May I just drop in to say that I just found out about Indirect Sound and it looks phenomenal? As far as I understand it, I don't need any specialized hardware, just my onboard sound card for it to work properly, right? This is absolutely fantastic and an ingenious method of restoring 3D sound on …

oh hey, welcome back jonpol. Sounds like work on IndirectSound has resumed! :) Thanks! Work on it never really stopped, but the rate that changes happen definitely varies according to what's going on in the real world. :happy: The bulk of the past 6 months was spent, believe it or not, on a single …

-It was DirectSound3D specifically that got removed from the Vista sound stack onward. OpenAL remains unaffected. This is why wrappers like ALchemy work in the first place. DirectSound3D IS STILL THERE its just no longer done in hardware, its done on the cpu If it's still there, then why does every …

There's actually alot of truth to what jonpol says. Because of how Unreal engine's PlaySound works and how the player's Viewport is. Almost every sound the player makes is going to come from below and behind them because the camera is placed slightly higher and towards the front of their …

Replaying Deus Ex in Windows 7 led me down this train of thought. I am using an onboard Realtek ALC888 chipset, and have 5.1 speakers connected via three analog stereo jacks. Presently, I can not get surround sound to work in Deus Ex. I tried this thing called "IndirectSound," which sort of works, …

I don't know if this is the appropriate place or if anyone's interested, but I've released a new version: http://www.indirectsound.com/downloads/IndirectSound_0_10.zip All of the fixes in 0.9 and 0.10 were motivated by a volunteer user who wanted BloodRayne to work properly and helped me track down …

I guess that makes sense not wanting to deal with all of Creative's crap but as HunterZ said there are other providers: OpenAL Soft, Blue Ripple Sound, AeonWave, ASUS and maybe a couple others as well as Creative and that would allow hardware acceleration for the providers who have hardware that …

Creative Audigy/xfi (maybe recon) also have a similar wrapper (creative alchemy) the changes directsound calls to equivalent openal calls never had any problems with it Yeah, if you have ALchemy working then there is no reason to use IndirectSound. (I only wrote it when I finally ditched my X-Fi ;) …

Cool a DirectSound3D to XAudio2 wrapper plus faked support of EAX. But why use XAudio2, a proprietary Microsoft API, and not something potentially portable like linking to an OpenAL libary? :( Hi, I'm the author of IndirectSound. When I first started the project I was going to use OpenAL, but the …