EAX advanced HD not working even when i ues ( creative alchemy)

[Straightclickbait]

I recently bought a new laptop. i love the original fear series!
my loptop is runing everything max out in true hi DEf sorry for you lagers out there lol !
cant seem to come up with an answer why EAX advanced HD wont implement?

I am using x-fi surround 5.1 pro usb sound card
worked perfectly fine on my old laptop on windows 7 but l cant seem to understand why it wont work on the new one windows 8 . ( creative alchemy) seeems to work perfectly fine in windows 8 it recognizes when i remove the sound card. alchemy that is! but when i go in to FEAR always in the gray MATTER WHAT I DO! MAYBE THE PATH WHER ITS BEING IMPLEMENTED IS WRONG BUT I VE DONE NOTHING NO DIFFERENTLY THAN IN WINDOWS 7 ?

[Hara]

I have no experience with Windows 8.

But, you have created an entry for F.E.A.R. in Creative Alchemy and pointed it to the F.E.A.R. directory?

[JMacguire]

You may be running a 64 bit version of windows. If so, you need to alter the strings in Alchemy to reflect the 64 bit operating system.
Rather than use the 32 bit registry keys that are already in place and work beautifully on 32 bit systems, 64 bit keys need this change........

SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\

insert Wow6432Node right after SOFTWARE in Creative's FEAR Alchemy setting and VOILA!

[Tristis Oris]

i have bsod when enable game in creative alchemy. great fun) win 8.1.

[XIII]

Win8 should work, you need alchemy usualy because MS decided in Win7 - during a moment of utter stupidity - that pcs dont need full soundcard support. It was fixed in W8, though.

It's probably Creatives terrible driver support. The old X-FIs havent even been fully updated for Win7. You might search for modded drivers, i'm only getting my X-FI Gamer to work in W7 when using the Daniel_K drivers.

In conclusion: Dont buy Soundcards from Creative. Not matter how good they are, the company behind it is terrible.

[Straightclickbait]

still can't get it to work ? i try your suggestion (JMacguire) and still nothing

and i definitely agree with you (Xlll) though i do believe microsoft partly responsible too many damn operating systems to support . corporations always turn their backs on each other and saying I do believe we're going in different direction.

[Straightclickbait]

I"M curious to know if anyone has actually got fear 1 EAX advanced HD working on windows 8.1 ? Because every other game l play seems to work fine weird

[Jarrod]

I don't have a Creative card, I just got Creative headphones, and the software came with Alchemy (otherwise I wouldn't even know or care about any of this stuff) The software doesn't NEED a creative card, it just converts the audio, as said from their website. I have tried everything, including making Alchemy use the game's install path, all to no avail.

[AOD_SK451]

Had the same issue with my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card running windows 8.1 x64.

What fixed it for me was setting the game to run as Admin as well as running it in compatability mode for WinXP SP3.

Also, in Alchemy, insert "Wow6432Node" after SOFTWARE in the registry path (64bit OS only)
as stated by JMacguire above.
Using the game path method works as well.

All of my hardware sound options including EAX are available and working with FEAR, FEAR XP, and FEAR PM using this method.

[Diziet Embless Sma]

Thanks AOD_SK451 and JMacguire. I can see the error now before my PC reboots. Before it was too corrupted to read.

It now reboots with a blue screen unhappy smiley referencing ha20x2k.sys as the cause of the failure. I believe that's a creative sys file, is it Alchemy related I wonder.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

@AOD-SK451 I have the same creative sound card as you, plus win 8.1 X64.

[tHe dU]

eax 4.0 or eax advanced hd was a tech from creative soundcards produced around 2005. i doubt your headphone supports this tech even on alchemy mode

[Demodulated]

tHe dU lähetti viestin:

eax 4.0 or eax advanced hd was a tech from creative soundcards produced around 2005. i doubt your headphone supports this tech even on alchemy mode

You could plug in speakers from 1945 and they would be compatible with EAX. There is no such thing as speaker incompatibility.