The x-fi doesnt support Q-sound
according to the link it does support eax (depends if thats true)
theres no mention of eax on the games website or on the game box

Davros wrote on 2020-01-07, 22:57:

The x-fi doesnt support Q-sound

Are you sure Q-sound requires hardware support?

Qsound is not an API, it's more like an audio engine, I believe. It does not automatically mean 5 discrete audio channels (more often it does not mean that at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSound )

If the game does support discrete surround channels then it'll do it through either OpenAL or DirectSound in Windows environment, for which you've already tried Alchemy and didn't get anything so most likely there's no discrete channels in this game, more like "surround effects" by means of HTRF or something like that.

Zoomer wrote on 2020-01-10, 18:45:

Qsound is not an API, it's more like an audio engine, I believe. It does not automatically mean 5 discrete audio channels (more often it does not mean that at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSound )

If the game does support discrete surround channels then it'll do it through either OpenAL or DirectSound in Windows environment, for which you've already tried Alchemy and didn't get anything so most likely there's no discrete channels in this game, more like "surround effects" by means of HTRF or something like that.

Thanks for explanation.

Ok, i'm stupid/inattentive - there IS surround sound positioning (just not in usual way, like voices from central speaker etc), you just need to proceed a little further in the game. Without any Alchemy or other magic. upd - nope, Creative Alchemy need to be enabled in Win10 or no surround sound!