Bringing Back Aureal3d Audio?

mikjames on 16/1/2016 at 04:30

Is there any way to activate aureal 3d audio using modern hardware in the Thief games? I saw a few demos on youtube and it just sounded so much better than eax.

Kristijonas on 16/1/2016 at 14:47

Never heard of it. Why is there not even an option in game? How would you go about enabling it? I have EAX ready in my Thief games, but always found it a little too artificial post-effect sounding (but better than nothing). Would love to have an alternative.

Jax64 on 16/1/2016 at 16:21

Here try this:

(original Russian site) (http://www.worknd.ru)

(translated to English) (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.worknd.ru/&prev=search)

Download A3D-Live.exe.

TheDuriel on 17/1/2016 at 04:58

demo: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ng_bGozSo)

i guess its ok? dunno

Valet2 on 19/1/2016 at 04:53

With that a3d driver installed half-life stops running. Removed the driver - works again. Win7-64

Kristijonas on 19/1/2016 at 15:40

So you install this driver, then what do you do to actually make it work in game ?
Btw somehow sound stopped working in my Thief Gold game (with Tfix and HD texture mod), but I think it happened BEFORE I even installed the driver? O_o Any known causes?

Jax64 on 19/1/2016 at 15:52

Quote Posted by Valet2

With that a3d driver installed half-life stops running. Removed the driver - works again. Win7-64

I have that same system. The driver works for T1/TG/T2 on my setup. Haven't tried Half Life. It fully supports a3d audio. ((http://web.archive.org/web/20030212190019/http://www.vortexofsound.com/gamelist/gamelist-a3d.htm))

Have you tried tinkering around with Half Life's sound settings?

Jax64 on 19/1/2016 at 16:00

Quote Posted by Kristijonas

So you install this driver, then what do you do to actually make it work in game ?

In Thief's audio settings enable hardware excelleration, then turn EAX off(assuming you already have the a3d driver installed). The sound differences will blow you away. You should install OpenAL beforehand if you have not done so already.

Not sure why your sound stopped working though. I usually just reinstall if anything weird happens like that.

Kristijonas on 19/1/2016 at 16:37

Yeah I have openAL installed and use creative alchemy and it always worked. I also tried switching between Hardware, openAL and software, none returned the sound. I guess I'll just reinstall. Why do you have acceleration on hardware and not on OpenAL though?

Is your Half Life straight out of CD? Then it might be unpatched:
"Half-Life

The 1.0.0.9 patch fixed issues with A3D playback on some older Monster Sound cards. "

By the way, how do you know A3D driver installed for you? I noticed nothing new in device manager? Using Windows 10 with Omega Claro II sound card.

Kristijonas on 19/1/2016 at 19:38

I can confirm now:

Reinstalled Thief 1 + Tfix = sound works perfectly
Ran the A3D setup again = No sound in Thief 1 again.