EAX 4 Echo

[Bishop_Swift]

So I just bought a Sound Blaster Z and gave EAX a go unfortunately the game has a real bad Echo with it turned on. Is this working as intended? If it is I would say it is a weird and somewhat bad esign choice.

[Kibbster]

I've always found the EAX is just plain awful in Doom3, it was like that when it was first patched in and it's never been fixed that I know of.
It's just huge amounts of reverb and sounds terrible.

[Faith λ]

Anyone knows how to fix this issue? I have external Creative SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro, but with EAX on, Doom 3 sounds absolutely horrible. Permanent echo doesnt allow to hear voices properly, its like underwater all the time... I have Win 10 32bit, no compatibilitiy settings fixes this problem :( , neither Alchemy on.

[MrMcSwifty]

Originally posted by Faith CZ:

Anyone knows how to fix this issue? .

There is no fix for the issue because there's nothing wrong on your end. EAX was just really poorly implemented in this game. They just added a 100% reverb layer to the entire stereo output and called it a day. It sounds just as bad natively on WinXP with a Creative X-Fi.

[Bishop_Swift]

Originally posted by McSwifty:

Originally posted by Faith CZ:

Anyone knows how to fix this issue? .

There is no fix for the issue because there's nothing wrong on your end. EAX was just really poorly implemented in this game. They just added a 100% reverb layer to the entire stereo output and called it a day. It sounds just as bad natively on WinXP with a Creative X-Fi.

Yeah I eventually figured that out. EAX was a great idea and fantastic when implemented well (see Bioshock), but unfortunately we don't get anything like that anymore just bad PCM.