Game:

Deus Ex (2000)

Duration: 2:45

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***** UPDATE *****
Turns out A3D wrappers unsurprisingly introduce bugs, so it's better to uninstall all A3D wrappers so that the game falls back to native DirectSound3D/EAX mode
Unfortunately, the game thinks wrappers are actually A3D sound cards so it prioritizes that over DS3D/EAX which used to make sense back in the '90s/'00s since A3D was astronomical units ahead of EAX, but nowadays, ironically, EAX works better because it can be emulated more consistently)

Binaural Audio | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A few observations about native DirectSound3D (without A3D wrappers):
⚠️It still requires flipping the Y axis in alsoft.ini
✅It seems more positionally accurate: sounds directly underneath relative to head orientation sound like they're all over the place (notice how when I look up, I hear the robot's footsteps coming from the ceiling at around 0:44) (I'm using SADIE HRTF so sounds ~90 below should sound attenuate high frequencies because of body occlusion, which only happens when not using A3D wrapper at 1:54)
ℹ️Reverb is quieter and different (though I'm not sure if it's better per se) and A3D's reverb seems to make positioning noticeably more diffuse, though even when setting it to -24, positioning doesn't seem as good as no A3D with regular (quiet) reverb volume
✅Doesn't hang momentarily at the main menu like with A3D
Instructions/configuration: https://airtable.com/shrtTsUtiAJQ7wFGI/tblNOTdmp5nHXfFGU/viwjDPuKOjBnIQunv/recU6MI6CyiGQOQiW
More info: https://kutt.it/Binaural
Discord server: https://kutt.it/BinauralDiscord"

Further observations from ceski:
https://youtu.be/7EceHpXDA6Q
https://youtu.be/1UfNoJQPdy8
Test settings are documented here: https://gist.github.com/ceski-1/5825657be6416234be005668d1057da3

Chapters:
0:00 DSOAL with A3D-Live!
1:01 DSOAL without A3D-Live!

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