With Alchemy installed and EAX activated in game, there are still no EAX effects. Any known solution for that?
Topic on Talk:Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Did you check here?
Link: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Sound_card#DirectSound_hardware_path
I did 😉. And I also tried out the other solutions to restore EAX, with the same result.
To be clear: The surround-sound works! It's just all the effects like reverb that don't work. As far as I can tell, this is a common issue.
WW is also the only title in the trilogy that supports EAX Universal. Maybe that's the source of the problem.
PS: It might also be the case that this is a specific issue of the GOG version that I am using. But I couldn't find any information to verify this.
I may have figured it out. I also noticed the reverb was pretty much non-existent. It's there, but barely audible so we gotta increase the its volume individually so it sounds more like (some) console versions: https://youtu.be/yrpCQl8lRyc?t=289 (maybe not like PS3 which has them bathroom acoustics everywhere)
Someone here claims it worked properly in XP, so perhaps EAX emulation is to blame: https://steamcommunity.com/app/13500/discussions/0/133259956017309679/
ALchemy doesn't support customizing the reverb, but DSOAL (the open-source alternative) does. So basically we just gotta edit alsoft.ini and set boost to 6 or 12 (depending on your preferences. 6 doubles it and 12 quadruples it so it's noticeable)
For full instructions, check out the link in the description of the demo I uploaded: https://youtu.be/b0xr_G35q48