Creative Alchemy was a great innovation for putting DirectSound3D back into games that ran on Windows Vista & putting the EAX effects back in many games like Unreal Tournament 1999, Deus Ex, Half-Life 1 & a slew of other games.
Unfortunately, Creative Alchemy is failing in Windows 7 with many games whereas it worked in Vista. This is NOT a complaint-type post, but rather a plea for the Mods & Devs at Creative to please address these issues in a timely manner.
Windows 7 is a better operating system than Vista, so I think it's a worthwhile endeavor, as there are more people that play these older games, that are migrating to Windows 7, than one might care to believe. I'm one of them. Please don't be deceived, this is NOT a small group of people/gamers.
I know that there are individuals out there that will say "Windows 7 is nothing more than the same pile of road apples as Vista, with a different swarm of bugs crawling all over it" -- and to a degree-- you are right ( no hardware abstraction layer reimplemented -- they should have-- they did dress up OpenGL graphics rendering ). But Windows 7 is still a better OS that Vista -- hands down.
As I said before Windows 7 is worth the endeavor, as is a lot of these older games. Especially Unreal Tournament 1999, as even 10 years later after its release, it still is regarded as the best game in the Unreal series by a great many and the on-line player numbers prove it. I've purchased and played all the Unreal Series games and played them extensively & I can tell you, for a fact, that running Unreal Tournament 1999 on XP with EAX effects, on an X-fi Extreme music card, the sound displacement was far superior than any of the other Unreal series games. It's not even remotely close. Creative Alchemy had carried this great sound in Unreal Tournament 1999 over to Vista, now lets take it to the next level and get it carried over to Windows 7.
Also there are thousands of players & servers running Half-Life 1 & its many mods ( Counter-Strike, anyone? ) and it may pertain to Half-Life 2 as well.
And BTW, Ive tried a multitude of different drivers & alchemy releases & Daniel K's driver packages. Sorry, but these don't get DirectSound3D to work in Windows 7.
So, I'm coming here & BEGGING, PLEADING -- PLEASE address this issue in a timely manner.
