how in the hell do you get EAX audio to work on modern systems

>>11850715 (OP)
Creative Alchemy, if you have one of their modern sound cards you can even get 3, 4 and 5 working
(do now that all of this is software emulated and not true EAX, which you can only do before Vista)

>>11850720
You can still get hardware-accelerated EAX even on Windows 11 with the right setup. You'll need a card which actually supported it in hardware though, unlike the newer Sound Blasters that simply emulate it. The X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty cards with the EMU20K1/2 chip can still be wrangled into working on Windows 11, which support every version of EAX in hardware.

Realistically it's not worth it for most people. You can get most of the way there with DSOAL and OpenAL. Some things still just don't sound right (or work at all) without original hardware though.

>>11850786
how do i install dsaol? I placed the github files in the game folder like it says, but eax is still greyed out in game

>>11850869
If you got the game from gog they sometimes remove EAX support

When do the patents expire for EAX?

I'm seriously lost, I've followed multiple tutorials and cannot get any result with dsoal

>>11850937
Which games did gog supposedly remove it from? I’ve never encountered that so far and it doesn’t make sense that they’d go out of their way to do that in the first place

>>11850786
everything from Vista on has no hardware layer for audio though

>>11850715 (OP)
>>11850786
there's a prog called "3DBack" which works even if you don't have discrete sound card. more or less.
but there's a good reason why EAX got dropped. it's buggy as shit and keeps crashing or gives you bluescreen-o-death.
>>11851196
this. nothing to do with Gogs poland people.

>>11850786
Creative's tech haven't been relevent for decades. and they pretty much left the EAX shit to die and never promote it or shill it to devs, once their soundcards got overtaken for faster CPUs.
Creative literally spent a decade or 2 making crappy chinknese educational tablets in literal china, instead of making soundcards.

MIDI's got more relevent current tech, but most people hate "chiptunes".

>>11851293
There are quite some good games that had it, it's only EAX 4 and 5 that didn't get used around much

>>11851183
Not that guy but I just noticed it grayed out in Sands of Time

I used OpenAL to play FEAR and the exp packs with EAX. Win10 here

>>11850937
Are they just not including the dlls because the might cause more harm than good on modern systems?

>computer, use eax
>"yes, m'lord"

>>11851535
have you tried it by adding it to Creative Alchemy?

>>11851560
>Are they just not including the dlls
No, it's more like they can't (or at the time, couldn't) include things like DSOAL without express persmission to do so

>>11851569
>Creative Alchemy
I have integrated Realtek chip, so no. I don't think it's supposed to work this way. Tried to supplant dsound.dll from dsoal in place of eax.dll which I believe to be main culprit, and it doesn't seem like it changed anything either; Maybe spatial effect is a bit different? The option is still grayed out.

https://github.com/kcat/dsoal
Just drop the two dlls into the folder with the game exe and it just werks.

>>11852032
>enable EAX in Civ 4
>it just adds a bunch of echo to unit dialogue
t-thanks

>>11852135
Disable unwanted effects and throw resulting alsoft.ini into the game folder, that's what I did with obnoxious echo in Thief
https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft/releases/latest

>>11850715 (OP)
>sound with vision
Fuck that's a good slogan

>>11851582
Don't they already use cracked executables for their releases?

>>11852168
>source: it was revealed to me by some slav in a dream