zipr on 23/10/2006 at 01:33
I have an Audigy2 ZS with up to date drivers and I can't figure out how to enable EAX in Thief3. The options are there, but are greyed out. I found a review of the game through google and it said that the person was able to get it to work by manually changing an ini file. Does anyone know what I have to do to get it working?
(Oh yeah -- I also tried turning on and off the various effects in the Audigy EAX control panel -- didn't seem to do anything...)
Many thanks!
derfy on 23/10/2006 at 05:15
Did you enable hardware mode in the options? Should be right above it. If that's greyed out too, you might need to reinstall drivers.
zipr on 23/10/2006 at 13:03
I did enable hardware mode. But the EAX options still stay greyed out...
june gloom on 23/10/2006 at 23:33
when i activated hardware mode my game went silent. so iunno.
Dan on 24/10/2006 at 19:00
Quote Posted by dethtoll
when i activated hardware mode my game went silent. so iunno.
If that happens, it's a sign that there is something wrong with you windows audio settings( Im reffering to your sound card). This doesnt mean that your card is broken, but some settings are not OK. It usualy happens when you try modded drivers or do some tweaks yourself.
zipr on 25/10/2006 at 01:18
Problem solved: in my windows Sound and Multimedia control panel, the hardware acceleration was set to standard (which is the default) rather than full. When full was selected, I could enable all of the advanced stuff in Thief:DS.
june gloom on 25/10/2006 at 22:58
thing is, i'm using the drivers i came with and i haven't played with them.
i tried zipr's solution but everything is set to max already. i also brought up the sound tab in dxdiag, and it's on full HW accelleration too.
my soundcard is a soundMAX digital audio, could that be the problem?
DaNtAn on 29/10/2006 at 01:29
SoundMAX audio, can be found mostly on MOTHERBOARDS.
So from what I know most of the time, mobo sound cards, on the new mobos
support EAX 1.0/2.0 A3D 1.0 and Sensura's or Q-Sound's sound engine to
accelerate audio, they also support DX acceleration.
Thief 3 use DX acceleration and has no support for EAX 1.0/2.0.
Thief 3 supports only EAX 3.0/4.0 Which was on Audigy 1,2 and 4
Soundcards.
So to run Thief 3 in it's full glory you'd be better with an Audigy 4 (SE, would
do the job, it's about 55 $ CND, cheap :) )
Kaleid on 29/10/2006 at 05:33
Or better still, get an X-Fi.
Unfortunaly EAX support seems to have become worse and worse through the years. How amazing it was to re-install and notice how good audio a game like SS2 still has...I loves reverb.
