I use ventrillo, and I like to segregate the BF2 sounds from the VOIP.  I have a sound card, but on a freak coincidence it does not work in my new system.  I'm on a really tight budget, so buying a new sound card is out of the question.

My onboard sound has 7.1.  In ventrillo I isolated voice in to rear speakers and have my headphones plugged into that.  The result is what I wanted: only my headset plays incoming voices.

the remaining problem is, I still get the game sounds through my headset.  Does BF2 have a way to set it so that it only sends game sounds to Front Right and Front Left speakers?

The default sound setting is "software".  I changed it to "hardware" and that did not fix it.  should I uncheck the other thing?

any ideas would be great

thanks