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Clicks and pops in the audio while playing BF2 on my E1705

post #1 of 7
9/25/06 at 12:03am
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Anyone else get this or know how to fix it? My audio is normally fine, but in Battlefield 2 it clicks and pops like mad. I dont know how to fix this. Anyone had this problem?

Thanks.
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post #2 of 7
9/25/06 at 1:08am
The fix is to buy the Creative Audigy MB download, which is absolutly the stupidest thing ever. Basically, here, pay $20 for a working driver, as the standard ones don't work properly. And the $20 ones don't even work 100% of the time either. Bonus!
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post #3 of 7
9/25/06 at 3:21am
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Wow. So Creative Audigy MB is what I should search for on Dells site?
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post #4 of 7
9/25/06 at 7:02am
Yes, the Audigy MB upgrade will take care of the pops and clicks. Pretty crappy of Sigmatel to release a chip that "requires" a $20 upgrade just to sound right in games...

What you do is download the Audigy invitation from Dell's site. Install and run it. It will take you to a Creative site where you enter your CC, etc. and it will take you to the latest download and activate it for you.

Easy 'nuff
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post #5 of 7
9/25/06 at 9:01am
My sound went bad in BF2, but reinstalling fixed it. But I guess the problem could be deeper.
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post #6 of 7
9/25/06 at 11:29am
Actually the sound issue is not caused by the Sigmatel chip set. The problem actually is in the OPENAL audio library used buy BF2 and a bunch of other game's. The OPENAL audio library was created by Creative then released as open source. I read somewhere (sorry no link I will try and find it) that Creative fixed this in there software by forcing 44Khz audio at all time unless you where using S/Pdif which requires 48Khz. The problem seems to lie in the audio's library's handling of 48Khz audio. Which is why the Creative Audigy MB software fixes the problem.


Later,
Zyb
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post #7 of 7
9/25/06 at 12:00pm
Check here for instructions on updating OpenAL in BF2
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