Re: Steam Audio Rooms - Modern A3D Rooms
Posted on 2018-06-25, 15:49
Source code released 😀
Re: Half-Life OpenAL (surround and HRTF)
Posted on 2018-06-23, 19:08
Another version released! Version from commit number 5d46bab04d521987435be078967fc8d516762efb. Now there is occlusion support, device selection support, lots of fixes, the distributed Alure does not depend on libsndfile anymore (decode bug fixed!) and now I feel the reverb is EXACTLY the same as HL1 …
Re: Half-Life OpenAL (surround and HRTF)
Posted on 2018-06-19, 19:00
Just updated the plugin, now everything should be quite similar to HL1 sound output (but I really dislike linear sound attenuation, ugh. I should make a runtime option...). Now it uses Alure to help managing all OpenAL sound sources, and libsndfile to decode the audio files. Tested with OpenAL Soft …
Half-Life OpenAL (surround and HRTF)
Posted on 2018-06-06, 11:20
DO NOT USE THIS ON VAC SECURED SERVERS, YOU MAY GET BANNED. TO BE SURE USE IT WITH STEAM IN OFFLINE MODE. I was sick of the low audio quality and lack of surround/HRTF from HL1 and started looking to add OpenAL support to HL. I even started writing my own mod, but I forgot HL is C not C++ so I had …
Re: Sound card industry
Posted on 2018-05-19, 10:53
While porting A3D Rooms to Unity and Steam Audio I noticed that the CPU usage quickly shot up the more sources I added, especially with high quality HRTF and reflections, so non-CPU acceleration would certainly help.
Re: Steam Audio Rooms - Modern A3D Rooms
Posted on 2018-04-29, 21:07
Just finished importing everything and adding some scripts for all movement. As I did not have the real movement I made my own animation, and I tried to make everything feel authentic. Realistic reflections are overwhelming, they can get too intense. Thus I choose to reduce the reflections intensity …
Steam Audio Rooms - Modern A3D Rooms
Posted on 2018-04-28, 10:14
I believe most people never could experience A3D, especially its nice demos. While messing around with Unity and Steam Audio I had the idea to import the demos assets into Unity and add Steam Audio support for all sound sources, pretty easy. Currently I only imported the world geometry, but I am …
Re: Nvidia Shadowplay can't record any sound in EAX games.
Posted on 2018-01-14, 23:39
I believe you are using a Creative X-Fi with hardware OpenAL? You probably need to somehow set nVidia to record from "What-U-Hear", but it will be stereo only.
Re: Does Sound Blaster X-Fi provide EAX under Windows 10? What about Sound Blaster Z?
Posted on 2017-06-03, 19:40
cyclone3d is right, but only on Entertainment Mode this is true, while on Music Creation Mode this is totally customisable. On Game Mode, disabling EAX on the panel disables any EFX/EAX used by OpenAL. Enabling EAX on the control panel does not enable system-wide effects on this mode. By the way, …
Re: Does Sound Blaster X-Fi provide EAX under Windows 10? What about Sound Blaster Z?
Posted on 2017-06-01, 13:27
For those interested, I made a small program in C# to be able to use OpenAL, EAX and any other effect from the X-Fi DSP on any other audio interface (HDMI, Realtek). When I moved my computer to Windows 10 I also bought a Titanium HD as it has not only better audio but also better support for this …
Re: Does Sound Blaster X-Fi provide EAX under Windows 10? What about Sound Blaster Z?
Posted on 2017-05-15, 01:57
What does the sb z have over the x-fi? Probably better drivers for Windows 10, but overall the X-Fi is considered better (has hardware acceleration, EAX is more accurate (even though a CPU can make the same effects, Creative choose not to. Maybe to sell more X-Fis, who knows), has more outputs, and …
Re: Aureal Vortex: What was the last and/ or the most demanding game for it?
Posted on 2016-12-09, 01:00
I just tried NWN Diamond from GOG and A3D 2.0 on my Window 98 PC but all 3D sound seems to com from the right... DirectSound3D hardware has the best positioning. Anyone else has this problem? Maybe NWN is not really A3D compatible... Also, it does not require DX 8.1 as it works fine on my GeForce 4 …
Re: Aureal Vortex: What was the last and/ or the most demanding game for it?
Posted on 2016-12-08, 17:28
I just tried NWN Diamond from GOG and A3D 2.0 on my Window 98 PC but all 3D sound seems to com from the right... DirectSound3D hardware has the best positioning. Anyone else has this problem? Maybe NWN is not really A3D compatible... Also, it does not require DX 8.1 as it works fine on my GeForce 4 …
Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?
Posted on 2016-09-06, 13:07
My xonar has windows setting and "driver-only knowledge" separated. And.. I mean, it recommends you to set as much channels as possible in windows (since of course that's getting you the "most information" in the majority of software games), then tell him whether you are driving a bunch of speakers …
Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?
Posted on 2016-09-01, 17:14
(...) Talking about Mass Effect, FIY I'm doing a playthrough of it right now and I do have EAX support (quite evident in the Council Chambers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw20N5z-NG8), and I didn't have any problems on my X-Fi card (using ISACT audio device). The log merely mentions this: …
Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?
Posted on 2016-08-25, 10:40
Hello everyone! I've enabled EAX in Doom 3 with Alchemy and there's one thing that bothers me - there are no gradual transitions between rooms. The sound changes instantly to a different reverb preset when you go from one room to another and it kinda breaks the immersion. Was it like this on the …
Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!
Posted on 2016-07-11, 21:36
Sorry for the double post, but just today I was able to test the file edited by Kamerat. It is working perfectly! 😁 Thanks Kamerat 😀 Now I just need to discover how to use the gameport on DOS as I couldn't find a cheap PS/2 keyboard and mouse and it lags with USB 😜
Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!
Posted on 2016-05-28, 12:03
Your recordings of GM music actually sounds quite good. I have one Trident 4DWave-NX (the 7018 is based on 4DWave) card and the GM support is horrible, wrong instruments and hanging and dropping notes. I also, like lagonauta, have a SiS 630 based motherboard and it also refuses to use GM. Must be …
Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project
Posted on 2016-02-24, 11:25
I was able to test it today. Sadly it did not work for me on my Dell Turtle Beach Montego II 😒 I am using a Pentium 4 651 with 865G mobo, maybe it has something to do with this? I also have the control panel patch applied.
Re: Aureal Vortex2 Project
Posted on 2016-02-20, 18:34
Found an interesting fix for the pop and click issue under XP. It's caused by the driver polling all DMA buffers even if they aren't used and causes sample misses. It's even worse when the Sample Rate Converter is pitch adjusting sounds higher causing more frequent sample polls, thus we get the …
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