First Strike Forums — Sound crackling fixed... found the culprit

Re: Sound crackling fixed... found the culprit

null@example.com (Mr.Fork) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:25:57 +0000

The NIC I was using (PCI) was causing the sound issues. After searching the BF2142 support forums - hundreds were having this issue. The issue is not NIC performance, it was NIC interference in the sound.

Re: Sound crackling fixed... found the culprit

null@example.com (Markus) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:14:12 +0000

totaly depends on what NIC card you use. there are some made just for gaming, working beter then any internal NIC.
but how can you think using a NIC card would be beter is you didnt even look at your specs

Sound crackling fixed... found the culprit

null@example.com (Mr.Fork) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:37:37 +0000

For a lot of Creative Audigy owners (I have a Audigy 2 ZX), Battlefield 2142 has been a bit of a PITA. During the map loadings, and main menu, we get loud sound crackling as if our speakers were busted, especially during FSMOD.

I noticed for me it was during the lobby area mainly when the hard drive was active. I thought it might be related to a memory conflict between the SATA mobo, my hard drive, and the game memory space it uses.

But that's not it.

Turns out my 3COM NIC card was to blame all along. I thought that by using a PCI NIC card, it would help speed up my internet connections. Turns out that's not entirely the case. Using the integrated NIC on my computer is actually faster because it's designed into the motherboard making digital transfer faster than a PCI slot.

I decided to use my integrated NIC card because it's a 1Gb using newer technology than the older 3COM, and its faster. When I loaded First Strike, there was no crackling in the sound - it was all crystal clear. WOO HOO.

SO, if you have crackling sound, and you are using an PCI network interface card, toss it and use the integrated/built in.