phil stanbridge Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Question about EAX - it can be selected even if your sound card does NOT support it - so does this mean something is broken? Other games (in fact every other EAX game I have seen) will only allow you to select EAX if it is available via hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 1C's EAX code supports up to EAX 3.0. I've seen up to EAX 2.0 selected with a non-Creative Labs audio setup, but then there would be errors listed in the "LOG.LST" file mentioning "invalid parameter in EAX preset". So its possible that you can make the selection, but the code really isn't checking if that is available at the time of the setting. Once the game loads, it then truly determines if you have EAX capabilities or not (or 'more accurately' determines the true EAX capability). The biggest advantage to the setting is 'turning it off' for people who have audio hardware that is truly EAX capable. If your hardware isn't EAX capable, then the setting is passed onto the game engine, but it will generate an error (not a game-ending one, but a logged error) when it doesn't really run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 I see! Well I've just had a look at that LST file and sure enough, it reads: Direct sound audio device initialized successfully : DX Version : 7 Hardware - disabled [buffers : 0] Extensions - disabled : EAX ver. 1 [ ] - disabled EAX ver. 2 [ ] - disabled EAX ver. 3 [ ] - disabled I3D ver. 2 [ ] - disabled ZoomFX [ ] - disabled MacroFX [ ] - disabled SIMD render [X] num channels 32 I'm using onboard 5.1 via Nvidia HDA apparently. But I don't think it's particularly good. I mean, the sound effects in game are superb, and really add to the atmosphere, but I'm having a few issues with they way they are rendered on my Shuttle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 With regards EAX in Kursk, does surround sound actually work? That might sound like an odd question but I have a 5 speaker setup here, correctly configured via Win 7, but Kursk only *appears* to use the front 2 speakers, (left and right obviously). Also, for me, the sounds are very muted. Is this how it is for everyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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