Possible Fix for EAX Problems in Unreal 2

[BoomAM]

Hi,
I`ve noticed that alot of people, including me, have EAX crashing Problems in Unreal2, Just like the ones in UT2003.
I remember that in UT2003 i fixed it by slightly changing a setting in the UT2003.ini file. The same setting is in the Unreal2.ini file as well. So it may fix it in Unreal2 as well.

BUT THIS ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE OPENAL32.DLL IN YOUR SYSTEM32 DIRECTORY.

Goto Unreal2.ini , open it.
Find a section that says
[ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]

under this will be another setting, that says
UseDefaultDriver=True.

When set to True, it uses the sound wrapper (Defopenal32.dll)provided by the game to produce the sound, but at the expense of CPU time.
When set to False, It uses the sound driver (openal32.dll) from your system directory to create the sound, which will have been coded to use the hardware acceleration of your sound card. Getting rid of the performance loss/constant crashing problems.

Also, theres a setting that says
Use3DSound=false, i presume that it enables full 5.1 speaker support, so if someone can get back to me on that please.

Im not guaranteeing that it`ll work, i havnt tested it myself yet, but IMO, if it works for one unreal baced game, it`ll work for another.

Hope This Helps People. Get back to me with your results.

 

[BoomAM]

Hi,
Ive tested the fix and it seems to work. I managed to play through the whole of the hell section of the game fine, without a crash. The only problem that i can now see, is that the sound for the shotgun doesnt always play. 9 times out of 10 it does, but that one time, it fires silent. Not too bad i suppose. Prehaps a patch from epic will fix the original problem, and the shotgun sound thing.
Has anyone here tryed the fix yet? or tryed to see what "Use3DSound" does?
Oh and, my fps went up by 10fps. I now average about 40fps (1280x1024@max).

***Edit, ive found out that its not just the shotguns sounds that dont work propely, in one of the missions, you cant hear issac or adia or ne`bac talking***
I`ll try somethings to sort it though.

 

[ROTC1983]

Bump since I just crashed to my desktop when I enabled EAX...

 

[BoomAM]

Did you try the fix?
I cant guarentee that it`ll work on everyones machine, but it works on mine.
The "Use3DSound" Setting seems to do nothing, and occasionally i still get speach or sound effects missing, not all of the while though, not enough to distract you from the gameplay.

 

[BoomAM]

The missing sounds thing, aint a problem with Unreal2, ive noticed that it happens in JK2 as well when EAX is enabled. No as often though.