Mass Effect Legendary Edition Mass Effect 1 Surround Sound Fix

Steps

1. Download openal soft from https://openal-soft.org

2. Put file from Win32/soft_oal.dll as OpenAL32.dll to Windows/SysWOW64 and file from Win64/soft_oal.dll as OpenAL32.dll to Windows/system32, override if necessary

3. Delete OpenAL32.dll from binaries in game directory

4. Put this:

[ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice] MaxChannels=128 UseEffectsProcessing=True TimeBetweenHWUpdates=15 MinOggVorbisDurationGame=20 MinOggVorbisDurationEditor=4 DeviceName= ReserveChannels=2 TotalAvailableChannels=128 UseEffectsProcessing=True

To BIOEngine.ini in config directory in path like Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\BioGame\Config, make it read-only so game doesn't override it. There should be already section like ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice so put it there

5. Run alsoft-config.exe from openal-soft-{version}-bin\alsoft-config and set your desired channels - in my case it's 7.1 and click apply, you can try other options, whatever seem to be better for you

6. (Optionally) go to %appdata%, there should be file alsoft.ini and you can try adding two options there:

volume-adjust = 6 front-stablizer=true

volume-adjust increases overall sound volume -24 to 24

front-stablizer - mixes sound from left and right channel to center

7. Just run a game, you should have surround sound working fine now

8. If it doesn't work try restarting your PC

9. Also it might work if you replace dll only in a binaries folder - but i didn't try it

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2487160511

Mass Effect 1 Surround Sound Fix

Steps

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