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GoldSrc engine plugin for 3D sound
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X-Fi Hardware Acceleration Crashes Half-Life when Loading Between Levels #67

Closed Daedalus0155 closed 6 months ago

Daedalus0155 commented 6 months ago

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Omit OpenAL32.dll
  2. Add MetaHook.exe to Creative Alchemy (this official software exists so X-Fi can provide EAX support)
  3. Start OpenAL Half-Life
  4. Start Training Course
  5. Progress until new level must be loaded
  6. Game crashes

Hardware Type: Creative X-FI Surround (USB), Model Number: SB1090

LAGonauta commented 6 months ago

Unfortunately only some PCI and PCI-E X-Fi cards support hardware acceleration, and Creative Alchemy shouldn't be used with the plugin as MetaAudio doesn't use DirectSound. I would say at best it has no effect, at worst the software OpenAL driver gets confused.

You are better off just using OpenAL Soft, while I do want to fix crashes with Creative's software OpenAL driver (sens_oal.dll) I don't have a card that uses that driver to test