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Plain and simply I have come to a conclusion, using an xfi extreme gamer card - by turning on the surround sound it can cause undesirable effects...

With the surround sound on it is almost impossible to get a general direction of vehicles which are in plain sight - its almost as if you hear double surround sound.....

I'm new to running the game @ ultra high, so this may be my problem

When I turned off 3D surround sound from my video card control panel it sounded normal again and I could detect where vehicles are in a "swivel" your head like fashion to hear say, an aircraft coming from your west, where before it was coming from ALL OVER :S

Simply if you have the same issue of vehicles sounding all over instead of one general direction, I would recommend turning off your sound cards option for 3D surround sound when playing PR. That is all!

Well, I've got surround on and experience no problems at all.

Check your connections etc, make sure everything's wired up right?

I'd try dropping the sound quality to HIGH - 0.7 and X-Fi cards on Ultra High have been experiencing some problems - I was getting lag issues on some maps - and dropping it to High seems to have solved it without badly damaging the quality of the sounds.

your surround speaker are installed and checked correctly, right?
then go into your X-Fi control center and you find something like cmss3d or like that (cant check for myself right now, cause im at work). turn it off. thats a virtual additon of non existing speakers to your sound, wich creative thought would be cool, but it isnt.
turning off these virtual speaker system should solve your problem.

and additional, like usual my advice:

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