Lord Myn wrote on Yesterday, 15:45:

Hello,

I've just bought an Audigy 5/RX PCI-E soundcard, but when I tried to use an EAX supported game ( I set it in Alchemy) there are no EAX effect, and dsounlog.txt has a line: DirectSoundCreate : Failed to initialize Creative ALchemy, falling back to dsound.dll. Can you help me to make it work?

I've installed Alchemy 1.45.20 & OpenAL and set EAX effect in control panel to 'No effects'.

Find ALCapsViewer 32 and 64bit utility
This is a Creative utility that checks the correctness of OpenAL files, registry entries, and hardware compatibility.
Separately for X86 and AMD64 targets

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file … 5-openal-tools/

Thanks, it's a handy tool, it shows my SB Audigy device OK:

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System Information
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Report Time: 2025/9/20 10:55:36
BIOS: ALASKA - 1072009 3208
Processor: ~4342MHz AMD Ryzen 5 8600G w/ Radeon 760M Graphics
Memory: 32 GB
Default Audio Device Name: SPDIF Out (Sound Blaster Audigy 5/Rx)
Audio Driver Filename: {0.0.0.00000000}.{419ff71e-5da9-43cd-ba44-e49155f95449}
Audio Driver File Version:
Audio Driver Product Version:
ALCapsViewer Version: 1.0.3.0

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OpenAL Components
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Name Path Real Path Version
OpenAL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OpenAL32.dll 6.14.357.25
ct_oal.dll C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ct_oal.dll 6.0.301.63
wrap_oal.dll C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wrap_oal.dll 2.2.0.7

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OpenAL Devices
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Name: SB Audigy 5/Rx [EFC0]
Sample Offset: Yes
Linear Distance Model: Yes
Exponent Distance Model: Yes
Capture: Yes
Enumeration: Yes
EAX 2.0: Yes
EAX 3.0: Yes
EAX 4.0: Yes
EAX 5.0: No
X-RAM: No
Enumerate All: Yes
EFX 1.0: Yes

Name: Generic Software
Sample Offset: Yes
Linear Distance Model: Yes
Exponent Distance Model: Yes
Capture: Yes
Enumeration: Yes
EAX 2.0: Yes
EAX 3.0: No
EAX 4.0: No
EAX 5.0: No
X-RAM: No
Enumerate All: Yes
EFX 1.0: Yes