Best sound card & Headphones for Battlefield BC2

xonar dx with dolby headphone on DH-2 setting set to either headphone or hifi on game menu is mint, i use HD600 senns, also i add a slight lift 30,60hz for bass impact without distortion.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Sorry to interject, but I have some stereo cans and a Xonar DG.

What are the best settings for use on BC2?

Heaphone settings in game, plus Dolby Headphone enabled on the sound card?
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I believe this is correct still, however in reading some guides it appears in the settings ini file you can select how many speakers the game mixes for.

Setting this to '6' is correct for 5.1 setups which is presumably what you want the game engine mixing in for Dolby Headphones?

Any ideas peeps?
 
Cheers.

So, just to confirm.

I have changed the settings.ini file to 6 speakers.
In game I set the sound to 'Home Cinema'

On the DG, I set it to basically what Setter has his set to in post #16.

Thanks all. :)
 
You don't need to force the .ini file. It will automatically set the number of speakers to match the setting for Windows.
 
Yes but do you need a Home Cinema setup for it to detect that? I plan on playing the game using headphone with Dolby Headphones enabled. Windows would presumably not see that as a home cinema setup?

If someone could confirm that :)
 
Argh... everyone WAIT just a min.

The setting in the *.ini file does indeed set the number of speakers, however 0 is the default auto-detect setting and I suggest that you leave it that way! The game will then detect the number of speakers it's outputting to based on the windows speaker configuration settings.

The settings in-game, ie. "Hi-Fi", "War Tapes", "Small Speakers", etc. are nothing to do with the number of speaker you have. They are simply equalizer settings and the balance of the game audio compared to the background noise.

EDIT: Oh and they change the amount of reverb, too.
 
Global_Inferno said:
The setting in the *.ini file does indeed set the number of speakers, however 0 is the default auto-detect setting and I suggest that you leave it that way! The game will then detect the number of speakers it's outputting to based on the windows speaker configuration settings.
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Yes but as I said, if you're using headphones with Dolby Headphones, surely the game is NOT going to pick up a 5.1 home cinema system?

...and presumably it's going to benefit most from that being sent to the sound card otherwise it will just get stereo, and clearly surround sound can't do much with that except stereo trickey.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Yes but as I said, if you're using headphones with Dolby Headphones, surely the game is NOT going to pick up a 5.1 home cinema system?

...and presumably it's going to benefit most from that being sent to the sound card otherwise it will just get stereo, and clearly surround sound can't do much with that except stereo trickey.
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It's the soundcard that will determine the number of channels in the game.
 
I'm not sure that is true in this case. BC2 uses an entirely software based audio engine, unlike older games which often used the hardware.

It would be nice to know.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Yes but as I said, if you're using headphones with Dolby Headphones, surely the game is NOT going to pick up a 5.1 home cinema system?
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If you have the settings in windows set to 7.1, and in the sound card settings set to 8 Channels & headphone output, yes the game will automatically detect that you have a 7.1 setup (regardless of what you have attached to it!).
 
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