Vista Sound Issue Solution

[FVMAD]

As you all know MS disabled hardware acceleration of DirectSound3D in Vista, only OpenAL was left. This brings sound problems in games which are using DS3D/EAX.

 

Creative released ALchemy for their soundcards, which intercepts DS3D calls and transforms into OpenAL. This solution is well known.

 

But now Realtek at last developed their own alternative.

Most of the built-in soundcards are made on Realtek chipsets.

 

So here it is 3D Sound Back Beta 0.1 mirror1 mirror2

Edited November 16, 2008 by =FV=MAD

[Kuky]

ah, who's gonna install Vista now to test if it works and see if the lound engine sound I had in Vista is now gone... thanks for the info... maybe one day (more like never) if I install Vista again (yeah right) I'll give it a go :D

[hitman]

Ill give it a shot and report. And for the record, I have vista still.

[Prophet]

Well its good they are working on it.

 

For those with Vista and needing to use OpenAL, which doesnt solve the loud engine. Here is the solution I found.

 

Just wrap the engine up to afterburner, and then bring it back down. Kills the excessive noise for me.

[hitman]

These drivers seem to have fixed it. I will say that my frame rates have sucked BIG TIME, and Im having some visual glitches like crazy too. Ill try to reinstall lockon and see if its just on my end...but it didnt do that before.

 

Edit: it was on my end.

Edited November 12, 2008 by hitman

[PythonOne]

here's 2 stupid question.

 

1.) how do i install it? Drop it somewhere or double click setup?

 

2.) Can i uninstall it if it doesn't work.

[hitman]

You run setup, and youll have to uninstall your sound drivers if you want it gone. There are no issues that Ive encountered, btw.

[PythonOne]

So it does improve Lock On's sound?

[hitman]

To me, its easier to get rid of the annoying cockpit-engine bug on the ground, but doesnt seem to work in flight. Havent tried it in server yet.

[FVMAD]

So it does improve Lock On's sound?

 

I have a X-Fi+ALchemy solution - works perfectly.

3DSoundBack+RealtekHD works same way.

You just have to run this program and set root folders of games, with DS3D/EAX so it copies there DLL files which transforms DS3D calls into OpenAL.

[hitman]

You just have to run this program and set root folders of games.

Ok so how do you do that?

[FVMAD]

Ok so how do you do that?

 

run

C:\Program Files (x86)\Realtek\3D Sound Back Beta0.1\3DSoundBack.exe

or

C:\Program Files (x86)\Creative\ALchemy\ALchemy.exe

 

screenshots for Alchemy and 3DSB attached

[hitman]

Well that seems to have done the trick! Rep inbound.

[TheMoose]

Alchemy fixed my issues as well under vista. But that was one small step. Lockon FC has failed to often with the compatibility test, crash randomly, more over when using weather. Got tired of trying to fix this crap. The fix was Xp.:D

[hitman]

That sucks. You even have a perfectly good 400 dollar video card that cant do its job. Maybe Windows 7, eh?

[PythonOne]

Alchemy fixed my issues as well under vista. But that was one small step. Lockon FC has failed to often with the compatibility test, crash randomly, more over when using weather. Got tired of trying to fix this crap. The fix was Xp.:D

 

wait compatibility problems using this mod?

[hitman]

He was having issues with Vista long before this patch came out.

[BuzyBat]

Is this sound problem in Black Shark too ,or if it's not ,will there be a patch for Lomac soon?

I use the ,3d sound back, fix .But it's still annoying when I have to throttle full afterburner and back again to get rid of afterburner sound in cockpit.

For me the bug comes back if I change view ,like F2,and press F1 ,to get back into cockpit.

[FVMAD]

Is this sound problem in Black Shark too ,or if it's not ,will there be a patch for Lomac soon?

 

This issue is in every game which uses DS3D/EAX under vista.

 

I use the ,3d sound back, fix .But it's still annoying when I have to throttle full afterburner and back again to get rid of afterburner sound in cockpit.

For me the bug comes back if I change view ,like F2,and press F1 ,to get back into cockpit.

 

It just means that you installed it but didn't apply to the game.

OR you have a non Realtek HD chip

[hitman]

Well I know I did it right...it works some of the time for me.

[71st_Mastiff]

As you all know MS disabled hardware acceleration of DirectSound3D in Vista, only OpenAL was left. This brings sound problems in games which are using DS3D/EAX.

 

Creative released ALchemy for their soundcards, which intercepts DS3D calls and transforms into OpenAL. This solution is well known.

 

But now Realtek at last developed their own alternative.

Most of the built-in soundcards are made on Realtek chipsets.

 

So here it is 3D Sound Back Beta 0.1 mirror1 mirror2

your downloads dont work its asking for FTP passwords and ip

[FVMAD]

your downloads dont work its asking for FTP passwords and ip

 

Not surprised, my post is 7 month old. Try to use almighty Google :D

[FVMAD]

Here you go.

3D Sound Back Beta 0.1

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Realtek-3D-SoundBack-Beta-0.1-download-1996.html

http://www.ngohq.com/news/14322-3d-soundback-beta-0-1-a.html

[71st_Mastiff]

thanks I had been posting for a week now on lock on forums and there was only two threads, yesterday all the lock on threads decided to show them selves...

[71st_Mastiff]

Also don't know if this works for XP users but this did work for me if you own a Creative Labs Sound card or on board sound in side the Creative folder is a folder ALchemy run the ALchemy icon and you can add the Direct X games giving you issues this worked for me and other games that was giving me sound issues...

:thumbup:Thanks to 169th sqdron for this fix...

Edited June 18, 2009 by Mastiff