RandomSchl
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I currently have an ASUS M3A motherboard which came with onboard audio. It has either AC97 audio or HD audio, and both are by realtek. I'm using the HD audio right now, with the ALC883 audio codec with the latest 5.10.00.5172 driver. I have two problems currently. When I enable hardware audio rendering in BF2 there is a bunch of static and I can barely hear the game, but when I do software rendering the audio is fine. Other games such as Crysis and COD4 are fine with audio.

The other bigger problem is my mic doesn't work. I've tried muting it, changing the volume levels on it, plugging it in both the front and back ports, reinstalling drivers, and restarting. I don't know how long I've has this problem, but since I'm starting to play BF2 again and want to use voip I've discovered it.

Actually now I've discovered that if I use another microphone, Ill be able to blow into it and hear it when i unmute it, but then when I blow hard it cuts off. Windows sound recorder doesn't record me blowing into it though.

Last edited by RandomSchl (2008-01-20 23:03:44)

King_County_Downy
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+2,791|6877|Seattle

Has to be the driver...unless the hardware went bad. I know you said you re-installed the drivers, but did you do it through device manager, etc.?
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aimless
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+166|6404|Texas
My bf2 does that with my Audigy SE as well :\
Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6718|King Of The Islands

Well as for Hardware/Software, you do not have a sound card, you have pretty much Software emulation of a soundcard so Hardware won't work (well).

If you have XP I would recommend setting it to AC97, Vista to HD Audio.
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aimless
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+166|6404|Texas

Cheez wrote:

Well as for Hardware/Software, you do not have a sound card, you have pretty much Software emulation of a soundcard so Hardware won't work (well).

If you have XP I would recommend setting it to AC97, Vista to HD Audio.
Then how would that work with my card?
RandomSchl
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+52|6723|California

Cheez wrote:

Well as for Hardware/Software, you do not have a sound card, you have pretty much Software emulation of a soundcard so Hardware won't work (well).

If you have XP I would recommend setting it to AC97, Vista to HD Audio.
whats wrong with HD audio in XP?
Freezer7Pro
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+1,447|6477|Winland

aimless wrote:

Cheez wrote:

Well as for Hardware/Software, you do not have a sound card, you have pretty much Software emulation of a soundcard so Hardware won't work (well).

If you have XP I would recommend setting it to AC97, Vista to HD Audio.
Then how would that work with my card?
You propably have the wrong drivers.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
[CANADA]_Zenmaster
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BF2 doesn't support hardware rendering of a lot of audio cards (actual cards not just motherboard chipsets), so the fact that it only renders in software for your onboard solution is no surprise. Check BF2's release notes in the readme.txt file in your BF2 install directory, and I believe it says which audio cards it supports hardware rendering, else you are stuck with software.

About your mic problem, have you tried the +20 dB boost in the advanced options? My mic will always be extremely quiet unless that option is checked, for both my Vista and Xp systems.

Last edited by [CANADA]_Zenmaster (2008-01-21 16:33:57)

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