Soundbug-Hear Waterfal everywhere Quinling

[Garack]

Battle of Quinling.

Waterfall to hear everywhere in map, even in vehicle.

No other map, Creative X-Fi Gamer, Sound settings ingame to very high.

No problem at other maps. no other mods installed. win xp sp2

[-=TB=-ante9383]

Set your audio settings to HARDWARE instead of X-FI. Worked for me - I have an X-FI XtremeMusic.

[sofad]

that worked for the "water can be heared overall" issue on qinling, ante?

[ReadMenace]

Set your audio settings to HARDWARE instead of X-FI. Worked for me - I have an X-FI XtremeMusic.

Did this result in a drop of overall sound quality? I have the X-FI F4T4L1TY or whatnot, and it has a variety of issues with BF2 and only w/ BF2.

-REad

[Sneak Attack]

i have the xfi fatality as well and i too have the water all over sound, but im not going to put my settings to hardware insted of x-fi i bought it so i can use it. none of the other maps have the issue, just that one so im guessing its a map thing. some rounds i dont have the problem but most of them i do.

[-=TB=-ante9383]

Whoa, sorry for the late reply!

Yes, Sofad, it did.

Although I have an X-FI and would love to use it at maximum settings, I cannot if I want to play Quinling.

Setting my sound to HARDWARE solved the crazy water noise on that map for me.

[=HR=Drayu]

correct me if I am wrong, but I thought hardware meant your audio card, isn't the X-FI an audio card? What am i missing here?

[MrD]

Sofad, that method about downloading, updating and replacing an OpenAL.dll file, I think it worked for me when I did it, but I've gone and reformatted my pc again. (XP, X-fi ExtremeMusic)

How about you find and post that info in a stickied thread in the technical section "FAO x-fi card users experiencing odd environmental sounds"

Strangely, I had used the most recent drivers available from the Creative site, yet the OpenAL.dll file seemed to be newer? or worked better?

[WeeGeez]

I have Xtreme GaMER Also...this also happens to me...althought its the waters edge i hear from everywhere...when i start the rund (on creat local game) its quiet...then i shoot or get in vehicle, and poof the noise of the water comes backkk

[Garack]

All latest drivers, will this be solved in 0.75 ? x-fi-gamer

[MrD]

Did you manually update the OpenAL file?

[Garack]

Did you manually update the OpenAL file?

How to do this?

[MrD]

On this page :

OpenAL - Downloads

You need this download for XP PRO SP2 :

View Articles

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

I put the three links above to show the path I went to by googling just now


Follow instruction, easy to do. Should fix your problems hopefully. It did for me (although with x-fi xtrememusic card)

[Garack]

didnt work. Still the waterfall...its a great map..grmbl..

[Garack]

Bug is still there with 0.75. manuell installation of openal do not solve this.

[R.M.S.1.3]

Hmm, odd. I thought I was the only one who had this bug. None of my squaddies ever reported having the problem and I was the only one on Vista, so I figured it was that.

@ MrD, I have an Extreme Gamer and run my sound at ultra high. Will that OpenAL update fix the problem for me? It's really annoying, and sometimes the sound just flat out freaks out on me and plays all the sounds being emitted like they're right next to me but with triple the gain. I think that's also the source for the random CTD's I get on that map. I don't really want to run a hardware setting for my card since I spent good money on it and want to use it.

Ugh, long post, sorry. Didn't mean to threadjack, but is there a solution for us Vista users? (and don't say "don't use Vista!", I like it too much)

[Garack]

Its not on vista i got the bug with XPSP2.-
It must be the creative Xtreme-Gamer card/drivers on ultra settings, cause this is what we have in common.

[-=shootmeplz=-]

After having problems with my xfi-gamer card on winxp sp2, especially with mediumdistance sounds from apcs and helicopters, i googled for a while and found this:

1. check bios for settings for your onboardsound, must be disabled.
2. download latest driver for x-fi card from Creative | United Kingdom | Customer Support: Downloads
should be version 2.15.0006 for all cards except of the x-fi-audio, which uses different driver.
3. run installation with automatic deinstall of old drivers.
4. once the new driver is installed, open up Creative audioconsole and do (following infos can be different for every x-fi-card and os)
4.1 click the (loud)speaker tab. uncheck the "synchronize with ms windows system". choose your loudspeakers. i strongly recommend to use stereo headphones to have best results. set SVM off.
4.2 click CMSS-3D tab. Check CMSS-3D Headphones. Macro FX automatic, highfilter on.
4.3 click the EAX effects tab. Check activate Eax effect, set slider to around 2.0dB
4.4 click the modus tab. set to gamemodus.
4.5 click X-Fi Crystalizer, activate it and set slider to 70%. this will enhance the intromusic .
5. now open up the windows soundcontrol-panel and set the loudspeakersetup to 5.1 or 7.1.
6. reboot your computer.
7. set ingame sound to eax and ultrahigh.
so what have we done now? the game generates surroundsound cause of the 5.1 or 7.1 setting in windows, out of this your x-fi-card generates the virtual surroundsound in your simple stereoheadphones (called CMSS-3D). this works really well and enhances the gameplay alot!
please give me feedback if this guide works for you. i will try to make it unspecific as possible.

Edit:

found more information about the openal-update.
1. download and execute the openal-installer as suggested before.
2. go to folder windows/system32 and find the OpenAL32.dll, copy it.
3. browse to your battlefield 2-folder and find the BF2OpenAL.dll, rename it to BF2OpenAL.bak (your backupfile now).
4. paste the OpenAL32.dll into the battlefield 2-folder, rename it to BF2OpenAL.dll.
5. start pr and enjoy!

please give feedback for confirmation!

[Garack]

Waterfall bug is still there i hear it everywhere on the map-.

[GeneralNorth]

last resort is to get medication. really.