Problems with EAX 4.0?

[Infidel]

Hello,
I have a Sound Blaster Audigy SE, which according to the documentation supports eax 4.0. I have been trying to run Dreamfall with Eax 4.0 on, however some of the sound effects seem to be a bit off. As an example, indoors the reverb effects tend to fade in and out in the middle of conversations, and as I wander around a room.

I have checked to make sure I have the latest drivers from creative but I am at a loss as to what else could be causing this. Does anyone have any ideas?

[HeinzHarald]

According to Creative's site it only supports EAX3.

"EAX ADVANCED HD 3.0 support for gaming."

http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=205&product=14257

[Infidel]

It is a bit confusing, but the updated driver that downloaded from creative's site claimed to support EAX 4.0:


This package enhances your Sound Blaster® Audigy® SE or Audigy Value audio device with EAX®4.0 ADVANCED HD™ capabilities.

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?DriverLang=1033&searchString=SB0570


But even using EAX 3.0 I still have similar problems. Things like people's voices suddenly cutting in and out, then being fine again. It seems to have something to do with the camera angle but I am not exactly sure. I have tested my setup on a couple of other games, such as battlefield 2, to see if there is something wrong with my computer but I havent had any problems in any of them.

[Nothsa]

I believe you may have misread. The way I read that line is "This package enhances the sound quality on cards with EAX4 capabilities", not "This package enhances the sound quality by giving the cards EAX4 capabilities".

I could be wrong, but that's how I interperate that line.

[Infidel]

Wow that was incredibly dumb of me, not sure how I missed that. Part of the reason I got confused is that before installing the driver the game claimed I didnt have eax4 compatabile hardware and greyed out the setting, and afterwards it said I did and let me use the setting. Just a bug I guess.

Thanks for the help.

[Auras]

Actually Infidel is right. This driver enables EAX 4.0 capabilities on your Audigy card. I tried EAX 4 in the game with the new driver and it works fine.

Infidel, do you have an 5.1 speaker set?