Sound Bug - while in Support Truck u hear someone reloading.

MadTommy · Post by **MadTommy** » 2008-01-07 13:32

Ok i've experienced this a few times now..

While driving a support truck you hear a SAW MG being reloaded behind you... it is unmistakable. I'm not sure what the trigger is but it is quite disconcerting. I rely on sounds an aweful lot.

This happened twice on Jabal last night when i was MEC CO.. it had me searching in totally random parts of the map.. but there was simply no one there.

My hardware is X-Fi with in game setting at Ultra High

Anyone else experienced this. (i did search)

Sprint · Post by **Sprint** » 2008-01-07 14:15

put in-game sund settting to high instead of ultra high

MadTommy · Post by **MadTommy** » 2008-01-07 14:50

Sprint can you please explain why.

Did you have this bug? and did it stop when you reduced your setting to High?

I'd prefer to have the odd odd noise and remain at my present settings.

I'm not complaining about this bug.. i'm simply reporting it.

MrD · Post by **MrD** » 2008-01-07 16:38

I'm hearing a sound loop that sounds like a car door shutting from time to time (or something similar) again x-fi extrememusic and highest settings and happens anytime.

And on Quinling, get freaky water sounds appearing randomly all over the map.

Post by **Pride** » 2008-01-07 16:53

Sometimes, when in a hummer, i get the really annoying charging sound of defibrilators going

diiiing diiiiing diiiing

I get out and move away and it stops

Sergeant_Banner · Post by **Sergeant_Banner** » 2008-01-07 17:02

+1 for the charging of the defibs >_<
Some times it happens when the HMMWV has flipped, and i try to exit and i cant, all i hear is "ziiiiiiiiig"

Not sure if i've encountered the SAW reloading ? *onboard sound, High*

Sarge

Onil · Post by **Onil** » 2008-01-07 17:48

the sound charging of defibs when the car is flipped or against a wall is not a bug, it's a representation of the vehicle situation that tells you that you cannot get out of it either because you had an accident and the doors were damaged or because the door is blocked by a wall or other object.

About the other sound bug, many people have sound problems with X-FI soundcards on ultra high settings... just change to high!

MrD · Post by **MrD** » 2008-01-07 19:07

I'll be changing mine down a notch next time I play. Hopefully it doesn't negate the purchase of the card. I have also noticed sound related lag which I can't understand recently as with onboard hardware, the card was supposed to remove that problem. Maybe again setting down a notch will resolve that too.

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-01-08 00:09

X-Fi doesn't play well with the BF2 engine, especially some of the sounds the PR DEVs have put in. Just life unfortunately.

Post by **sofad** » 2008-01-08 17:04

BloodBane611 wrote:X-Fi doesn't play well with the BF2 engine, especially some of the sounds the PR DEVs have put in. Just life unfortunately.

first i dont have any problems with my x-fi on ultra high for over a year now.
second, the sounds we put in, and we changed almost 90% of the vanilla sounds, CANT do anything to have a bad X-Fi experience in BF2/PR!

i would strongly recommend to update your open al wrapper:

download this!

a) Rename the OpenAL wrapper BF2OpenAL.dll in your Battlefield2 directory to something like BF2OpenAL.original

b) install the latest Creative OpenAL32.dll (see link above)

c) Copy wrap_oal.dll (version 2.1.8.1) from WINDOWS\system32 to your Battlefield2 directory.
Check with properties that it really is the latest OpenAL library from Creative.

d) Rename the copied file to BF2OpenAL.dll just to finish clean

of course its also always a good idea to have the latest drivers for your sound card installed:

european creative driver download

american creative drivers download

MrD · Post by **MrD** » 2008-01-08 18:35

I turned my x-fi settings down a notch, but it didn't improve sound lag, in fact seemed to get worse.

I've just done the above, so will check some time if that improves thing. I did recently install latest drivers from the Creative website (never use the discs supplied, usually 2 years old drivers!)

MadTommy · Post by **MadTommy** » 2008-01-09 20:27

BloodBane611 wrote:X-Fi doesn't play well with the BF2 engine, especially some of the sounds the PR DEVs have put in. Just life unfortunately.

yeah blood i cant agree with this at all.

I'm with sofad.. x-fi / ultra high.. i've been very happy with it for a year now.

MrD · Post by **MrD** » 2008-01-09 20:55

ok, some playing last night and the sound problems appear to have gone away. I took Sofad's advice with downloading that OpenAl wrapper file, installing and copying files around and it seems to have solved it. Although only played one map Kashan, so yet to test it on other maps. Seems a shame I had to do this when I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from Creatives site recentl.

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-01-10 04:25

The quinling sounds, and the fact that there are people with very expensive soundcards reporting sound issues, leads me to believe that my earlier statement was correct. I realize you like your expensive sound cards, and that you're probably getting much better sound than me 99.9% of the time. Just saying that there are reported issues with X-Fi cards, rare as they may be.