GTA 3/Vice City crackling audio

[K4pp49750]

Hi. I'm new and looking for a solution regarding the low audio quality of GTA 3 and Vice City. I have click and pop issues in GTA 3 audio in cutscenes and phone calls (side missions). Same thing Vice City although the cutscenes seem to have better audio than in GTA 3. I have a Sound Blaster Z and I use Alchemy to activate EAX 3. The only way I have found is to replace Alchemy with DSOAL + OpenAL Soft and use the bsinc12 resampling filter integrated in OpenAL Soft. Are there any other solutions?

[K4pp49750]

To be clearer, without OpenAL Soft, in GTA 3 the audio is distorted in the cutscenes and in in-game dialogue. In GTA Vice City the audio is only distorted in in-game dialogue (the audio of the cutscenes seems to be of better quality than in GTA 3). With OpenAL Soft, distorted audio is resolved in GTA 3 cutscenes and in in-game dialogue audio clicks are less present but not disappeared. Same thing in Vice City.

Playing the MP3 and WAV files with Foobar2000, they play correctly, so the two games I think do some sort of low quality resampling which makes the sound quality worse. 

 

Since no one has answered me, this is probably an unsolvable problem, but I would like to know if others have low quality audio with clicks and pops as well.

Edited December 23, 2021 by K4pp49750

[slze1]

any solution ? i have same issue.

[stef_92]

Use this script and then use any of the EAX sound drivers from Audio settings 

[alakayy]

thanks stef that made the game 20x more enjoyable on my fiio e10k and dt 770 pro