Penumbra: Requiem with 3D spatial sound 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)
3Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best HRTF effects at 1:53.
Here's Penumbra: Requiem with OpenAL Soft's HRTF and EFX reverb. For some strange reason, this game would persistently crash with the renamed soft_oal.dll in C:\Windows\SysWOW64. I had to use Creative's OpenAL32.dll, launch the game once, set Use Hardware to On, and then Requiem would work with OpenAL Soft.
What began with gripping fear of hounds bursting through barricades ends with 2 hours of pushing boxes around like a jackass. I guess it's better than taking the Valve route, at least. Most places like Youtube don't even consider this a separate game from Black Plague, but I recorded this anyway just because the Steam library does. Ironically, the more vertical level layouts with emphasis on traps and gimmicks gives Requiem the best 3D soundstage out of the entire Penumbra trilogy. You can really hear that vertical HRTF with the moving platforms in stage 3.
HRTF grade:
A
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
Use Hardware: On
EFX: On
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
drivers="-dsound"
Links:
http://openal-soft.org/#download
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/65094
(Includes pre-made HRTF .mhr files in HARD_MODE_INSTALLATION.zip)
http://repo.or.cz/dsound-openal.git
http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/salles/listen/
http://satsun.org/audio/
Credits:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/penumbra/images/3/39/Penumbra_Overture.png
(Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.)
#3dsound #spatialaudio #binaural #3daudio #360audio #8daudio #hrtf #headphones #audiophile #gameaudio #mod #halloween #penumbra
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