sharangad wrote on Yesterday, 15:21:

This is the Audigy RX, which Creative doesn't promote as an Alchemy compatible device. On their site they list the Audigy fx (re […]
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shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 14:29:

Honestly, I never knew that the dsound.dll file had sound card IDs written inside it; I thought it was universal. […]
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UCyborg wrote on 2025-09-21, 14:10:

My old desktop can't go beyond 23H2 due to CPU requirements.

Honestly, I never knew that the dsound.dll file had sound card IDs written inside it; I thought it was universal.

It's not entirely relevant, but it's Windows 11 24H2 (26100.6584) + Titanium HD PCIe + Daniel_K driver pack.
The log file doesn't contain any errors, only "Using Native OpenAL Renderer."

This is the Audigy RX, which Creative doesn't promote as an Alchemy compatible device. On their site they list the Audigy fx (realtek based) as being compatible along with the pci audigys and all the x-fis and all the new stuff (z/ae etc) . The rx they promote as a musician's card.

The using "native openal renderer" message is there when using alchemy universal with the rx. It's also there with some games with regular alchemy, but it's preceded by "error initialising dsound using default sound.dll"

[EDIT]
Feedback from someone running a pci Audigy on win11 24h2 might be useful at this point.

We have two Audigy rx users experiencing the problem.

https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/
Audigy Support Pack 8.1
rename .exe to .zip or .rar or 7z
Extract dsound.dll from Audigy_SupportPack_8_1.exe.7z\Audio\ALchemy\bin .cab\Targetdir
And try

shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 16:37:

https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/ Audigy Support Pack 8.1 rename .exe to .zip or .rar or 7z Extract dsound.dll from Audigy_S […]
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sharangad wrote on Yesterday, 15:21:

This is the Audigy RX, which Creative doesn't promote as an Alchemy compatible device. On their site they list the Audigy fx (re […]
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shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 14:29:

Honestly, I never knew that the dsound.dll file had sound card IDs written inside it; I thought it was universal.

It's not entirely relevant, but it's Windows 11 24H2 (26100.6584) + Titanium HD PCIe + Daniel_K driver pack.
The log file doesn't contain any errors, only "Using Native OpenAL Renderer."

This is the Audigy RX, which Creative doesn't promote as an Alchemy compatible device. On their site they list the Audigy fx (realtek based) as being compatible along with the pci audigys and all the x-fis and all the new stuff (z/ae etc) . The rx they promote as a musician's card.

The using "native openal renderer" message is there when using alchemy universal with the rx. It's also there with some games with regular alchemy, but it's preceded by "error initialising dsound using default sound.dll"

[EDIT]
Feedback from someone running a pci Audigy on win11 24h2 might be useful at this point.

We have two Audigy rx users experiencing the problem.

https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/
Audigy Support Pack 8.1
rename .exe to .zip or .rar or 7z
Extract dsound.dll from Audigy_SupportPack_8_1.exe.7z\Audio\ALchemy\bin .cab\Targetdir
And try

With NFS HS, no DS3D/EAX only stereo and mono (with the DanielK dsound.dll):

1Loaded G:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed Road Challenge\DSOUND.ini
2
3
4DirectSoundCreate : Failed to initialize Creative ALchemy, falling back to dsound.dll
5
6Using Native OpenAL Renderer

It's the same with Alice, though the game reports EAX2 as being available.

With Alchemy Universal:

1Loaded G:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed Road Challenge\DSOUND.ini
2
3
4Using Native OpenAL Renderer

No, it doesn't work with the latest Audigy Support Pack' Alchemy either (that's driver pack I'm using now). But, since it does work with the Universal Patch (1.45.20) and use the Audigy's native OpenAL (so the hardware acceleration works), I can live with that.

shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 16:37:

https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/ Audigy Support Pack 8.1 rename .exe to .zip or .rar or 7z Extract dsound.dll from Audigy_S […]
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sharangad wrote on Yesterday, 15:21:

This is the Audigy RX, which Creative doesn't promote as an Alchemy compatible device. On their site they list the Audigy fx (re […]
Show full quote

shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 14:29:

Honestly, I never knew that the dsound.dll file had sound card IDs written inside it; I thought it was universal.

It's not entirely relevant, but it's Windows 11 24H2 (26100.6584) + Titanium HD PCIe + Daniel_K driver pack.
The log file doesn't contain any errors, only "Using Native OpenAL Renderer."

This is the Audigy RX, which Creative doesn't promote as an Alchemy compatible device. On their site they list the Audigy fx (realtek based) as being compatible along with the pci audigys and all the x-fis and all the new stuff (z/ae etc) . The rx they promote as a musician's card.

The using "native openal renderer" message is there when using alchemy universal with the rx. It's also there with some games with regular alchemy, but it's preceded by "error initialising dsound using default sound.dll"

[EDIT]
Feedback from someone running a pci Audigy on win11 24h2 might be useful at this point.

We have two Audigy rx users experiencing the problem.

https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/
Audigy Support Pack 8.1
rename .exe to .zip or .rar or 7z
Extract dsound.dll from Audigy_SupportPack_8_1.exe.7z\Audio\ALchemy\bin .cab\Targetdir
And try