoenix.
3. Put the three matching files in PhoenixContentPaks~mods.
4. Keep their names unchanged and remove older FasterMenus copies.

Full instructions are in the included README.

Vortex’s documented Hogwarts extension accepts this layout, but its installation behavior on Xbox PC has not been separately verified.

Removal

1. Close the game.
2. Remove only zFasterMenus_P.pak, .ucas and .utoc.
3. Do not remove other mods or saves.

Compatibility

User-confirmed locally on Xbox PC package 1.0.16.0; 7.0.2 was built from and tested on package 1.0.22.0, the 5 November 2026 patch. Other storefronts and game builds are not verified. This is a beta. It does not promise an FPS increase, instant disk loading or removal of every native menu delay.

The faster black fade also applies to other fades in the game that use the default speed. On the map, the camera zoom when it opens or switches, Back (B) waiting for the map’s own fade, about half a second, and the short black screen on closing are in the game’s code and remain.

Conflicts

This release replaces 141 packages. Since version 6 these include three player state scripts and the shared screen fade. Since version 7 they include the three map screens, and the mod adds a few small pieces of Blueprint code to them and the Field Guide. Mods replacing the same menu, widget, map or lock assets may conflict. The download includes an affected asset list. A database merger does not merge these asset replacements.

Using Keep Appearance

Keep Appearance, which keeps your changed gear look when you equip new gear, also changes the gear menu. Download its optional file Keep Appearance for FasterMenus instead of its main file: it contains both mods’ changes, so the gear screen keeps FasterMenus’s faster animations.

Verification and AI disclosure

7.0.2 applies the edits of the locally played 7.0.0/7.0.1 builds to the patched game, without the Display settings screen, and was tested in the running patched game; the 7.0.1 wand handles check was tested with the mod-support function made unavailable as on older game versions. All chunks were verified offline. Packaging is not new cross-storefront testing.

Development used extensive generative AI for tooling and timing changes, with explicit inspection and verification. Page materials and the original cover were also AI-assisted/generated. No new AI voices, dialogue, music or textures are added to the game.