DarkPlaces & Surround Sound

[drivetheory]

OS: Win7x64
SND: Creative X-Fi

anyone found a working combination of Creative ALchemy settings that sounds good?

I got ALchemy to work with DarkPlaces, and my 5.1 speaker setup is giving me directional sound in-game...
but it just sounds terrible. sounds noticeably cut out and/or are just outright missing while gaming...

it makes me want to say screw it and just use the 64-bit version of DarkPlaces and run in stereo...

my current ALchemy settings are the default settings;
Buffers: 4
Duration: 25
Voice Count: 128

anyone else tried running DarkPlaces with Creative ALchemy and have some settings or tricks/tips they want to share?


I've also seen that DarkPlaces engine hasn't had a "stable/official" release in going on a year now... maybe a switch to a directsound alternate (OpenAL? Miles? etc?) would be in the best interest of the project development. idk, not a programmer but so far the sound is the only quirk i've experienced with DP... supporting up to 8 directsound channels doesn't really seem like a benefit since directsound was dropped back when vista came out...

[Baker]

Have you tried both DarkPlaces.exe and DarkPlaces-SDL.exe?

[drivetheory]

thanks for the quick reply Baker.
I just tested out both EXEs and the difference is like night and day.
DarkPlaces.exe + ALchemy = sounds terrible (Especially noticeable using the super nail gun)
however, DarkPlaces-SDL + ALchemy = sounds pretty much perfect, the super nail gun rate of fire + corresponding sounds are indistinguishable from the way it sounds without ALchemy.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I bet when a Ogre initially goes "Arrrrg" when he see's you is fn crazy in surround sound

[sb306]

I bet when a Ogre initially goes "Arrrrg" when he see's you is fn crazy in surround sound

Wow. Sounds like it would be pretty cool.