Can't make this work on Windows XP

pachuco / dsoal-XP

A DirectSound DLL replacer that enables surround sound, HRTF, and EAX support via OpenAL Soft. Windows XP compatible version.

GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1

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Can't make this work on Windows XP #1

Open bjb43 opened 3 years ago

bjb43 commented 3 years ago

Hi, first let me thank you for forking dsoal for winXP! I can use your provided binary without issues under wine (set to WinXP), however when I try it on actual WindowsXP SP3, the applications (in my case Rightmark3DSound and MaxPayne) fail to start (the logs indicate they can't find sound devices/enumeration). I've checked that my registry is set up correctly. Would you have any more hints for me as to what I can try to make it run under XP? Thanks a lot!

t9999clint commented 3 years ago

I've had mixed results so far...
sadly I don't have a copy of Max Payne at the moment to test with.

Works
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Serious Sam
Serious Sam 2
Star Wars Rouge Squadron - Can't actually tell if it's uses EAX
Star Wars Battlefront - Set to 7.1 audio first before you copy over the dlls
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
FarCry
MDK - A3D version works with A3D wrapper

Doesn't Work
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Star Wars Battlefront II - CTD on launch
Star Wars Republic Commando - Doesn't let you enable EAX
MDK II - Doesn't let you enable EAX
F.E.A.R. - Doesn't let you enable EAX
GRID - Crashes on launch

t9999clint commented 3 years ago

also it looks like Max Payne's compatibility is a upstream issue with the main DSOAL fork.
kcat#4

pachuco commented 3 years ago

Yeah, I definitely fucked up something somewhere and updated without checking. Stay tuned for further developments!

pachuco commented 3 years ago

dsound.zip

Try this dll. Should fix "err:dsound:lazyLoad Couldn't load dsound: 998"

I am under suspicion that the release dll triggers error for some and not others.

bjb43 commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much! With that dll, I can run e.g. RightMark 3DSound under WinXP without problems :), so that indicates to me that it is indeed working fine. I haven't tested many games so far, but I believe CS 1.5, MoHaa, JediKnight II work flawlessly! Also, I have no delay, which is great!

I'll test more games over the next days. Any particular games or tests I can help with?

pappyN4 commented 1 year ago

This also fixes audio glitch in Star Trek Armada under XP.

Previously I had to change the hardware acceleration in windows to "Basic" before playing to fix it, otherwise for speech during cut-scenes or ingame voices, it dropped words and squished the speech together. But with this in the gamedir it worked fine with XP64