swaaye wrote:

Yup 2041 is probably the best driver.

Yeah. And also they don't have reversed left/right channel bug. And yeah, agreed on X-Fi headphones. You even can hear elevated effects on it (when the source is higher or lower than you). By the way I do think this is a legacy of Aureal, although people claim Creative never developed on those technologies.

I have a firm opinion that Unreal supports A3D 2.0 is a myth. As of version 224, this is among the known issues :

Epic wrote:

If you enable "Advanced Options / Audio / Use3DHardware" through the menus and you have a 3D sound card with Aureal A3D 2.0 drivers, you won't get any sound acceleration. A3D 2.0 (geometric environmental audio processing) support is still in development and testing, and will come later, but the temporary side effect is that 1.0 support is disabled.

Aureal v224 release notes :

http://software.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/fre … ml/readme01.htm

There are no release notes for v225 and there is no mention of the anything like A3D 2.0 support in v226 Final, according to the release notes :

http://gamecentralnetwork.net/?id=1940

However, there is a reference to Unreal Tournament v420, but I have not been able to find the release notes for that version. I think it extremely unlikely that Epic would have fixed it; otherwise it would have been announced.

Aureal A3D 2.0 support was broken in the Unreal 224 patch, but later fixed in Unreal 226 patch.

Half Life and Unreal were the best examples of Aureal A3D 2.0 support.

Great Hierophant wrote:

However, there is a reference to Unreal Tournament v420, but I have not been able to find the release notes for that version. I think it extremely unlikely that Epic would have fixed it; otherwise it would have been announced.

Not even this?

leileilol wrote:

Great Hierophant wrote:

However, there is a reference to Unreal Tournament v420, but I have not been able to find the release notes for that version. I think it extremely unlikely that Epic would have fixed it; otherwise it would have been announced.

Not even this?

Good find, and I see nothing in those notes regarding A3D.

Kirben wrote:

Half Life and Unreal were the best examples of Aureal A3D 2.0 support.

My experience with A3D in Half-Life hasn't been great. I was able to hear sounds from the other side of the map. I hope it's just a driver issue that can be solved.

silikone wrote:

Kirben wrote:

Half Life and Unreal were the best examples of Aureal A3D 2.0 support.

My experience with A3D in Half-Life hasn't been great. I was able to hear sounds from the other side of the map. I hope it's just a driver issue that can be solved.

I've only tried it with Uplink, found everything to sound muffled... there are some settings one can apparently try. Quite likely that different game/driver versions will give varying results, but I'm not aware of anyone having sit through testing all of this out and documenting it 😀

The Unreal Tournament box has an A3D logo on it, and none of the notes for that game up to v4.20 indicate that support was removed, so it stands to chance that Unreal v2.26 does have A3D support restored. However, this does not prove A3D 2.0 support.

Great Hierophant wrote on 2013-11-27, 02:26:

The Unreal Tournament box has an A3D logo on it, and none of the notes for that game up to v4.20 indicate that support was removed, so it stands to chance that Unreal v2.26 does have A3D support restored. However, this does not prove A3D 2.0 support.

I realize that this thread is very old, but I think this might be relevant information. I recently stumbled across a console command list for Unreal Tournament '99 and this one caught my attention: s_wavetracing. If you type that into the console, it will output the current status of A3D 2.0 wavetracing. I tried it with Unreal Gold (retail CD version, no third-party patches etc.) and got this:

This was tested on my Turtle Beach Montego II sound card (Aureal Vortex 2) under Win98SE and with the following settings in Unreal.ini:

1UseSpatial=True
2UseReverb=True
3Use3dHardware=True

The Unreal.log file also shows that A3D 2.0 hardware has been detected and initialized:

1Log: Bound to Galaxy.dll
2Init: Galaxy is using DirectSound
3Init: Aureal A3D 2.x 3D sound hardware found!
4Init: Galaxy initialized
5Init: Unreal engine initialized

So it looks like A3D 2.0 is functional in Unreal Gold at least.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-04-24, 07:08:

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Great Hierophant wrote on 2013-11-27, 02:26:

The Unreal Tournament box has an A3D logo on it, and none of the notes for that game up to v4.20 indicate that support was removed, so it stands to chance that Unreal v2.26 does have A3D support restored. However, this does not prove A3D 2.0 support.

I realize that this thread is very old, but I think this might be relevant information. I recently stumbled across a console command list for Unreal Tournament '99 and this one caught my attention: s_wavetracing. If you type that into the console, it will output the current status of A3D 2.0 wavetracing. I tried it with Unreal Gold (retail CD version, no third-party patches etc.) and got this:

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This was tested on my Turtle Beach Montego II sound card (Aureal Vortex 2) under Win98SE and with the following settings in Unreal.ini:

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1UseSpatial=True
2UseReverb=True
3Use3dHardware=True

The Unreal.log file also shows that A3D 2.0 hardware has been detected and initialized:

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1Log: Bound to Galaxy.dll
2Init: Galaxy is using DirectSound
3Init: Aureal A3D 2.x 3D sound hardware found!
4Init: Galaxy initialized
5Init: Unreal engine initialized

So it looks like A3D 2.0 is functional in Unreal Gold at least.

I snatched this card recently, and I just tested on a base W98 installation with Unreal 1 226 from a CD installation, and it worked exactly like you described. It requires changing Unreal.ini

I have the original Unreal CD, and I recall there was an option to setup A3D 2.0 from the start. On the Gold version it didn't show up, but changing the .ini did the trick. Thanks for sharing!