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yourbestfriend   03-21-2006 at 02:46:46 PM

In the options screen there are two options for sound, software and hardware rendering. Does anyone know the exact difference? Does anyone use the hardware option successfully? and if yes what sound card and motherboard do you have?

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Aaron McKenna   03-21-2006 at 03:06:02 PM
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I use a an creative audigy zs and hardware it.

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BigMac   03-21-2006 at 03:36:06 PM
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Please check out forum announcements before posting. Thanks.

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Strangestranger   03-21-2006 at 04:07:50 PM
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don't want to encourage you posting in wrong places by replying but if you have a sound card choose hardware, as its always better. tbh im not too sure the exact differences other than it might be a software program is used to make sure the cpu can process sound data properly, while a soundcard has built in devices like DAC's to process them.

IMO it doesn't matter as bf2's options menu's are crap and the worst i've seen in any modern game. valve are the best probably, although civ4 had a good one to. the way bf2 options menu is setup you are never sure what hardware is referring to. it also doesn't say if it limits it to 5.1 or 7.1. it appears to me to be 7.1 but who knows. a complete shambles really.

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BigMac   03-21-2006 at 05:02:09 PM
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don't want to encourage you posting in wrong places by replying



Don't worry about that. I can move topics around. The problem I have is with starting topics in the old forums.

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chuckshissle   03-21-2006 at 06:07:44 PM
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I don't really hear the difference in both software and hardware. But I have the XF-i so thats my third option and I used that and it's way better than the two. :D

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llama_man   03-21-2006 at 06:49:48 PM
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Your soundcard is more likely to have all the all-singing-and-dancing EAX effects and whatnot on it, but how much effect this has on your aural pleasure (that's AURAL) will depend on how much effort the game designers put into writing the game to utilise said effects.

In theory, using a sound card should also relieve some of the strain on the CPU, although whether the effect is significant is a debate that I won't go into here (head over to the hardware forums...)

However, in BF2 (and most modern games to be honest) your system bottleneck is more likely to be GPU or RAM than CPU, so you probably wouldn't notice a difference in frame-rate.

Whilst we're on BF2, I noticed that when I installed BF2 it defaulted to software 8O - I don't think I've seen a game in ages that defaults to software. Very odd.

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Strangestranger   03-21-2006 at 07:01:03 PM
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like i say the options are crap and designed by prople who think it is 1995

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chuckshissle   03-21-2006 at 07:48:21 PM
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aural pleasure (that's AURAL)



Aural pleasure?! I don't what it is man, I just like to listen to some good music and sound though. Aural pleasure!? :? that turned me on :D :D :D

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