Is it risky to completly disable audio?

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As the title says, so battlefield bad company 2 freezes my PC whenever i play it for more than an hour( and it's not just me, a ton of people have the same problem), I've tried a couple of things but no luck, i read online that if i disable the audio(since punkbuster has problems with it...) it might work, and it has worked for a lot of people, i opened device manager and clicked disable BUT it said that it can malfuncion, what are the chances of it malfunctioning?
Also tell me about disabling audio from the BIOS.
I'm posting it here , since no one will reply if i post it in the games "forum"

[rojimboo]

What are your Specs?

It could be an overheating problem, if it is after an hour of game time usually.

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rojimboo původně napsal:

What are your Specs?

It could be an overheating problem, if it is after an hour of game time usually.

I was going to try it, but the game consumed my brain and I forgot.
Do keep in mind that the game freezes after a while for a lot of people.
gpu: geforce gt 520
cpu: pentium(R) dual core cpu e5700 @ 3.00ghz
memory: 4 GB ram
os: windows 7 pro
It's a beast, right?

[rojimboo]

Well, I personally have my onboard audio disabled in the BIOS. It varies surely from bios to bios, but it should be under "Onboard devices" and "Onboard HD sound" or something similar. Realtek probably. Have a browse through in your BIOS.

As to malfunctioning if disabled via Windows - I think it is if you RE-enable it again that you MIGHT have some issues, before rebooting.

Edit: What motherboard?

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rojimboo původně napsal:

Well, I personally have my onboard audio disabled in the BIOS. It varies surely from bios to bios, but it should be under "Onboard devices" and "Onboard HD sound" or something similar. Realtek probably. Have a browse through in your BIOS.

As to malfunctioning if disabled via Windows - I think it is if you RE-enable it again that you MIGHT have some issues, before rebooting.

Edit: What motherboard?

gigabyte g41mt-s2p i think
Also i use VIA HD,not realtek, also if i do disable it in the BIOS, what will it change? ( since you said that it's disabled in your pc)

[rojimboo]

Yui-nyan ^-^ původně napsal:

rojimboo původně napsal:

Well, I personally have my onboard audio disabled in the BIOS. It varies surely from bios to bios, but it should be under "Onboard devices" and "Onboard HD sound" or something similar. Realtek probably. Have a browse through in your BIOS.

As to malfunctioning if disabled via Windows - I think it is if you RE-enable it again that you MIGHT have some issues, before rebooting.

Edit: What motherboard?

gigabyte g41mt-s2p i think
Also i use VIA HD,not realtek, also if i do disable it in the BIOS, what will it change? ( since you said that it's disabled in your pc)

I have it disabled because I have an additional internal soundcard that is better that I use.

But I'm guessing in your case you would not have audio at all...? That is hardly ideal.

I also question this audio "fix" when you can play for an hour without issue.

It sounds like overheating to me.

Anyways, try disabling it in Windows. It should not malfunction. See if this "fix" works :)

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rojimboo původně napsal:

Yui-nyan ^-^ původně napsal:

gigabyte g41mt-s2p i think
Also i use VIA HD,not realtek, also if i do disable it in the BIOS, what will it change? ( since you said that it's disabled in your pc)

I have it disabled because I have an additional internal soundcard that is better that I use.

But I'm guessing in your case you would not have audio at all...? That is hardly ideal.

I also question this audio "fix" when you can play for an hour without issue.

It sounds like overheating to me.

Anyways, try disabling it in Windows. It should not malfunction. See if this "fix" works :)

Well if it does work, i will just disable it when I play, and enable it when I'm not...or Is it a bad thing? like disable-enable all the time?

[rojimboo]

Yui-nyan ^-^ původně napsal:

rojimboo původně napsal:

I have it disabled because I have an additional internal soundcard that is better that I use.

But I'm guessing in your case you would not have audio at all...? That is hardly ideal.

I also question this audio "fix" when you can play for an hour without issue.

It sounds like overheating to me.

Anyways, try disabling it in Windows. It should not malfunction. See if this "fix" works :)

Well if it does work, i will just disable it when I play, and enable it when I'm not...or Is it a bad thing? like disable-enable all the time?

No, you should be fine. Just you know, without audio in BF2 when somebody is sneaking up on you :)

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UberFiend původně napsal:

It's not at all risky to disable audio drivers.

For Battlefield games you might find it's only the HDMI Audio that comes with Nvidia or AMD you need to disable in Hardware Manager.

I think that you are talking about device manager, and i just opened it and in the sound category i have three like... "Options"
1.Nvidia High Definition Audio
2.NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device(Wave extensible) (WDM)
3. VIA High Definiot Audio.
So which one? Or all of them?