VOIP Problem

[alwo]

Hi,
I've been having a problem with VOIP during gameplay
I can get the first second of a message through but the rest is static (red symbol comes up meaning that no one else heard it). An example is saying 'Hi guys', Hi will be transmitted and everyone in my squad will hear it but 'guys' won't be heard by them. So holding the speak button, the comm signal goes green for about one second then the rest becomes red. Get the picture?
Now i've been fiddling around with the settings and i'm pretty sure the problem lies with me using the onboard sound on my motherboard. My motherboard is a ASUS A8N-E that has a Realtek AC'97 ALC850 Audio Codec that i use. Everything on my computer has the latest drivers, including my audio codec. But i want to be 100% sure that the problem lies with my onboard sound before i buy a proper soundcard, money is something i dont have alot of.
I can communicate with VOIP clearly in Counter-Strike:Source and can do the BF2VoiceTest and Mic test in the bf2 audio options without any problems.. it just doesnt work during bf2 gameplay.
Has anyone been using the Realtek onboard soundcard and been able to use the VOIP in BF2 during gameplay?
Thank you for reading this

EDIT by the way, i've read about other peoples voip problems but my problem seems to be kinda unique, that's why i created a new thread and not replied to one of those older threads... also, the last post on them are many months ago.

[Talus]

Re: VOIP Problem

Turn down your microphone recording volume in the Windows recording mixer.

I believe BF2 cuts off anything that it detects as being too loud. It probably thinks EVERYTHING you're saying is too loud and is cutting you off quickly.

[ptegan]

Re: VOIP Problem

I have the ASUS A8N-E also and while voip works in other games and teamspeak is perfect, voip in BF2 is a little weak. Either people can't hear me at all or else the speaker turns red and my comm gets cut off (BF2 thinks I'm speaking too loudly).

I too use the onboard soundcard but hoping to test a cheap soundblaster this weekend to see if it makes a difference.

[alwo]

Re: VOIP Problem

ic... i will definently try this out tomorrow morning when i get the chance to play some bf2.
but even if i dont speak into the mic, it goes from green to red in about 1 second...
thx talus

EDIT
i might try the same thing as you ptegan, im gonna take out soundcard on my older computer (unable to run bf2 coz of the graphics card) which has a creative soundblaster live DE 5.1 and i'll plug it into my new computer
thx

[ptegan]

Re: VOIP Problem

BF2VoiceTest works fine for me too but I found that I still had to turn the mic volumn down in windows to stop the speaker icon from turning red, but as I said, this resulted in people not being able to hear me !

[alwo]

Re: VOIP Problem

ok, here's the verdict
i tried lowering the transmitting volume with mic boost on but even if i put it at a ultra low transmit volume of 5% it goes from green to red in 1 second during gameplay.
i tried leaving transmitting volume at 100% with mic boost off and i could get green all the time when speaking but no-one could hear me. Even doing the Bf2VoiceTest, i could hardly hear myself.
Basicly, i'm screwed with the onboard sound... in a couple of days im gonna take out the creative live de 5.1 sound card outta my old computer and stick it into the computer with bf2... hopefully it will work. Also, it seems like it is a bug that dice/ea have made on purpose to make bf2 players buy creative soundcards. VOIP works perfectly on my computer with everything else including cs:source but it doesn't work with bf2...

[alwo]

Re: VOIP Problem

ok, here's my last update
i took the soundcard out of my old computer which had a Creative Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1 soundcard and placed it into my new computer. Also installed the latest driver for it and disabled onboard soundcard and uninstalled its driver. I have the settings in game at 100% transmit with mic boost on and capture threshold at the very bottom. I also have sound quality at high with EAX off and on hardware. It works. People can hear me loud and clearly so I'm glad to finally be able to use my mic in bf2.
However, although people can hear me clearly, I still get the red symbol sometimes during my conversation but I think they can still hear me.
Thanks for reading this.

[ptegan]

Re: VOIP Problem

alwo thanks for that but I found another solution.

run dxdiag, select the 'sound' tab and turn the hardware acc to basic. This solves the problem for people with Realtec 97 where VoIP seems too low/quiet.

[alwo]

Re: VOIP Problem

oh gosh
thanks for the tip ptegan... I cbf messing with my sound anymore as it is fine now.