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[Kelso]

Hmmm ... I know, I read the instructions. But I guess I can hear the difference with and without these files. I don't know how much is a suggestion / placebo.
Maybe someone will try and share their impressions.

[mikojan3]

no no kelso is awesome with this many times have you to change the option to enable in audio option headphone-standard-headphone or other and you see the difference

[FL2070]

I found something like this: https://www.indirectsound.com/

I tried this, with eax1=true and eax2=true set in my dsound.ini, and with extensions turned on in audio settings, and heard absolutely no difference at all. Mike's right: placebo it is.

[FL2070]

Update: this "indirectsound" dsound.dll actually caused my game to freeze every time I played multiplayer. Spent 15 minutes disabling and removing random stuff I'd added to my UP3.4 from all of my mods to il2ge before I remembered testing IndirectSound, and removing that fixed it. I definitely would not recommend using this with IL-2.

[mot0rhead]

Was interested in trying this - seeing others used "indirectsound" I googled and found another supposed convertor - the open source Open AL Soft mentioned.

Not sure if this really worked for me or not - installed and setup EAX following Storebrors original post and mediafire link on current system including changes to IL2 config etc -booted IL2 BAT and seemed to get the correct logs and quieter sounds and some reverb but not really impressive.

I then dowloaded "OpenAL Soft" from https://openal-soft.org and extracted the zip.

First tested setup (prior to renaming the included dll) via the included openal-info64.exe and this showed limited EAX extensions/support - next renamed the included OpenAL Soft.dll to OpenAL32.dll (note on my 64bit win 10 system this file is in the windows/system32 folder) then re ran the openal-info64.exe and that showed numerous additional extensions.

Reloaded IL2 BAT and sounds seemed much improved than the original EAX - so either it doesn't work and sounds are as before installing EAX or it actually works definetly sounded better than the original ALchemy version.

[mot0rhead]

Well appears to actually do something - I installed the rightmark 3D audio analyser  from https://audio.rightmark.org/download.shtml

Initially ran the analyser - only allowed direct3d via software - then added the analyser via ALchemy - same method as outlined for IL2 as a game/path to exe.

Able to now choose and test DirectSound 3D Hardware plus EAX 1-4 plus enable occlusions/obstructions/exclusions - all appear to actual work with directional 3D sound via headphones!

[AirShark]

Well appears to actually do something - I installed the rightmark 3D audio analyser  from https://audio.rightmark.org/download.shtml

Initially ran the analyser - only allowed direct3d via software - then added the analyser via ALchemy - same method as outlined for IL2 as a game/path to exe.

Able to now choose and test DirectSound 3D Hardware plus EAX 1-4 plus enable occlusions/obstructions/exclusions - all appear to actual work with directional 3D sound via headphones!

Nice !
i think it removed the weird echos and reverb