For users without EAX hardware

Post by **Jaymz** » 2007-07-22 06:09

woops?

Eddiereyes909 · Post by **Eddiereyes909** » 2007-07-22 06:14

I don't see where to DL it from.

Or maybe its just that im using Fire Fox

Post by **BlakeJr** » 2007-07-22 06:18

Direct link... I think

http://developer.creative.com/articles/ ... alinst.exe

El_Vikingo · Post by **El_Vikingo** » 2007-07-22 06:18

Attachments at the bottom.

Diesel0ne · Post by **Diesel0ne** » 2007-07-22 06:19

Edit: nvm.

Post by **Jaymz** » 2007-07-22 06:22

yeah it's at the bottom, sort of hidden. Got me too

Artnez · Post by **Artnez** » 2007-07-22 06:41

Ooh.. can we get a tiny tiny hint on the new sound thing you speak of for 0.7? Any hint at all? Please, please, please!

Expendable Grunt · Post by **Expendable Grunt** » 2007-07-22 06:47

To be honest, sound cards are where I'm a bit shakey on my hardware experience -- how do I know if my onboard sound has EAX?

Post by **Jaymz** » 2007-07-22 09:23

Expendable Grunt wrote:To be honest, sound cards are where I'm a bit shakey on my hardware experience -- how do I know if my onboard sound has EAX?

Pretty much any sound blaster card will have EAX.

Now, I don't want to get anyones hopes up because I'm not sure if Sofad and I can pull this off but what we want to do is make an extra sound for each weapon that we're going to call "ambient fire". Basically it's what you hear when a gunshot is really far away. Listen to any good combat footage with guns being shot in the distance, what you hear is more the environment reacting to the gunshot than the gunshot itself. Sounds like an echoey pop. The source mod insurgency did a great job on this.

The problem is that the BF2 engine only lets you assign multiple sounds to vehicles, not to weapons. But Sofad thinks he found a way around it

EDIT: This is what I'm taking about (link) Listen to the gunfire in the background.

MrD · Post by **MrD** » 2007-07-22 09:37

Does BF2142 have this sort of capability or are you going to be laying it all bare for their developers once the sound is "fixed" for the player experience?

When I just built this new pc for my Bro and installed it all, I found the audio was set to software/medium/EAX and I changed to software/high/EAX. It's an intel c2c board, Asus P5B. But I already notice the difference from even using my really old and crappy Soundblaster Audigy oem pci card, where loud noises can lag the game.

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-07-22 10:37

Looking forward to that ambient gunfire, will you 'move' the current sounds a bit back then, so shots 300 m away wont confuse people in thinking, that they're 30 m away

?

Post by **Jaymz** » 2007-07-22 10:42

Outlawz wrote:Looking forward to that ambient gunfire, will you 'move' the current sounds a bit back then, so shots 300 m away wont confuse people in thinking, that they're 30 m away ?

Killer-Ape · Post by **Killer-Ape** » 2007-07-22 10:53

NOTE: All users with EAX hardware (sounds blaster cards etc) ignore this post and use : Hardware / High / EAX enabled. Or in the case of X-Fi choose the appropriate option.

I hate my sound card... its a Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit. Just found out that it doesn't even support BF2 hardware audio rendering mode.. So not all Non-onboard cards are good!

Always check the BF2 readme.txt if the game supports your card, before you buy a new card..

Artnez · Post by **Artnez** » 2007-07-22 18:24

Thanks!!!!!!! I can't wait!

I had a feeling that this is what it would be.

If you guys could pull this off, it would change the game experience completely. WOOT!

TristanYockell · Post by **TristanYockell** » 2007-07-22 19:04

I have a Sound blaster Live 24 bit that has EAX, but when I set it up on hardware all the voices stutter.
So I have to put it on Software. I dunno what all thats about.

Wolfe · Post by **Wolfe** » 2007-07-22 19:17

What is the difference between Hardware & Sofware in the Bf2 audio options?

jackal22 · Post by **jackal22** » 2007-07-22 20:59

TristanYockell wrote:I have a Sound blaster Live 24 bit that has EAX, but when I set it up on hardware all the voices stutter.
So I have to put it on Software. I dunno what all thats about.

yeh i had this problem with my soundbalster card, when i installed some crappy update for it it crapped out and stuttered the voices. it never did before so i guess im going to have to re-install it and just leave it un updated.

yeh i hate technology it never frikin works >_>

Epim3theus · Post by **Epim3theus** » 2007-07-22 21:16

Thanks, I got scared out of my mind first becouse someone kept yelling "Grenade" loudly in my ear. Now í'm used to it, i've spend some time chasing sounds of ak-47's in the tall grass of Raid on Moskaya? too

I hope it works.

KP · Post by KP » 2007-07-22 21:39

TristanYockell wrote:I have a Sound blaster Live 24 bit that has EAX, but when I set it up on hardware all the voices stutter.
So I have to put it on Software. I dunno what all thats about.

Happens to me too. Can't hear a damn thing when the voices start going. Any of the sound guys who know something about this and how to fix it?