Heretic II 1.00 -- dunno. Try to disable a3dapi loading with ACT?
Heretic II 1.06 -- try to delete both a3dapi.dll files in the Heretic II directory (.\ and .\base).

Gamecollector wrote on 2020-12-14, 19:15:

Heretic II 1.00 -- dunno. Try to disable a3dapi loading with ACT?
Heretic II 1.06 -- try to delete both a3dapi.dll files in the Heretic II directory (.\ and .\base).

not sure what ACT is but I did delete the DLL and that did not work

Presbytier wrote on 2020-12-15, 04:53:

not sure what ACT

The Application Compatibility Toolkit. (I'm not sure if that's still a thing for Windows 10 or not? It doesn't come up very often anymore.)

Jorpho wrote on 2020-12-15, 05:31:

Presbytier wrote on 2020-12-15, 04:53:

not sure what ACT

The Application Compatibility Toolkit. (I'm not sure if that's still a thing for Windows 10 or not? It doesn't come up very often anymore.)

Well it is now part of the Windows ADK, but I could not see how using this would help me. I did download it and disabled compatibility just to see.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hard … ted/adk-install

I would recommend doing a reinstall of the game along with reinstall of ALchemy. If any registry keys were left for Heretic II after uninstalling, I would suggest removing that too. Because some registries go to the VirtualStore.

Edit: Tried A3D Alchemy and Creative Alchemy, didn't face any problems, the game played just fine. A3D loaded just fine as indicated by the logo. If there is a way to disable A3D ALchemy for Heretic II, it will help. A3D ALchemy only makes the game run and doesn't make much A3D options available since the dsound used there (IndirectSound) didn't talk about emulating A3D or EAX, neither did I find hear any such effects. What I would suggest is to copy the dsound.dll from Creative Alchemy, and paste it to where A3D ALchemy is present, in my case its in Windows/SysWOW64. This worked fine for me at least in GTA3 with A3D 1.0 enabled

Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2020-12-15, 06:10:

I would recommend doing a reinstall of the game along with reinstall of ALchemy. If any registry keys were left for Heretic II after uninstalling, I would suggest removing that too. Because some registries go to the VirtualStore.

Edit: Tried A3D Alchemy and Creative Alchemy, didn't face any problems, the game played just fine. A3D loaded just fine as indicated by the logo. If there is a way to disable A3D ALchemy for Heretic II, it will help. A3D ALchemy only makes the game run and doesn't make much A3D options available since the dsound used there (IndirectSound) didn't talk about emulating A3D or EAX, neither did I find hear any such effects. What I would suggest is to copy the dsound.dll from Creative Alchemy, and paste it to where A3D ALchemy is present, in my case its in Windows/SysWOW64. This worked fine for me at least in GTA3 with A3D 1.0 enabled

Just to clarify did you rename the dsound.dll to the a3d one or did you just replace the one in the syswow64 folder? Also yeah A3D alchemy uses indirect sound as it's backend so positional audio but no effects.

EDIT: Well did everything you suggested and the game does not launch 🤣 However I now see the A3D spalsh 🤣

Presbytier wrote on 2020-12-15, 14:56:

Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2020-12-15, 06:10:

I would recommend doing a reinstall of the game along with reinstall of ALchemy. If any registry keys were left for Heretic II after uninstalling, I would suggest removing that too. Because some registries go to the VirtualStore.

Edit: Tried A3D Alchemy and Creative Alchemy, didn't face any problems, the game played just fine. A3D loaded just fine as indicated by the logo. If there is a way to disable A3D ALchemy for Heretic II, it will help. A3D ALchemy only makes the game run and doesn't make much A3D options available since the dsound used there (IndirectSound) didn't talk about emulating A3D or EAX, neither did I find hear any such effects. What I would suggest is to copy the dsound.dll from Creative Alchemy, and paste it to where A3D ALchemy is present, in my case its in Windows/SysWOW64. This worked fine for me at least in GTA3 with A3D 1.0 enabled

Just to clarify did you rename the dsound.dll to the a3d one or did you just replace the one in the syswow64 folder? Also yeah A3D alchemy uses indirect sound as it's backend so positional audio but no effects.

EDIT: Well did everything you suggested and the game does not launch 🤣 However I now see the A3D spalsh 🤣

Replaced the a3dsnd.dll with the dsound.dll from Creative ALchemy.
Also DSOAL is compatible with A3D ALchemy, you could try that by coping the dsoal-aldrv.dll and alsoft.ini and rename dsound.dll to a3dsnd.dll to SysWOW64.

Either way game still refused to run with A3D alchemy installed.