Outlaws with 3D spatial sound (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)
6Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off.
Outlaws with the 1.1 patch was one of the very first PC games to support binaural audio with Aureal A3D 1.0. This is even more impressive when you consider most of its competition couldn't even support hardware-accelerated graphics, yet Outlaws had full soundcard and video card support back in 1997. Over 21 years later, it's possible to restore full HRTF and surround sound on any PC by using the Creative a3dx5 and Aureal A2D wrappers. These wrap the A3D calls to DirectSound3D, which are then daisy-chained to OpenAL Soft through DSOAL.
In terms of sound design, Outlaws is pretty primitive. You can tell this game was designed with plain stereo in mind, as there are few ambient sounds and they don't even loop properly. Since the Jedi Engine is 2.5D instead of 3D, there also aren't any elevation filters. Enemies above you will sound like they're in the same room as you. Still, Outlaws' audio goes far beyond what most games from 1997 were capable of.
(I apologize for the ending. nGlide screws up the cutscenes and I couldn't record with dgVoodoo because Outlaws would not minimize. Disabling the cutscenes causes the game to crash most of the time.)
HRTF grade:
A- (no elevation filter)
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
Sound driver: Aureal A3D Interactive
1920x1080 forced in nGlide (keep aspect ratio)
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=2
default-hrtf=irc_1037_44100
hrtf=true
resampler=linear
Links:
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/65094?tab=files
(It says New Vegas, but it will work with any supported DirectSound3D game)
http://members.optushome.com.au/kirben/a2ddrivers312.exe
(copy files to both Windows/System and Windows/SysWOW64 just to be safe)
https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/2017/01/sb-x-fi-series-support-pack-40.html
(extract .exe; A3D.dll found in Audio/Drivers/XFTI/wdm/common/i386)
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Outlaws#Higher_quality_graphics
Credits:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zM0VrEcTFSs/UEE7f4gBk_I/AAAAAAAAV0g/Pa1z7aXf3eA/s1600/Outlaws_PC_title.png
(Use of this logo falls under fair use laws.)
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