/v/ - Video Games

I put speaker in bum
Noise make me cum

related: >>25002

>Have any games' audio caught your attention lately?
Been binging Half Life and it's mods for a while now, and GoldSource just has fantastic audio.
System Shock 2 took huge inspiration from it and improved on it tenfold with the work they did on Thief.

Thief 2s audio is amsterful
It's a goddamned shame most modern games have such terrible audio and middleware options like virtual surround are somehow even worse than the original bland mix.

>>307004
It's interesting just how much character Half-Life's default reverb had over its EAX version (from what I've heard of the latter; can't really speak for it with A3D as I've only heard one sample of it in a webm years ago). The EAX version's reverb is objectively better and definitely has better positional audio, but I have to admit: something about the harshness of the default reverb combined with the sound effects gives the mix this real punchiness that sounds like no other game.
Have you messed around with the GoldSrc MetaAudio plugin at all?

>>307010
Nope, all default
Had no idea it even had such a project, I'll be sure to give it a try after I finish Field Intensity and Reprocessing!

It makes sense though, release version likely had EAX support but Valve removed it after a few updates since it was no longer supported.

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Here;s hoping >we see a sleepy audio thread about as dedicated as that one from 4 years ago.
>>307001
Is this (You)?

Open headphones are good. I prefer that to “noise” cancellation.  If anything closed/open should be considered neutral.

>>307026
Stick a microphone up ass and it plays like a speaker while you  listen to and speak with people?

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>>307039
I don't have enough wits to answer that question.

>>307038
I wish more people considered open headphones as an option, let alone knew they existed. Yeah, they're impractical for noisy environments, but that better sense of spatial distance you get out of them is a huge boon for 3D vidya.

>>307042
I think it's supposed to be a rhetorical question. How do you put a mic up your ass and have it output sound and vibrations?

>>307049
change the output to your mic, in theory if it has the ability to do so you'll get vibration out of it at least.
The guy probably said mic but might've meant some stupid dildo with tunctionality mang.

>>307000 (OP) 
Beyerdynamic MMX300v2, basically DT990 with detachable cable and a mic, quite decent for constant wearing, passable for voice chats.

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>>307039
>>307042
>>307049
Speakers and microphones aren't fundamentally different, they both can technically output audio and get audio input.
This is how devices that don't even have a microphone (but have a speaker) listen to what you say.

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>>307000 (OP) 
Audiophile thread?

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>>307059
>>307060
Faggot.

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>>307060
>>307057
Select your setup for tonight

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>>307057
Perhaps

>>307082
>no crystals
Not gunna make it

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>>307106
>I have been reminded of the crystals

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Seriously though, fags need to enable EAX via DSOAL whenever they can, it makes games sound amazing.
Playing System Shock 2 and Doom 3 with them is fucking Unreal which also has EAX support

Has anyone ever gotten A3D to work on Wine?
Farthest I ever got was A3D 1.0 in GTAIII through DSOAL, though I think it used some fallback compatibility mode via EAX which didn't sound that great, though A3D 1.0 is also less advanced than later iterations of EAX and positional audio is handled by AL in DSOAL anyway. Attempting to run A3D 2.0 in any game that supports it results in a crash or the game automatically reverting to audio defaults.

>>307116
Off-topic, but you might have greater success running a pci-passthrough VM, if IOMMU groups on motherboard are granular enough and dedicating spare GPU+display is agreeable. Whole stack has been quite stable for past 10 years and there are most single digit percents of performance loss. You can share audio via vban/pulseaudio/pipewire and input devices either via qemu USB sharing or synergy/deskflow (or just dedicate one of USB hosts).