RightMark 3DSound Positioning Accuracy test: Hardware vs Software vs OpenAL Soft HRTF audio
15Use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Shout out to WildCat for helping me get better results with the elevation filter. I had to record this a third time because it turns out CMSS-3D's "MacroFX" and "ElevationFilter" weren't working when set to "Auto".
0:00 Hardware OpenAL (ct_oal.dll) HRTF
0:48 Hardware OpenAL elevation filter
1:33 Software OpenAL (sens_oal.dll) HRTF
2:26 Software OpenAL elevation filter
3:14 OpenAL Soft HRTF
4:00 OpenAL Soft elevation filter
4:50 Hardware EAX effects
7:00 Software EAX effects
8:52 Hardware EAX reverb
10:39 Software EAX reverb
Software OpenAL is what's used on every modern Creative card nowadays. You can activate it on the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium by renaming the 32-bit "ct_oal.dll" so it won't recognize it. OpenAL Soft HRTF is obtained by installing it and DSOAL into the Rightmark 3DSound folder (see links below). The built-in KEMAR tables were used. Notice how Software OpenAL's HRTF and elevation effects just sound like cheap low/high-pass filters. Notice also how superior the sound quality of OpenAL Soft HRTF is since it upsamples the 22khz drum loop to 44khz.
The EAX reverb is unrelated, but I added it because I had a feeling someone would've asked about it.
Links:
http://audio.rightmark.org/download.shtml (RM 3DSound 2.3)
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/dsoal.zip
http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1192376-relz-restoring-surround-sound-and-eax/
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_2004#Use_OpenAL_Soft
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/1fzonq/psa_for_games_using_openal_including_minecraft/cagd3lb/
http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/salles/listen/
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
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