Battlefield 2 - Sound-Volume Problem

[GLH]

When i've started the normal BF2, my settings for music-volume are set very low.
When i choose a BF2:SF map from the server browser, the game quits and then restart with the SF enabled and automaticly connect to the choosen server.

During the loading the music volume is set to high. Only if the loading is ready the music-volume is back at my settings.

EA Support told me to change the settings for my sound-hardware-acceleration (DXdiag.exe), but this wasn't a solution. Same problem with each setting in DXdiag.

Anyone else here with the same problem, and perhaps a real solution ???

[DABhand]

I cant Resist...


Talk to Developer for help.... (joes line :P) lol


j/k




If you have a hardware card in a PCI slot GLH make sure the onboard is disabled.

If only one or the other is used, be it hardware or software (onboard), remove the driver for it (uninstall), then reinstall an older driver to the current driver your using.

Other than that, that is weird..


Unless you have software like a DVD player that is still running and has a Volume boost enabled for watching movies? I know PowerDVD has that option.

[GLH]

I've already asked the EA Support. They told me to turn on/off the hardware-acceleration for sound with the DXdiag.exe.
But that wasn't the solution.

I don't have a PCI-Card-Sound. I use just my onboard sound.
All my Clan mates also have this problem. And we all don't have PCI-Card-Sound, only onboard, but all different mainboards.

I think it's an error in the game. When it restart and instantly connect the server the game don't recognize the settings.

It's sad that the support tries to riddle what the problem is, instead of simply reconstruct the situation and look if the error also appear.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Oh god, GLH, an onboard sound card; how do you expect quality output from such a thing...? Get, at least, a SB Live! or Audigy instead.

[Grumpy]

The new v1.21 update patch will be released by EA tomorrow morning.
But if you really cant wait til the morning then be my guest and download the v1.2-1.21 Incremental Patch from [Link Removed].

EDIT: I removed my link for the v1.21 patch as it is now available from EA's site. You can find them at the links below.

Battlefield 2 v1.21 Patch

Battlefield 2 v1.21 Incremental Patch

[kosmiq]

1.21 fixes virtually nothing... It still claims to fix the broken browser wich the previous was supposed to fix because the patch before that said it would fix it but made it even worse because the only release of BF2 with a working browser was the demo...

However 1.21 fixes almost none of the 48 new bugs introduced with the 1.2 patch that fixed almost nothing that the patch before that 'unfixed'.

Errr back on subject... Why not start BF2:SF directly and have it enabled directly... Or does the thing with the sound happens when you do that too?

[GLH]

Originally Posted by kosmiq

Why not start BF2:SF directly and have it enabled directly... Or does the thing with the sound happens when you do that too?

If I start BF2:SF directly, I do not get this error. It's laboriously to quit the game, only to play a map of SF.

[Grumpy]

The best thing the v1.21 patch has done is stopped everyone from dropping claymores everywhere! Strike at Karkand used to be Strike with Claymores.

Also what is the 'Broken Browser'? Do you mean where you could no longer type in just the map name in the Multiplayer map? If so that is fixed and working fine for me? But somehow I dont think this is what you are talking about.
Ive only played for a few hours with the new patch but yes I too have noticed a few glitches still in the game! Mainly with some graphics though.
I have an ATI card. Admittingly my drivers could do with updating.

[kosmiq]

The game browser could ofc be somewhat fixed now, rarely uses it anyway as I only play on my fav servers.

However, the last time I used the ingame browser it was very buggy. Selecting different options made it stop working and a restart was required, while the demo browser worked perfectly for some reason. The demo browser even had favorites wich was added later with a patch in final...

I think that 1.21 is a step forward atleast, I only wish EA could write down ALL changes instead of the bigger ones. I have noticed that they have rebalanced AA again. It is at a much more balanced level now and should be left as is. The Clear! Clear! Clear! bug with medic still exist though.

The thing with limited claymores is sweet, 1.2 was insane with that. Even though it got me Expert Explosives I didn't like it tbh.

Glitches in this game will always exist as it should been in development a few more months IMHO. But I still enjoy it alot.

As for the thread subject, why not change the module in community options and change it to SF before joining a map, that worked perfectly for me while I still was playing SF.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by kosmiq

As for the thread subject, why not change the module in community options and change it to SF before joining a map, that worked perfectly for me while I still was playing SF.

It's easier to simply click on the map/server. The game also quit and restart. But it don't recognize the sound-settings.
OK. Seems there is no real solution.
As i asked before, do you get the "problem" also.

[Grumpy]

@GLH

As i asked before, do you get the "problem" also.

No, I dont.
I dont have onboard sound tho, I have an audigy 2 platnium sound card.

[kosmiq]

No idea if I have the problem. I select "same mod" in the browser and very rarely play SF anyway.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Oh god, GLH, an onboard sound card; how do you expect quality output from such a thing...? Get, at least, a SB Live! or Audigy instead.

Originally Posted by Grumpy

I dont have onboard sound tho, I have an audigy 2 platnium sound card.

Will a seperate Soundcard be so much better. My onboard sound is 7.1 and EAX compatible.
(My mainboard)

[kosmiq]

Well IMO almost all built-in soundcards sucks. Why? Because they are made of cheap components, uses CPU power to create sounds and the general quality of them are often bad.

I know of only 2 kinda good built in soundsolutions. The first one i Soundstorm that was about the same level as the Audigy 1. The second of is the SB HD Live! built into a few MSI m/b afaik.

The one used on Asus NF4 series is not good enough for me atleast. Thats why I got an X-Fi ExtremeMusic...

And even if the onboard sound looks flashy on the paper it rarely lives up to it. But I guess it is mostly about demands and what you have to compare with. If you think the built in is sufficient, don't put money into a separate one.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Avoid those Realtek integrated "sound cards" whenever you can. The AC97 was bad, and I see no reason why the others in the Realtek series would be better. (I agree with kosmiq: cheap is usually bad... )