Painkiller: Hell & Damnation with 3D spatial sound 🎧 (X3DAudio HRTF mod)
7Use headphones only with any virtual surround like Windows Sonic turned off. Actual gameplay starts at 1:55. Best HRTF effect at 9:05.
This is a demonstration of Painkiller: Hell & Damnation with the X3DAudio HRTF wrapper (IRC_1037 tables). If you've never played this game but you feel like you've seen this level before, it's because this Painkiller game is meant to be an HD remaster of the first game. HD, Hell & Damnation; get it? It's quite a polarizing game in the franchise, partly because it looks and plays like ass and partly because they cut the length of the game in half and sold the rest as paid DLC. No, seriously.
As a later Unreal Engine 3 game (sometimes dubbed as UE3.5), Painkiller: Hell & Damnation uses XAudio2 + X3DAudio. It was quite tough getting this game to not crash upon startup. The trick was to set it to Windows XP SP3 compatiblity mode. The spatialized audio is better than the original with CMSS-3D, but far worse than DSOAL. The most obvious HRTF effect can be heard on the new "enemy corpse despawning" sound, which was changed from subtle whooshes to loud explosions for some stupid reason. Unfortunately, the X3DAudio wrapper seems to cause bad sound mixing: the weapons are three times as loud as the enemies and "hup" sounds.
I apologize for the bad framerate drops. X3DAudio HRTF causes quite a spike to CPU usage even before recording.
HRTF grade:
B
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
FOV: 115
Headbob intensity: 0
Movebob intensity: 0
IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in "HRTF" directory and renamed to "MIT_KEMAR_32000.mhr", "MIT_KEMAR_44100.mhr", "MIT_KEMAR_48000.mhr", and "MIT_KEMAR_96000.mhr".
Links:
https://github.com/kosumosu/x3daudio1_7_hrtf
https://mega.nz/#!SLwBBSyR!pTe5iDCMWgmkMBl60riCqTAFMai06oXR_ZK4CixfMAk
(Download personalized HRTF presets here)
Credits:
https://duke64nukem.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/painkiller_hd_logo.png
(Logo is copyrighted by The Farm 51. Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.)
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