REALTEK 3D SoundBack Beta 0.1

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3D SoundBack Beta 0.1

(Realtek 3D SoundBack restores audio effects, including surround sound, reverberation, and spatial effects, for legacy game titles when running on Windows Vista.)

It looks like Realtek guys are doing a fix for a few games. Let's see how it goes!

http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/...&GetDown=false

klambre

Tested in COD4, alow missing EQ efects and work fine

Lovely play it with headphones and virtual 5.1

RejZoR

Cool. ALchemy like feature for Realtek users.

vindassius · 07-19-2008, 09:13 | posts: 495 | Location: Manchester UK | User is Offline

wowiee gonna give this a try

"What's the worst that can happen?"

vinda hears the Dr. pepper music start to play

MrBozack · 07-19-2008, 17:38 | posts: 556 | Location: East Anglia | User is Offline

hmm... so what is it? A3D? EAX2?

Fluxeor · 07-19-2008, 18:10 | posts: 60 | Location: Edinburgh | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by MrBozack

hmm... so what is it? A3D? EAX2?

It's basically Realtek's version of Alchemy, it'll enable the use of EAX1/2 (and i guess A3D, assuming the realtek chips support the decoding) in Vista for games that should support EAX1/2.. no idea if it actually works well though since i'm using an X-FI XM + Alchemy rather than my onboard realtek chip

xsan · 07-21-2008, 03:24 | posts: 4 | Location: Poland | User is Offline

It really works

Finally have 5.1 sound in Mass Effect

RejZoR

What about EAX ? I'm have ADI sound chip now so i can't test it (I still use X-Fi as primary though).

TR_Forge · 07-21-2008, 11:33 | posts: 46 | Location: KOP, PA, USA | User is Offline

Are they wrapping to OpenAL or some proprietary funk?

I really hope the former. While it's a Creative designed and driven standard, it is a standard and it is open. Two out of three ain't bad.

MrBozack · 07-21-2008, 12:47 | posts: 556 | Location: East Anglia | User is Offline

Well.. I tried it with Guild Wars.
The EAX sounded the same as Audigy2 - but the quality of audio and volume wasn't as "beefy".

..but yes, seems to do EAX fine.

ROBSCIX · 07-21-2008, 13:30 | posts: 10,560 | Location: Guru3D Audio Lab | User is Offline

These drivers must perform a procedure similar to the GX 2.0 drivers for the Xonars from ASUS.
Those driver simply intercept the outgoing Directsound calls and translate those calls to effects parameters that can be used by their sound effects engine which would be software.

damien666 · 07-21-2008, 15:14 | posts: 9,172 | Location: nottingham, uk | User is Offline

does this work with my onboard sound

GreyAlien · 07-21-2008, 15:22 | posts: 4 | User is Offline

Partial success so far. They cause NWN 1 to crash when I select either EAX 1 or EAX 2. NWN 2 on the other hand functions fine on EAX2. Will test other games later.

ROBSCIX · *Last edited by ROBSCIX; 07-21-2008 at 16:56.*

How do the effects sound? I would guess it is much better then 2.0 with no effects at all..

Krakkan · *Last edited by Krakkan; 07-22-2008 at 11:17.*

Im no expert at these things but i tested a couple of games i had..

NWN2: EAX1 and 2 works for me, disabling soundback removes the EAX options. Sounded like

but ive never used EAX before..
WC3 and TFT: 3D provider could not be installed error.
Mass Effect: No eax option? Take it its automatic, in that case there was no difference.
C&C 3+KW: Same as Mass Effect.
COD4: dito.. Heard no difference at all.
Oblivion: Something happened in the menu, sounds awesome! Creating new game or loading makes it crap out an error message though..

All the games i had installed atm..

AmigaWolf · 07-22-2008, 13:53 | posts: 113 | Location: Holland | User is Offline

Will it work with a Realtek ALC883 ??

I hope so.

tux_topo · 07-22-2008, 14:34 | posts: 42 | Location: Argentina | User is Offline

Anyone knows if there will be a Windwos XP release?

stormy · 07-22-2008, 14:50 | posts: 2,230 | Location: Toronto, Ontario | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by tux_topo

Anyone knows if there will be a Windwos XP release?

And why would you need it? XP hasn't had DS3D removed.

projectx · 07-22-2008, 15:02 | posts: 17 | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by tux_topo

Anyone knows if there will be a Windwos XP release?

from what i know, xp does not need this as eax supposedly works fine in xp. but since vista changed the way drivers can access hardware, eax doesnt work in vista, and this program is supposed to re-enable the function

*edit* wow, i type too slow (really slow), stormy beat me to it...