Is A3D possible?

[Alec]

On my Live! card? I tried to enable it in Quake 3, but it doesn´t let me... I thought the Live had A3D extensions... what´s the a3d.dll file doing in my system folder?

[dZeus]

Q3A uses A3D 2.0, and only the Aureal Vortex2 chipset supports all A3D 2.0 functions (and only in win9x/me afaik).

[Dogbert]

Yes, too bad...
Aureal had a great chipset.

[Alec]

Thanks for the reply.

What about other games? Isn´t A3D 1.0 used anymore, is it just in older games?

[dZeus]

all cards but Aureal's emulate A3D 1.0 (by converting them to DirectSound3D in most cases). You don't want that either, trust me (I've tried Unreal on several non-aureal soundcards and they all sucked at it).

[TdB]

a3d on the sblive works in jedi knight.

[jackzod]

Q3A latest patches disabled the Aureal support...

sad