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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: 100Coogn on March 16, 2011, 04:42:05 PM

Title: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: 100Coogn on March 16, 2011, 04:42:05 PM

 Just wondered what people's preferences are to the in-game sound settings.  Does your game sound better with DTS, Dolby 5.1, Stereo or EAX. 
For me, I was using the Dolby 5.1, but today I'm trying the EAX 4.  It sounds pretty good, but I don't like all that echo that I hear.

 :airplane: Coogan

Title: Re: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: LCADolby on March 16, 2011, 04:45:09 PM

Get Dolby 7.1, the horde all shooting at you at once will make your pants wet!

As for the echo go into your windows sound settings and change everything away from default. 9 time out of 10 it's those settings causing echos etc.

Title: Re: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: Skuzzy on March 17, 2011, 09:34:20 AM

Applying any type of Dolby decoding is a waste of time as we do not encode sound at all.  Therefore enabling Dolby does nothing but waste more processing cycles checking for a Dolby signature in the sound, when the game plays it.

EAX actually interferes with the 3D positioning of the sounds in the game due ot how it alters the audio.

Aces High uses true 3D positioning, with no encoding.  All you have to do is set your speaker configuration, in Windows, and the sounds will play from the correct spot, at the correct levels.

Title: Re: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: guncrasher on March 17, 2011, 11:27:36 AM

skuzzy so what you are saying is we set up withing windows, then in game use windows configuration?

semp

Title: Re: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: Skuzzy on March 17, 2011, 11:44:15 AM

The speaker configuration, yes.

Do not apply any type of decoders to the audio as there is nothing to decode.  If you want to apply sound modifies, then just note that it could impact the 3D positioning of the sound.

Title: Re: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: 100Coogn on March 17, 2011, 11:46:30 AM

Quote from: Skuzzy on March 17, 2011, 09:34:20 AM

Applying any type of Dolby decoding is a waste of time as we do not encode sound at all.  Therefore enabling Dolby does nothing but waste more processing cycles checking for a Dolby signature in the sound, when the game plays it.

EAX actually interferes with the 3D positioning of the sounds in the game due ot how it alters the audio.

Aces High uses true 3D positioning, with no encoding.  All you have to do is set you speaker configuration in Windows and the sounds will all play from the correct spot, at the correct levels.

Thanks for the info. Skuzzy.  I didn't really like how the game sounded to me with EAX enabled.  That's probably why.

Coogan

Title: Re: EAX vs. Other Sound Settings
Post by: zack1234 on March 17, 2011, 03:10:46 PM

what is meant by decoders, I have realtek sound drivers is that the decoder? :old: