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It seems to me like whilst akward to set up often, there VOIP in battlefield does function, and if you find the right squad it works great as a team aid, however I think 99% of trouble people are having, is fixable, just purely poor automatic settings on EA/Dices part.
You will notice on a server that works with VOIP, if you've left your microphone set up how it usually is (for teamspeak, yahoo, skype etc etc), that you are really quiet to all other players, for some reason, battlefield 2 has taken it upon itself to sample your audio at about 20% quieter than usually. Meaning you may find it always akward to use both at the same time, or one will tend to be too quiet / loud. However let us concerntrate on fixing battlefield so that works improving gameplay ten fold.
1. Goto battlefield 2, options / audio
2. Ensure VOIP is enabled!
3. Set Transmit and Recieve volumes to 100%
4. Enable MIC boost gain.
5. Turn microphone threshhold to 0% (this is 9 times out of 10 the problem as the setup wizard wangs this up high and crops alot of volume off).
6. Click microphone test, and speak into your microphone, the threshold bar should show a long green bar as you speak, and it will playback what you have just said, ensure this is easily audible. If it is, then great, when you now press your VOIP ingame, you can feel confident that people should be able to hear you ok.
[EDIT] if you find it too loud or distorted, then do the below but try set the volume lower instead of 100%.
7. However, if the test is still a bit quiet, not uncommon, as I've found with a few microphones I've tried.
8. Go back into windows (you can do this before you load battlefield and should need to do it only once). and click START, then press Run... and type sndvol32 (enter).
9. This will bring up the windows volume settings. You should see a microphone setting right away, however this is simply playback, which should be muted anyway (you don't want to hear yourself). So the volume can be left as is, INSTEAD, press options / properties. Press the recording radio button, then OK.
10. Ensure the microphone has the "select" tick underneath it, and that the volume is set to 100%.
11. Re-enter battlefield and repeat the test, you should now find it nice and clear. Ready for action.
12. One final tip, especially if you prefer to play on speakers than headphones and find it sometimes tricky to hear others amdist the sound of guns and bombs
. Got battlefield audio options and try turning down the effects volume to 80 or 90%, but leaving voiceover to 100%, then turn your speakers / headphones up with their master volume up a bit, this should help you hear others easier, even when the action is hot.
Good luck!
I'll be hearing you on the battlefield soon.
The Doover
You will notice on a server that works with VOIP, if you've left your microphone set up how it usually is (for teamspeak, yahoo, skype etc etc), that you are really quiet to all other players, for some reason, battlefield 2 has taken it upon itself to sample your audio at about 20% quieter than usually. Meaning you may find it always akward to use both at the same time, or one will tend to be too quiet / loud. However let us concerntrate on fixing battlefield so that works improving gameplay ten fold.
1. Goto battlefield 2, options / audio
2. Ensure VOIP is enabled!
3. Set Transmit and Recieve volumes to 100%
4. Enable MIC boost gain.
5. Turn microphone threshhold to 0% (this is 9 times out of 10 the problem as the setup wizard wangs this up high and crops alot of volume off).
6. Click microphone test, and speak into your microphone, the threshold bar should show a long green bar as you speak, and it will playback what you have just said, ensure this is easily audible. If it is, then great, when you now press your VOIP ingame, you can feel confident that people should be able to hear you ok.
[EDIT] if you find it too loud or distorted, then do the below but try set the volume lower instead of 100%.
7. However, if the test is still a bit quiet, not uncommon, as I've found with a few microphones I've tried.
8. Go back into windows (you can do this before you load battlefield and should need to do it only once). and click START, then press Run... and type sndvol32 (enter).
9. This will bring up the windows volume settings. You should see a microphone setting right away, however this is simply playback, which should be muted anyway (you don't want to hear yourself). So the volume can be left as is, INSTEAD, press options / properties. Press the recording radio button, then OK.
10. Ensure the microphone has the "select" tick underneath it, and that the volume is set to 100%.
11. Re-enter battlefield and repeat the test, you should now find it nice and clear. Ready for action.
12. One final tip, especially if you prefer to play on speakers than headphones and find it sometimes tricky to hear others amdist the sound of guns and bombs
. Got battlefield audio options and try turning down the effects volume to 80 or 90%, but leaving voiceover to 100%, then turn your speakers / headphones up with their master volume up a bit, this should help you hear others easier, even when the action is hot.Good luck!
I'll be hearing you on the battlefield soon.
The Doover
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