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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+698|6762|Washington St.
Okay this is a two parter:

1st: Whenever I talk into my mic, after a few seconds, it goes red and gives me that "too loud" symbol, and my squad always asks what I said because they say I just broke up halfway through (pressumably at the same time I saw the speaker icon go red). What the heck to I do. I've tried lowering the transmit volume but that just my squad just tells me they can barely hear me. I've tried moving the mic farther away from my face but it still does the "too loud" red speaker icon.
Does it have to do with that "microphone threashold test" option in audio? I've moved that bar up and down but I don't notice a difference. Or can I fix something in the Windows audio?

2nd: Does your SPM go down when your dead and you can see your body lying there (or where it was after 15 seconds). Because today I decided I was going to watch a 3 star general I had on my team to see how he played and the only way of doing this was to kill myself, wait 15 seconds and press 'C' until I was in his 3rd person view. I watched him the whole round and I realized that my SPM would take a serious hit if I did this a lot, but it wouldn't if it didn't count as me playing when I was "killed".

Thanks, karma for help on either question!
chittydog
less busy
+586|7307|Kubra, Damn it!

1. I turn on the mic boost in BF2. In Windows I keep my mic muted. Sound weird but it works fine.

2. Time while you're dead isn't counted.
Dauntless
Admin
+2,249|7214|London

1st - Try turning mic boost off.

2nd - SPM is how many points you make in a minute, I don't think it matters if you're dead or not.
https://imgur.com/kXTNQ8D.png
HeavyMetalDave
Metal Godz
+107|7129|California
on the INgame options for audio... set mic to like 5 %...

and turn off mic boost....

then thru windows's audio properties... test your headset and mic...

you should be fine.
pirana6
Go Cougs!
+698|6762|Washington St.

Dauntless wrote:

2nd - SPM is how many points you make in a minute, I don't think it matters if you're dead or not.

chittydog wrote:

2. Time while you're dead isn't counted.
wait, which is it?

+1 to each of you for the other one though.
chittydog
less busy
+586|7307|Kubra, Damn it!

pirana6 wrote:

Dauntless wrote:

2nd - SPM is how many points you make in a minute, I don't think it matters if you're dead or not.

chittydog wrote:

2. Time while you're dead isn't counted.
wait, which is it?

+1 to each of you for the other one though.
SPM is the average of how many points you make each minute that you're alive. Time while you're dead doesn't count. Actually, I don't believe time while dead is counted anywhere in BF2.
HeavyMetalDave
Metal Godz
+107|7129|California
ok about the mic again...

here's my settings in the game audio options....

Voip - enabled

Transmit 100%
Recieve 100%

Boost mic - off


Mic threshold test - 5%

hope this helps.
pirana6
Go Cougs!
+698|6762|Washington St.

HeavyMetalDave wrote:

ok about the mic again...

here's my settings in the game audio options....

Voip - enabled

Transmit 100%
Recieve 100%

Boost mic - off


Mic threshold test - 5%

hope this helps.
Wow, that acutally perfect! Now I just need to find a server with people to see if they can hear me...
Thanks
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