Just tried hardware EAX...

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

[[R-DEV]sofad]

yes egg, i did some tests yesterday and the soundquality of the native support my X-FI card has ingame is in absolutly no comparison with any hardware/software settings i tried!

[JohnnyPissoff]

Originally Posted by CaptRio

I have an Audigy SE How can I see if I have the EAX enabled?

Sorry Rio originally missed your post. It should be enabled by default. To check or If you want to play around with effects or time scaling and you have the creative icon on your task bar double left click on it and move your mouse over the icons at bottom till you see "EAX console" If you don't have the icon go to the creative folder in program files. In the EAX Console press 'ctrl E" to enable EAX or at the bottom to the left of the recording bar you'll see a double arrow, click on it and select play. you'll see "enable EAX".

[JohnnyPissoff]

Originally Posted by CaptRio

When I play with hardware sound on, the voices keep stuttering it´s really weird. Any tips?

Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices. Make sure you have all the right sources and performance options checked (specially make sure your Audigy is default sound source. You might inadvertinly be using on-board as default). Also make sure hardware acceleration and sample rate conversion quality is set all the way up to full and best respectively.

[JohnnyPissoff]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]eggman

I have a Soundblaster Fatality thingy which has someting like 64mb of xram on it (BF2 beng one of the few games coded tot ake advantage of this).

I have a thx 5.1 setup that I never found as good to use as my zalman 5.1 headphones (which I got almost free at a local computer store where I have brought in lots of business).

These ones:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/...x=110&code=023

I think they are like $30 US now.

Sound for me is awesome. I also often stop for "listening stops" in game. Usually listen for gear rustling and footprints in woodland areas and gunfire in open areas.

sofad and jaymz are trying to stretch the bf2 sound engine well past it's intended design. it wasn't ntended to have sounds carry like they do irl. I'd recommend some 5.1 headphones.. even before they started to do the major sound overhaul I began to find them giving higher fidelity than my speakers, plus I can crank the volume when the wife is asleep. my pr goes to 11 btw

give these guys some time to sort out the issues and also recognize this.... do you use the onboard video that came with your motherboard ? usually not, usually because it's shite. think about investing in a decent sound card. some of the newer creative ones have improved a lot. the advances in eax 5 over the usual 2.0 that comes with licensed sound chips are very noticeable.

sound is an integral part of the gaming experience and I love the work these guys are doing to move that along with the rest of PR. In the mean time spend the $30 you saved in not buying PR on a pair of 5.1 headsets

I concur with your on the onboard video/onboard sound analogy. I'll even go as far as saying that the $30 saved, at the least could be spent on an old SoundBlaster Live better than using onboard sound. Simply for the sake of freeing up resources on your CPU.

[[R-MOD]dunehunter]

I used to play with the onboard sound and a cheap headset. Then I forked out for an X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Soundblaster cards and a 70 euro Sennheiser headset, and it has been worth every penny. It has done wonders for my sound quality, and people can understand me way better now.

[[-=IDSF=-]SykloAG]

Sound is awesome with my CL Audigy 4.
Stop supporting onboard sound cards! They all suck!
A $50 sound card can give you a new gaming experience (if your have speakers or headphones to match).