Hi all.
I got really bored out of my tree today and decided to look at my
list of tweaking and hacking tasks.
Since the major part of that list was really empty of jobs I went way
down and discovered the issue of playing sound in old games like
shades of doom and gtc right.
I can't find the actual article that inspired me to do this but its
on howtogeek somewhere.
Its something like how to get legacy games to run in windows with 3d
sound effects or something like that.
The article covered 4 manufacturers, creative, asus, realtech and
there was another I forget.
Firstly, eax1 and 2 as well as hardware exeleration just died in
anything over xp.
So you need something to convert it to the open al standard as this
avenue is open.
In some cases ie creative there is a program called alchemy, in the
case of asus its all in the drivers using a bit of software called zonos.
With realtech its 3d soundback.
If you have a soundmax or a via then you are probably out of luck
though and I am not sure about other cards.
Every bit of software has different procedures but I will start with
realtech since its what I know.
I am using for this my toshiba i5 c830 sattelite with 4gb ram win7 32
bit (x86).
Firstly I should warn you that though you get your 3d fx back, its
not really perfect, and you don't get to adjust things as you would
like it all depends on what emulation your manufacturer has put in place.
Firstly search google for the realtech hd audio codecs and there
should be a link to tywan which has the stuff, its the official site
realtech.com.tw.
Anyway you will be on a page.
scroll to the language box and if you are not an english speaker change it.
Firstly scroll down and click the checkbox for the licence and hit next.
You will get a bigger page.
The list comes up.
firstly I'd update your drivers you can do this if you want, but you
may not need to but they will appear.
At the end of the list of windows apps is 3d soundback 0.1 beta.
Its really old and I wander why no one tried to improve it.
download the file and save it in downloads or whatever.
open the downloads folder when it comes.
before that happens you will need to select the server, some servers
can be slower than others.
you have not many choices though.
2 asian servers.
1 europe server in uk and 3 us servers.
once you have the file downloaded.
go to your downloads folder I just run from winkey and r and go downloads.
there is a zip.
extract the zip how ever you want to the downloads folder.
it will create a folder called 3d soundback.
open that.
run the setup and just hit next till its done then finnish.
Now here is the tricky part.
hit start and type 3d.
3d soundback should come up.
right click the shortcut and go to properties.
you will want to run the program in compatability mode and then
select windows vista, not sp1 or anything just vista.
if you don't have the right version the game will not run at all.
hit ok.
in start type 3d again.
3d soundback will come up.
hit add and select the folders to add then change your buffer size
min range is 10
max is 99.
its almost done.
hit enable on each game you have added and you are done and ready to
rock sort of anyway.
The major drawbacks.
1. since this emulation when you get to wrapping points of menus and
a few other things it can sound really rough.
Also no matter what sound mode you choose in shades of doom or tank
omander, 3d mode is always on.
You will have to get used to it but at least it does work on 7.
Its a pitty realtech never completed their stuff but even so.
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