Yeah, and not only did they remove A3D (as mentioned above), but they ALSO removed the Direct3D graphics renderer. Odd that they'd remove existing features though.
However, CMSS may accomplish what you want, and that isn't tied to any specific game - it's just a feature of the soundcard (I forget, however, if Live! supports CMSS). 😵Īnd no, ALchemy isn't meant to run within XP, nor would it "fix" the issues under Vista/7/etc - if EAX is unavailable within a game it won't do anything. You should be able to run in surround sound without EAX is my point.
Of course, the stereo 2-channel positional sound data is still in these games.ĮAX isn't tied to surround sound - it's an effects API that exists as a superset of DirectSound 3D. So there wouldn't really be any choice/option for me to re-enable 4-channel sound (as I'm assuming that Creative Alchemy doesn't run under Windows XP).Īlso, even with Alchemy from what I understand Valve also totally removed the (existing) 4-channel positional sound information from the code and GoldSource engine, so how would Alchemy be able to translate/decode sound coming positionally from your front or rear without this special positional data that the previous versions of the GoldSource games (internally) provided? Thanks for the detailed explaination for that 😀 Yeah, I was already semi-familiar with that, but the thing is Valve totally removed the options for EAX in the sound options menu with their early-last-year updates to all of the GoldSource games, and I have an SBLive running under Windows XP.
0 kommentar(er)
