eddy on 1/5/2008 at 12:48
I just got my X-Fi Fatal1ty and noticed that all the HW mixing/EAX options in the thief 3 menu are greyed out.
Google didn't bring up anything useful about this problem.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
edit: oh well, already figured it out. I have a second sound card installed in my pc which I first had to deactive in the control panel.
bikerdude on 4/5/2008 at 08:12
Er actually you need Creative Alchemy - (
http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx)
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Alchemy will intercept DirectSound(EAX) 3D calls and translate them into OpenAL on the fly, thus allowing the Creative X-Fi to work its magic. Therefore, all games that are coded with EAX support will continue to play with it enabled on Windows Vista.
Most new games offer OpenAL as an option as well as EAX, T3 only offers EAX. Also OpenAL is a better technology than EAX and creative I believe already support it on the majority of their cards via the driver.
biker
EvaUnit02 on 5/5/2008 at 02:35
Bang on, Vista users need ALchemy. X-fi drivers already have OpenAL support by default.
Quote:
Most new games offer OpenAL as an option as well as EAX, T3 only offers EAX. Also OpenAL is a better technology than EAX and creative I believe already support it on the majority of their cards via the driver.
EAX technology operates on top of an API that bypass the Windows shell and gives direct access to the sound hardware, these APIs are DirectHAL or OpenAL. DirectHAL was removed from Vista.
Dux on 5/5/2008 at 14:25
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
Er actually you need Creative Alchemy - (
http://connect.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx)
Most new games offer OpenAL as an option as well as EAX, T3 only offers EAX. Also OpenAL is a better technology than EAX and creative I believe already support it on the majority of their cards via the driver.
biker
Ah, my mistake, you are right indeed!
