no/bad convolution reverb, no pitchshifting, too high shelfed, dated soundsources, umcompressed (?)

the sounds in q3 (cpma) was better actually, kinda sad

the very sad part is I remember an id employee said in DHW 2009 that sound issues were gonna get fixed. Think it was TTimo.

Yeah, I can confirm this. Sound is very flat in this game. I noticed it when I switched from UT2k4 to QL. You can only tell if your opponent is coming from front, back, right or left by sound. But if he is above or beneath you only experience will tell you.

Even sadder when you know that Q3 had aureal-3d sound already 1999.

But they removed it at some point(release), and quake never had real positional sound ever again. :(

don't know about Q3, but in CS a3d was considered a cheat because it tripled the range you could hear sounds. so maybe that was the reason for it's removal in Q3.

well then all they would have to do is shorten the sound range to a third when using a3d....

afiak you could edit all the sounds directly, means just boosting the hitsounds up and hear them over the whole map.

eeeekk!

Then it must have been faulty programmed in CS.
The purpose of a3d would be to get very good positional audio with headphones: http://toni.org/a3d/

Exactly!
I remember I had some expensive SB compatible sound card made by Turtle Beach, and there was a special driver available from A3D which translated the A3D stuffz to Dsound3D calls. After trying out A3D support in Q3, I concluded that it's not worth it because it made things 20% slower for nothing but some crapy echo effects.

After some time I received my Diamond MX300 with a Vortex2 chip onboard, and the difference was astonishing. Perhaps the reverb was a little too much for my taste, but the positional effect was something I never heard before in a game, and it was way ahead of anything else for sure.

R.I.P Aureal:(


edit: it was patch 1.27g which removed the Aureal A3D support

Pussies. Play qw.

this

What I read: "Pussies play qw."