poroshin on 7/7/2008 at 14:28
Never seen this thread before, so thanks for the bump.
Question: I have integrated 7.1 sound I think (not sure, not home), and I have the EAX option greyed out. Is it possible to enable it with this fix?
baeuchlein on 7/7/2008 at 15:30
Quote Posted by poroshin
I have integrated 7.1 sound I think (not sure, not home), and I have the EAX option greyed out. Is it possible to enable it with this fix?
No one can tell you that for certain. There appear to be a lot of problems present with EAX sounds and the Dark Engine games.
My recommendation: Download a3d.dll, put it into the game's directory, then start the game. If EAX lights up now, the fix works for you.
If EAX does not light up, you can check whether hardware acceleration for sound is available at all. If it is, the fix does not work for you, and that's it.
If hardware acceleration somehow is not turned on, try to switch it on in the game. If that does work, try EAX once again.
If hardware acceleration cannot be turned on from within the game, try to switch it on in Windows. Unfortunately, there are several places where this option could be found (Device Manager, Control Panel/Audio, Control Panel/Multimedia, ...), and you have to look for that yourself.
If you find no way of turning on hardware acceleration, then there's no EAX for you. If you can turn on hardware support and EAX still does not light up even with a3d.dll in the game directory, check out option 7) in the first posting of this thread.
And if you have tried all this and EAX still won't light up, then forget about it. Sometimes, we're all just out of luck.
poroshin on 7/7/2008 at 16:33
baeuchlein, thank you very much for those detailed directions. I'll try it out tonight and let you know what happens.
poroshin on 7/7/2008 at 23:05
Nope, I put a3d.dll into the game directory but the EAX is still greyed out, and HA is set to off and can't be turned on. I tried checking Device Manager and Sound in the Control Panel and can't find anywhere where to turn it on. Also installed the eax3.exe with no result.
My soundcard is a SigmaTel High Definition Audio one.
KoHaN69 on 7/7/2008 at 23:18
I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz,
should't that support the A3D correctly out of the box?
I sitll don't understand what's causing the issue with the audio levels. :confused:
Digital Nightfall on 9/8/2008 at 20:01
I can confirm that this DOES work. I just tried it on a PC with an SB Audigy, where the sound was fine for 1 - 3 seconds and then cut out. Hardware acceleration was unselectable. After using this fix, everything is the way it should be.
ACatsPaw on 24/11/2008 at 08:54
I do not know if this is caused by the Sound problem in the DarkEngine, but as another user also experienced, I'm having "positional" stereo problems, where the guards may sound very loud - IF I face the right direction, and when making a little spin on my feet, they suddenly sound very low. I can make a 360 degree spin at exactly same location with guard muttering volume going up and down.
Besides that, in the tutorial/training mission, there's a Keeper learning you how to be "ninja"^_^ He's very low too, and I can't make out what he's saying. Then when you've avoided the light in the first test, and come up to the instructor of the test, he says soemthing like "Good, I did not see you approach" - I hear that loud and clear - But I can't hear the Keeper guy so good - Only the instructors that there is at each test. I can hear jumps and footsteps etc. but when Garrett speaks it's really low.
I tried placing the A3D.dll file in the System32 folder & renaming the A3D.dll in dllcache to A3D.dll_ - I've tried to put the file into the game folder too. I've turned Hardware Acceleration and EAX on, but it doesn't work:p
Couldn't/can't find the EAX file on goggle -
Thx for taking time!:cheeky:
sNeaksieGarrett on 5/12/2008 at 16:09
This fix doesn't work for me either. :( My computer already had the exact version I am suppose to have, a3dx5, 80.0.0.3 - Same size and everything. I even tried putting it in my thief 2 folder, as well as trying another version. No such luck. Probably why it does not work is because I have a cheap card that doesn't have true EAX, from what I have heard. Though I would think it would work in newer games with EAX. I think it's just not compatible with thief.
sNeaksieGarrett on 19/1/2009 at 20:23
i can't find this "eax3.exe" - can you link me to it, or send it to me?
