Mass Effect with 3D spatial sound 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio) 100th subscriber special!
18INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS IN DESCRIPTION!
Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best HRTF effect at 2:34.
Thank you so much for supporting this channel over the last 8 months. As a reward for my faithful viewers, here is a game I've been saving for a very special occasion. This is Mass Effect 1 with OpenAL Soft's HRTF (IRC_1037). Installation is as easy as putting the 32-bit soft_oal.dll into Windows\SysWOW64 and then entering "DeviceName=OpenAL Soft" under the ISACT audio settings in the engine config file. Setting it to Read-Only is a good idea, as it sometimes overwrites OpenAL Soft for me.
Mass Effect's binaural audio is kind of underwhelming compared to many other games I've covered, though the 3D positioning is still very accurate. Part of the problem seems to lie with the bad sound mixing, as cutscene audio plays much louder than the in-game audio. There aren't really all that many positional ambient sounds, just the sounds of enemies firing at you or occasional NPC chatter. The cutscene dialogue all plays in mono, too. Also, it seems that dialogue will infrequently get interrupted, so you might want to turn on subtitles. Still, I'm glad the first ME game supported OpenAL at least. It was one of the very last games to support hardware acceleration, too!
Speaking of EAX, while it is possible to restore EAX effects through DSOAL, doing so will break ambient sound volumes in certain areas. This is demonstrated in a separate video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcpAEp181E
HRTF grade:
A
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
MaxChannels=128 (any higher resets it down to 60)
TotalAvailableChannels=128
DeviceName=OpenAL Soft
UseEffectsProcessing=True
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=1024
default-hrtf=irc_1037_44100
hrtf=true
resampler=linear
Links:
http://openal-soft.org/
https://mega.nz/#!OTpDkQhY!i6NIUTAwopa2pilAiEL-pBxPOzrPLD_vHQMcCRdFLLs
(download personalized HRTF presets here)
Credits:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mass_Effect_logo.png
(Credit to Deerstop. Logo copyrighted by BioWare and EA. Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.)
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