Astérix Speedrunning: xxl

failentin

and now it's this muffled mess

hesopesomeso

Right? I remember trying it on win11, and it fact it seemed different from what we're used to. Not sure about reduced quality... would love a quick recording of the two (though, if you're running win11, that might not be possible :obelul:

). As for the reason, the audio is routed through a different audio library than dsound - openal. So the calls to dsound are handled by openal, though, it depends on how well the peeps at dsoal (dsound to openal) have handled this translation.

alatinn

Tenor GIF

hesopesomeso

Okay, I've tried dsoal, and it is different from the usual, you can definitely notice it, but if you haven't played on the original, you really won't think the quality worsened.

hesopesomeso

The audio itself isn't as "clear", so I'd say "muffled mess" is a perfect description :obelul:

alatinn

okay

failentin

it's day and night between the two audio libraties

failentin

I hate that we're stuck with this now :/

failentin

at least we can still run the game...

hesopesomeso

I wouldn't say that, it's probably the translation or the settings...

failentin

i tried a bunch of settings in the ini

failentin

but i didnt know what i was doing

failentin

no difference anyway

hesopesomeso

You could still play on the old dsound, but you'd have to disable reverb (the problem). Which makes it even worse.....

hesopesomeso

yeah...

thanasakis

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thanasakis

bruh i am chilling with win 10 right now

hesopesomeso

Don't worry, one day I'll convince you to install Linux, don't you worry

thanasakis

oh no he is goonna make a fake patch and make the game only playble on linux

hesopesomeso

no fire????

Download 2025-06-05_15-39-57-4010-4018_1.mp4:

#xxl