a month ago, I had the chance to attend a small presentation by Warren Spector, he told us about it but at the time, he wasn't yet sure how to call it. System Shock 3 didn't seem right to him as he thought it would put off people that haven't played 1 and/or 2. As he was mainly talking about the …

Since we're dealing with compressed audio sources most of the time, I like to keep 3-6 dB of headroom on playback with a sample-based peak meter to avoid inter-sample clipping. -0.5 dBFS is still going to be clipping on conversion to analog audio unless your DAC has some internal headroom to prevent …

So there's no way to prevent it clipping with particularly loud tracks then, if the volume is reset on track change? When SC-VA loaded into a DAW (not SAVIHost) its processing is actually in 32bit floating point, so there is no clipping when you lower the fader volume no matter how loud is the …

Ah, I thought the VST plug-in's volume control was an internal processing volume level (presumably 32/64-bit floating point) and not the MIDI volume level. So there's no way to prevent it clipping with particularly loud tracks then, if the volume is reset on track change? Since you own the real …

Thanks again for the reply, and the attached MIDI file. I had found some MIDI tracks that were approaching clipping at the default volume, but none which actually did. I really wish that there were markings or that the plug-in told you the volume level as you adjust it. There seems to be 60 …

The problem that I'm running into is that the output from SCVA seems to be very quiet. I have to lower the sound effects in ZDOOM to about 30% for the mix to sound correct for example. Is that to be expected? Yes this is by design. When a lot of instruments playing together, SC-VA can actually …

So I've got this set up using the trial before deciding whether to purchase the plug-in or a used SC-55. I would much rather use the plug-in if it's truly comparable to the real thing since that lets me handle the analog conversion with modern hardware, instead of a DAC from 1991. The problem that …

Unfortunately I don't have access to an XP machine to test native compatibility. However all of the other Infinity Engine games use EAX effects and I've confirmed that Baldur's Gate 2 is working on this system. (and sounds great) I installed all the Realtek drivers and hooked it up, and I'm not …

It's an X-Fi Titanium HD. As far as I can tell, EAX isn't being used at all. I turned it up to +12dB in the control panel and I'm not hearing a difference. Same thing when I tested the software emulation - that usually sounds even more exaggerated.

I was wondering if anyone knows how to get ALchemy working with Planescape: Torment . ALchemy works with most games that I've tried so far (though sometimes there are audio glitches when using a hardware device) but Planescape: Torment doesn't give me the option to enable EAX. Dropping in …