What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

[sav112]

Just like to say that I’ve been playing BF2 since day one and I could always get by on high settings but with the sound on medium as I was on a Asus onboard sound Chip.

Anyway My System
AMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Current Mode (Primary) : 1280x1024 32Bit
Ram 1024 MB
Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (Soundblaster X-fi Music)

What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new dedicated Sound card. It’s like a new game with all the sounds and now directional with my Headset. I can actually hear were the shots are coming from now with it on Surround. I had the game on high everything apart from lighting with the old set up now I can max everything out including sound with all the bells on EAX etc.


I recommend it to anyone, the game plays a lot smoother on my system, and keeps smooth even in the heaviest fire fight with explosions going off everywhere.


Lesson learned I should have got a sound card with my new system instead just used onboard. Well you live and learn.

[R.E.M.F.]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

lucky you, when i got my sound card and came home installed it turned off my onboard sound in bios and turned sound up to high in bf2 the game sounded great but the mic voices where garbled up so i turned it back down to low and havn't try'd since

[BoloMarkXXX]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

I just bought and built a new 64 system with a 6800 GT moved my profiles from old comp to new & max'd out the video setting & was so dazzled by my new graphics I forgot about sound. My old comp would crash on high sound with my SB Live! card, the new comp with same card runs on high no prob.
It makes a big diffence, play'd on med for 2 weeks before I cranked it up.

[sav112]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

I'll never neglect the sound again and just go with the onboard chip. It compliments the GFX card and CPU power. In SHIII its added about 20 FPS to take it just over 100.

I’ll build a new system the year after next as this one is just one year old but the sound card will be coming out and into the new one when I sell it on.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

I remember getting my Audigy2ZS installed for the first time, the difference was awesome.

[OMGWTFBBQ]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

how do you disable onboard sound?

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

Look in your system BIOS upon boot.

[JonnyMacFred102]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

The difference between sound settings on medium and on high is like night and day. The sounds are scratchy and fuzzy on medium, but clear and precise on high. All on hardware rendered.

[imported_Wreck]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

Look in your system BIOS upon boot.

Yeah it will be in integrated peripherals and is usually set to auto. Set it to disable if you have a pci soundcard.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: What a difference when I shut down the onboard Audio and used my new Sound Card

Exactly what wreck said, I should have included that really.