EDIT: Ahh, you want to get hardware device ... is not possible, is possible only on Creative OpenAL, HOAL is NOT native Creative OpenAL, it's part of EAX emulation. So: Using Creative Software 3D Library Is normal emulated EAX. Can we all agree on this? Step 8 in this post seems to imply that all …

I now have the newest ALchemy and HOAL installed. Applied the patches again. SHA1 of dsound.dll after patch is: 14A4D8028DE795210CFB8E2D5BA7E0CEA8FAB9B6 Which is the same as yours. So something isn't working in the ALchemy chain. 😉

I posted how to hack this version few pages ago, but is DIY hex edit, I do not redistribute any files. If you mean this post : I downloaded the driver with the given name and patched the dsound.dll (version 2.4.2.10 from my ALchemy) and both Sens_oal.dll files (from the driver package). Also copied …

mirh wrote: @Andoi Are you using this? I was using the version which was supplied in the package, which was version 1.45.06. Now I installed 1.45.10, but still the error "audio device required by this application is not detected". Any further ideas?

Hello everyone! This has been a very interesting topic so far. Just some days ago I realized that my old games didn't have EAX anymore. The following research led me to this place. :) I followed the instructions in Click4dylan's post using his linked package. I took all steps: Renamed my default …