Quake III Arena with 3D spatial sound in ioquake3 🎧 (OpenAL Soft HRTF audio)
9https://ioquake3.org/
Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off.
SABER INTERACTIVE TAKE NOTE: This is what Quake Champions' HRTF should really sound like!
Next up is probably the most well-known Quake game with 3D sound, Quake III Arena. Not only did it originally support Aureal A3D before version 1.27, but it has a nifty source port called ioquake3 with native OpenAL Soft support. Quake 3 with binaural audio is truly amazing. It completely reshapes the playing field of the game, enabling you to clearly hear all the hectic action in a full 360 degrees. Yamagi Quake II might've had similar positional accuracy, but it was harder to gauge where enemies where due to the flawed volume rolloff.
Unfortunately, there is one major flaw in ioquake3's sound engine: there is no vertical HRTF. Players will neither sound like they're above or below you, they'll just sound more quiet. This is a problem that's also present in Raven's IDTech 3 games that use OpenAL as well as iortcw, but interestingly not the ones that use Miles Sound System. This is one area where Aureal A3D excelled, unfortunately, as it had full vertical HRTF.
HRTF grade:
A (no vertical HRTF)
Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
seta com_maxfps "125"
r_customwidth "1920"
r_customheight "1080"
r_mode "-1"
seta r_customaspect "1.777777777777778"
cg_fov "115.63"
seta cg_crosshairSize "12"
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
Links:
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/salles/listen/
Credits:
https://www.dafont.com/quake.font
(Use of this font falls under fair use laws.)
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