Post by PrivateParts on Aug 17, 2005 11:04:02 GMT
Audio
Audio Renderer: This setting determines the type of audio device which is used to playback the sounds in the game. The options are Software, Hardware and Creative X-Fi. The Software renderer is the most basic, and provides adequate, at times scratchy sound quality, but gives the best performance for most machines. The Hardware option should be chosen if you have dedicated sound hardware, and provides good quality audio with a slight performance drop. The Creative X-Fi setting provides the best audio quality and should only be used by people who own Creative X-Fi Hardware, otherwise selecting this setting will cause problems so leave it unticked.
In general, I recommend Hardware audio renderer if you have any form of sound card in your system and the option is available in BF2. Note however that many popular sound cards don't support this option in BF2 (See the Readme.txt file in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\Support\ directory for a full list.) If your card supports it I recommend enabling it - the positioning of sounds is a very important advantage in Battlefield 2, and having Software audio with low quality sound (See Sound Quality below) will make the sounds very unrealistic, and make it very difficult for you to determine enemy positions correctly.
Note, if using an Audigy 2 sound card install the latest drivers after you have installed the game.
Sound Quality: The options here are Low, Medium, High and Ultra High. Note that Ultra High is disabled for most people except those with very high-end sound cards. At Low, sound quality is quite poor, sounding almost like Mono instead of Stereo. Low is not recommended for the reasons given above, and because the performance difference between Low and Medium is not significant. As such Medium is recommended for most people, though High provides the best audio quality for a slight decrease in performance.
Enable EAX: If the Audio Renderer is set to Hardware, and you have sound hardware which supports Creative's Environmental Audio (EAX), you can tick this box to enhance the audio quality. Enabling EAX results in slight a reduction in performance, however the sound effects in BF2 become much richer and more realistic. Once again if you have hardware which supports EAX, I recommend you tick this box as it provides you with a good advantage in locating enemies for a minimal performance hit.
Game Volume: The Effects, Music and Voice Over sliders in this section control the volume levels of these particular audio effects. Set to suit your taste - note that reducing the sliders to 0% does not disable any of these effects, so there is no performance improvement from doing so. Play around with this to get a good compromise between TeamSpeak and the game volume.
English VO Only: If ticked, this option forces all players (enemy and friendly) to speak English and not their native language (chinese, mec) for voice overs (VO's). Ticking this box can improve performance slightly as less sounds are loaded into memory plus you'll be able to understand what your team-mates are shouting/orders etc.
Voice Over IP: If you want to use Voice Over IP (VOIP), tick the Enable box. VOIP allows you to use a microphone hooked to your computer and your headphones to speak to and hear conversations with other Battlefield 2 players on the same server who are logged into the VOIP network. Note that enabling VOIP can introduce more lag into your game due to the CPU overhead, and the additional bandwidth used - so untick the Enable box if you don't use VOIP. Because we use TS I suggest doing this.
[glow=red,2,300]Don't forget to click the Apply button when done changing the Audio settings to save your changes.[/glow]
Audio Renderer: This setting determines the type of audio device which is used to playback the sounds in the game. The options are Software, Hardware and Creative X-Fi. The Software renderer is the most basic, and provides adequate, at times scratchy sound quality, but gives the best performance for most machines. The Hardware option should be chosen if you have dedicated sound hardware, and provides good quality audio with a slight performance drop. The Creative X-Fi setting provides the best audio quality and should only be used by people who own Creative X-Fi Hardware, otherwise selecting this setting will cause problems so leave it unticked.
In general, I recommend Hardware audio renderer if you have any form of sound card in your system and the option is available in BF2. Note however that many popular sound cards don't support this option in BF2 (See the Readme.txt file in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2\Support\ directory for a full list.) If your card supports it I recommend enabling it - the positioning of sounds is a very important advantage in Battlefield 2, and having Software audio with low quality sound (See Sound Quality below) will make the sounds very unrealistic, and make it very difficult for you to determine enemy positions correctly.
Note, if using an Audigy 2 sound card install the latest drivers after you have installed the game.
Sound Quality: The options here are Low, Medium, High and Ultra High. Note that Ultra High is disabled for most people except those with very high-end sound cards. At Low, sound quality is quite poor, sounding almost like Mono instead of Stereo. Low is not recommended for the reasons given above, and because the performance difference between Low and Medium is not significant. As such Medium is recommended for most people, though High provides the best audio quality for a slight decrease in performance.
Enable EAX: If the Audio Renderer is set to Hardware, and you have sound hardware which supports Creative's Environmental Audio (EAX), you can tick this box to enhance the audio quality. Enabling EAX results in slight a reduction in performance, however the sound effects in BF2 become much richer and more realistic. Once again if you have hardware which supports EAX, I recommend you tick this box as it provides you with a good advantage in locating enemies for a minimal performance hit.
Game Volume: The Effects, Music and Voice Over sliders in this section control the volume levels of these particular audio effects. Set to suit your taste - note that reducing the sliders to 0% does not disable any of these effects, so there is no performance improvement from doing so. Play around with this to get a good compromise between TeamSpeak and the game volume.
English VO Only: If ticked, this option forces all players (enemy and friendly) to speak English and not their native language (chinese, mec) for voice overs (VO's). Ticking this box can improve performance slightly as less sounds are loaded into memory plus you'll be able to understand what your team-mates are shouting/orders etc.
Voice Over IP: If you want to use Voice Over IP (VOIP), tick the Enable box. VOIP allows you to use a microphone hooked to your computer and your headphones to speak to and hear conversations with other Battlefield 2 players on the same server who are logged into the VOIP network. Note that enabling VOIP can introduce more lag into your game due to the CPU overhead, and the additional bandwidth used - so untick the Enable box if you don't use VOIP. Because we use TS I suggest doing this.
[glow=red,2,300]Don't forget to click the Apply button when done changing the Audio settings to save your changes.[/glow]