Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi front mic port not enabled in BF2

[GingerNinja.net]

Just to let you all know that there appears to be a bug with BF2 where it doesn't recognise that the LINE2/MIC2 connection should be used for voice even though Windows Audio Properties has this enabled as the recording device.

Haven't logged this yet as thought I should throw it out to the community to check my facts first.

VOIP works if I go around the back (steady!) but twiddling the knobs and sticking it in the front does nothing.

Yes - I am using 1.03 and the latest drivers from the Creative website.

[Gunny Highway]

Re: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi front mic port not enabled in BF2

This is what it says at the EA support site:

http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=10677&p_created=1122588784&p_sid=fBpdfNRh&p_lva=8986&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9OTMmcF9wcm9kcz03LDEwMDMmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0yLjEwMDMmcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9NA**&p_li=&p_topview=1

Question
Why doesn't a secondary microphone port work with VOIP?
Answer
Make sure that the microphone is plugged into your primary sound card's Mic 1 port. Battlefield 2 does not recognize secondary microphone ports. Secondary microphone ports include non-primary ports on your sound card as well as sound ports in the front of your computer and Live! Drive ports.

However in my old PC in BF2, I used a secondary front mic, but haven't tried in my X-FI yet though..

[Second Gunman]

Re: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi front mic port not enabled in BF2

I hadn't seen that post at EA........Why doesn't it work? Because it doesn't. Brilliant!

I've been complaining about this for months. I like using my Live Drive so I can adjust mic sensitivity while in-game. How hard is it to tell the game to leave my settings alone?? I have my pc configured the way I like it. I don't need or want your game changing my settings!