My rig is a P4 3 Gig CPU, NVIDEA GeForce 6800 with 512K RAM and I am getting choppy sound when I play Battlefield 2142. My soundcard is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit. When I set the audio setting to hardware mode, the music is okay but the voices is choppy. But when I switch the audio setting back to software mode, there is no problem at all with the the sound and the voices is smooth. I am using the latest sound drivers and even with EAX disabled the voices is still choppy.

I am forced to play in software mode because of this problem. Is this a bug in the game or is it a hardware or software driver problem with my sound card which Creative Labs didn't bother to fix? Does anyone here with the same sound card as me have this problem?

you can enable EAX

but please disable the environment or special effects in your creative mixer.

With that amount of ram.... no wonder la. 512Kb?

bad news bro.

Its there on the readme.

The following sound cards do not support hardware audio renderer option:

Acoustic Edge
ALC861 Audio
ALC882 HDA Audio
Cadenza (Intel 845)
Canyon 3D-2
Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 NX
Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
Creative Labs SB Extigy
Creative Labs SB Live 24-bit
Creative Labs SB MP3+USB
Creative Labs SB PCI 512
Diamond XtremeSound 7.1
DIGIFIRE 7.1
ESS Canyon 3D-2
Game Theater XP 7.1
Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1
Gamesurround Muse 5.1 DVD
Gamesurround Muse LT
Gamesurround Muse XL
HiTec Digital Audio X Mystique 7.1 Gold
IOMagic Storm Surge
Philips Acoustic Edge
Realtek ALC861 audio
Realtek ALC850 audio
SB Live 24-bit
Soundmax 3
Soundmax 4
Soundmax ADI AD1980 CODEC
Soundmax Cadenza (Intel 850)
Soundmax Cadenza (Intel 845)
Storm Surge
Turtle Beach Montego DDL
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
XtremeSound 7.1

This post has been edited by scaygoo: Oct 22 2006, 07:26 AM

Thanks. I see it's not the RAM problem but the sound card doesn't have support for hardware audio renderer. Stupid EA wants to force us to buy the latest SB X-FI sound card, eh?!!!! I will just have to play with software renderer then.

my audiotrak prodigy 7.1 cannot use hardware renderer
i can to hardware with no lag...and the fps improve alot
but the dang thing is
i can hear all the sound...the whole map

Believe me...when it is ultra high.You'll hear something that you dont want to hear....

Use X-fi lahh....the fps also improve a lot.


X-RAM FTW!!!!

what did you mean?you mean the Xi fi or audigy? what did you hear give example...planing to get one if really got big different

Ok...you can all see it here


http://www.soundblaster.com/Applications/a...5&categoryID=13

and here

http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews-69-page1.html

and here

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=25423

Edit:I'll keep updating this post if i find more useful resources

Btw,Dont get me wrong here.Of course there is cons and pros when using X-Fi fatality such as doesnt support certain games like CSS or etc.Mostly this card is useful for games like quake 4 , Bf2 , Bf2142 and for future upcoming games.I'll try to post the cons and pros of the card itself

I hope that i'm helping

This post has been edited by RaedeanBF2: Oct 22 2006, 02:57 PM

i also got crap sound.. crakle crakle sound..
my ram is 1.5gb n i'm using onboard sound..

Luckily im using SB Audigy 2...im not encounter any sound problems...

any1 here use auditrak prodigy 7.1 to play bf2142 ?
come share ur in-game and driver setting

it's worth to upgrade to X-fi...

the sound is crisp and you reduce taxing to the CPU

what they said by ea not quite true( i think) now i using the audigy set it to run hardware and ultra quality sound..seem working fine to me.

i dont fell any different by comparing the low and ultra high.


This post has been edited by Hellsceamer: Oct 28 2006, 01:30 PM

audigy can run Ultra???

R u sure??

AFAIK, ultra is only for Xfi card.... same goes to BF2

HAHAHA... my nvidia onboard sound card no problem.
Even set as hardware rendering.

i'm using T-550...and got the crappy sound..mind to share what driver do u use?

The normal nvidia onboard sound-lah, nothing special. Just install the driver from the nvidia website.

What is T-550?