I installed the sound blaster x-fi xtreme audio sound card in my comp and im having tons of problems in the game. I select hardware and chose high on the options for sound. Then in game the sound will be great but will cut in and out like mad. I select hardware at medium sound quality and the game crashes left and right. If i select the x-fi option in audio it says i dont have it. Any thoughts?

 

Thx Sheriff

Selct the XFi setting ...I believe it has its own.

sounds like there is a driver conflict. did u have onboard sound before? did u unistall the drivers for that and disable it in bios?

When i click on the x-fi setting it says it is incompatible with my system. I did have an onboard sound before. The X-Fi was installed at Best Buy. I'm not sure if they uninstalled the drivers or if they disabled it in bios? Would that be hard to expalin how to do or to check if they did it?

It's easy actually. You just need to get into your computers bios and look for onboard peripherals and see if it shows it's on or disabled. Look up a manual on the net for a manual for your mobo and it should say how to do it.

restart your computer. when it first starts press delete on the keyboard. It will enter a blue bios screen. use the arrow keys to look around until you find Onboard devices. or something of the sort. then there should be Onboard audio of some sort. click disable. exit saving your changes and you should be good to go. make sure not to touch anything you are unsure of. Or simply take it back to best buy and have them do it right.

It's easy actually. You just need to get into your computers bios and look for onboard peripherals and see if it shows it's on or disabled. Look up a manual on the net for a manual for your mobo and it should say how to do it.

Bones is correct. Go into your system bios and disable the on-board sound. Aslo, make sure you have the latest drivers and patches form Creative.

If you do everything they say and you are still having problems don't feel to awfully bad. In BF2, on a regular basis, I had to switch it back to X-FI settings manually. For some reason the game felt like it need to tell me that I didn't have an X-FI card in my computer, so that was the reason why it wouldn't accept the X-FI settings. Even though the day before I had it selected with ultra high settings.

 

I wouldn't be suprise if EA wasn't able to fix this problem for 2142. I have only had to do it twice with this game. I have talk to a couple of people that have had to do this on a regular basis almost.

Thx for the input. Working the third shift so ill try to fix it with your guys input later on tonight hopefully.

 

Thx again,

Sheriff