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Title: No surround sound in F.E.A.R. - advice?

mrmatteastwood 9 Aug 2022

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Hey guys, has anybody had any luck playing F.E.A.R. in surround sound?

I have the Platinum Edition from GOG. Downloaded the installers and installed it in my system-wide Wine. I then tried both DSOAL and IndirectSound, but the surround options in the game remain greyed-out.

On the Wine side, everything is set up properly. DSOAL and IndirectSound work well with Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project.

Also, same result when I install the game through Lutris. Tried various Wine builds from there.

I played through the game on Win 10 a few years ago and IndirectSound worked without any further tweaking.

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whizse 10 Aug 2022

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It might be a problem with the game itself and not Wine specifically.

Some similar problems and discussion (for Windows) here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/21090/discussions/0/2872668471925965257/
https://github.com/kcat/dsoal/issues/11

Windows XP compatibility mode is mentioned, it might be worth a shot to play around with the Windows version reported by Wine and see if it helps.

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mrmatteastwood 12 Aug 2022

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Hey, thanks for your reply. It turns out F.E.A.R. will only load dsound.dll from the syswow64 directory. Once I put that file into syswow64 (making a backup of the original Win one), everything worked!

More info: https://github.com/kcat/dsoal/issues/67#issuecomment-1211908958

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whizse 12 Aug 2022

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Glad you got it working and thank you for sharing the solution!

Last edited by whizse on 12 Aug 2022 at 7:16 pm UTC

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