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EAX Advanced HD Audio for Thief: Deadly Shadows for Thief: Deadly Shadows

EAX Advanced HD Audio for Thief: Deadly Shadows

Overview

Enables EAX Advanced HD Audio

What’s this for?

This patch will enable old EAX spatial and enhanced audio for Thief Deady Shadows.
Tested on my Realtek ALC295 chipset.

Yes, will work fine with game unofficial patches (Sneaky Mod etc…).

But what is EAX Audio? See YouTube videos like this (reverb is a bit exaggerated in this video IMHO but gives you an idea):

How to…

  • you should have OpenAL[www.openal.org] already installed…
  • go to DSOAL – True 3D Sound for Headphones[www.nexusmods.com] and download the File (or see below in this guide for latest DSOAL build). We just need the files: do not follow the NexusMods guide!
  • copy dsoal-aldrv.dll, dsound.dll, alsoft.ini (you can edit this*[raw.githubusercontent.com]) to “Thief Deadly ShadowsSystem” directory where the T3Main.exe is located
  • add these keys to the Registry (save the text as a file ‘ThiefDSOAL.reg’ and double click it to merge it with Registry):
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{47D4D946-62E8-11CF-93BC-444553540000}] [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{47D4D946-62E8-11CF-93BC-444553540000}InprocServer32] @=”dsound.dll” [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{3901CC3F-84B5-4FA4-BA35-AA8172B8A09B}] [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesCLSID{3901CC3F-84B5-4FA4-BA35-AA8172B8A09B}InprocServer32] @=”dsound.dll” [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesWOW6432NodeCLSID{47D4D946-62E8-11CF-93BC-444553540000}] [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesWOW6432NodeCLSID{47D4D946-62E8-11CF-93BC-444553540000}InprocServer32] @=”dsound.dll” [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesWOW6432NodeCLSID{3901CC3F-84B5-4FA4-BA35-AA8172B8A09B}] [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREClassesWOW6432NodeCLSID{3901CC3F-84B5-4FA4-BA35-AA8172B8A09B}InprocServer32] @=”dsound.dll”
  • reboot
  • enable in-game Options > Audio Hardware Mixing. This will finally unlock EAX Advanced HD and EAX Multiple Environments
  • if needed, go into your Windows speaker’s properties and untick “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device”

    That’s it. Enjoy! 🎉

    🔥 LATEST VERSIONS OF DSOAL BUILD 🔥

    [link]
    dsoal-r418a.7z 2021-Feb-23 06:26:09 643.1K application/x-7z-compressed

    Much improved stereo panning, reverb and env-echo! Recommended settings for Thief DS alsoft.ini and Realtek ALC295 chipset:
    boost = -10

* DSOAL recommended settings

These are the settings I’m using in my alsoft.ini with Realtek ALC295:

[General] channels= frequency=48000 stereo-mode=auto cf_level=0 sources=512 slots=64 sends=16 sample-type=float32 resampler=bsinc24 default-hrtf=irc_1043_48000 hrtf=auto drivers=”-dsound,” period_size=1024 periods=3 [reverb] boost=+3

boost=<n> controls reverb amplification. You can try 0 (default), +6 (double), -6 (half)… depending on your audio chipset.

Some settings explanations here: [link]

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