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TheProfiler   02-09-2007 at 11:07:31 AM

I installed Vista beta drivers (no officials yet), adn I can enable 5.1 surround and EAX in control panel, but in any of my games (NWN2, Medieval2, Oblivion, etc) EAX is disabled, hardware unrecognized. Is there a workaround for this?
Thnx

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pkellmey   02-09-2007 at 11:33:38 AM
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Currently, this is an unsupported feature.

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aBg_rOnGak   02-09-2007 at 12:24:19 PM
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Vista support openAL ,but not EAX,bad news dude

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NeoRecon   02-09-2007 at 04:07:25 PM
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Check out creative's ALchemy project. They are working on a tool that will allow EAX for older games that don't support OpenAL. I'm going to give it a whirl once I get my PC put together.

http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

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uncle_ben   02-09-2007 at 06:50:29 PM
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ALchemy translates DX into Open AL so that you still have hardware accelerated audio and EAX under Vista. It supports major releases from last few years. I have seen some guys at nvnews tested it with loads of games,
there was some decent gain in FPS in a few games

... see if I can find the bloody link...

*ben_is_looking_for_the_bloody_link*

Here it is:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/sh [...] ?p=1151826

Good Luck

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Xazax310   02-11-2007 at 05:18:21 AM
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Hmm im in the same boat as your guys, had X-FI music with XP switched over to Vista, and now find myself using a 2.1 speakers instead of my 5.1 :cry:

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