Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil w/ 3D spatial sound in Dhewm3 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)

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Published on December 15, 2018 11:15:01 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJsV0zhuDcI

Game:

Doom 3 (2004)

Duration: 9:11

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Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best HRTF effect at 3:45.

This is Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil with OpenAL Soft's HRTF and EFX in Dhewm3. RoE might be one the biggest cases of damage control I've ever seen with an expansion pack. Nerve Software knew that a lot of people were disappointed with Doom 3 up until the Hell level, so what did they do? They made a set of levels more in line with the last third of the main campaign. The pacing is lightning-fast thanks to the Super Shotgun that's somehow even MORE overpowered than the one in Brutal Doom. There's also a lot less PDAs and audio logs, which I think everyone will agree was the worst, most unnecessary part of Doom 3.

Unfortunately, Dhewm3's bugs come to a head in Resurrection of Evil. No matter what I do, it keeps crashing after Erebus Labs 6 as shown in the video. I can never beat RoE unless I start over in vanilla Doom 3 since Dhewm3 saves are not backwards-compatible. Fuck this janky-ass port.

Since I devoted my Doom 3 video to a Twitter rant about Creative, I'll shed light on Doom 3's binaural audio in this video instead. First of all, I don't think it's as good as I used to. I've dropped it from "A+" to "A-" since it sounds nowhere near as good as Quake 4. It does sound about even with Quake 4's multiplayer, however, which for some reason had less accurate 3D positional audio than in single-player. There is a bad bug in Erebus Labs 5 where the occlusion effect in the toxic area (the ONLY occlusion effect in all of Doom 3) remains until you restart the game. It should be noted that you don't need Dhewm3 for spatialized audio in Doom 3, it's just for the convenience of having reverb as well.


HRTF grade:
A-

Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
seta g_fov "100"
image_anisotropy 16
seta pm_runbob "0"
seta pm_runpitch "0"
seta pm_runroll "0"
seta pm_walkbob "0"
seta pm_bobpitch "0"
seta pm_bobroll "0"
seta pm_bobup "0"
seta pm_crouchbob "0"
IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in %APPDATA%/OpenAL/HRTF
(in alsoft.ini located in %APPDATA%)
channels=stereo
frequency=44100
stereo-mode=headphones
cf_level=0
sample-type=float32
periods=3
period_size=128
default-hrtf=irc_1037_44100
hrtf=true
resampler=linear
boost=-12 (you need this for hardware-accurate reverb levels)

Links:
https://dhewm3.org/
http://openal-soft.org/
https://mega.nz/#!OTpDkQhY!i6NIUTAwopa2pilAiEL-pBxPOzrPLD_vHQMcCRdFLLs
(download personalized HRTF presets here)

Credits:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/e/eb/Doom_3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140305204823
(Logo copyrighted by id Software. Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.)



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