Boosting up my sound

[Corporal_Lib [BR]]

Guys...
Ive been using the Old Unreal updates to improve my INF, but my sound didn´t improved THAT MUCH promissed by the OpenAL and the other sound drivers offered by old unreal... and lurking in my infiltration.ini, I observed that perhaps the Old Unreal instalattion didn´t changed my sound driver! Plz, take a look at the "piece" of config (from infiltration.ini) below and give me some advices how to tweak my sound (that´s to say: post how this line should be configured or other lines in infiltration.ini that should be altered! I didn´t understood the old unreal manual... XP )

GameRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
AudioDevice=Galaxy.GalaxyAudioSubsystem
NetworkDevice=IpDrv.TcpNetDriver
DemoRecordingDevice=Engine.DemoRecDriver
Console=INF_Console.INFc_Console
Language=int
GameEngine=Engine.GameEngine
EditorEngine=Editor.EditorEngine
WindowedRenderDevice=SoftDrv.SoftwareRenderDevice
RenderDevice=GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice
DefaultGame=InfiltrationUT.InfilTeamGamePlus
DefaultServerGame=InfiltrationUT.InfilTeamGamePlus
ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient
Render=Render.Render
Input=Engine.Input
Canvas=Engine.Canvas
RunCount=108

Thanx a lot, ppl! Lets keep Inf alive XD

 

[Crowze]

AudioDevice=ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem

 

[Corporal_Lib [BR]]

Is THAT simple??? Gosh... I feel ashamed... Doesn´t it need to config the piece of config nbelow, or insert one like this specific for Open AL??? (which one is the best? Open Al or the other driver that came along in Old Unreal pack???)

[Audio.GenericAudioSubsystem]
UseFilter=True
UseSurround=True
UseStereo=True
UseCDMusic=True
UseDigitalMusic=False
UseSpatial=True
UseReverb=True
Use3dHardware=True
LowSoundQuality=False
ReverseStereo=True
Latency=40
OutputRate=44100Hz
Channels=24
MusicVolume=160
SoundVolume=200
AmbientFactor=0.7

Thanx for the patience, Crowze! ;-)

 

[Crowze]

It should create its own set of settings when you first run it. The defaults are usually fine.

OpenAL is the best quality, the FMod driver is lower quality but much lower CPU usage, so good for low-end systems.

 

[smeerkat]

I have a question about sound in-game: let's say I'm near a helicopter, which has an ambient helicopter sound. Then there's a firefight nearby, and I hear the echoing shots. This causes the helicopter sound to cut out completely.

Is there something in my config that I can tweak, to fix this bug?

 

[geogob]

it's probably a limit of the number of sound channels. what audio card do you have?

 

[smeerkat]

"SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio."

 

[geogob]

Well, I'm not familiar enough with the soundmax chip to really know how many audio channels there are. But I would guess "enough for UT". Problem is that UT sounds engine is probably as bad as it gets. They called it Galaxy for some reason, like the Galaxy cinema near where I live, which is also as bad as it gets.

Nevertheless, there is probably not much you can do to improve this. We even use this engine limitation for some effects. Amusing.

One thing you can do is make sure you have the lastest drivers from your motherboard maker for your specific board. Other then that. Not sure. Maybe Crowze could have an Idea or someone who played more around with the audio engine.

 

[Crowze]

Which in-game sound system are you using? Since the SoundMAX is an on-board solution which leeches off the CPU, I suggest using the FMod driver from the OldUnreal UT patch.

 

[smeerkat]

Which in-game sound system are you using?

I don't know. Where do I look to find out?

 

[Crowze]

Well if you don't know it'll be the default UT one . Head over to www.oldunreal.com (I think) and get the UT update.

 

[smeerkat]

Do I download OMP-UT.exe, or OMP-UT-V0.2.exe ?