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Blue, here's a hint; the X, Y and Z at the bottom left of the viewport, the direction that X points is always North. Y points to East. I learned this a while back as I kept getting frustrated with it

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I doubt an ini would affect ignoring queries. That's usually an internet problem.

For those who need it there is now a command line based dedicated server available...
http://aa25assist.sourceforge.net/download.php

Too cool! Awesome work man.

Yep, isn't that a thing that almost only Creative used to support? Asus claims some virtual support but i think it's just a written-on box feature.

Yea, there was a licensed Creative chip for EAX which had a puff of popularity 6-8 years ago with FEAR, BF2 and the Unreal 2 games. They did do some porting to OpenAL but for all practical purposes, it's dead. I think some companies like Realtek and Asus used the OpenAL to replicate early EAX support (version 2-3 I think meanwhile version 4 is still only supported on X-Fi hardware). EAX originally came out to try and offload sound rendering from the single-core CPU's at the time and it did work but as usual, CPU's improved exponentially. Most, if not all, modern game engines do sound rendering via software in the CPU so even if you have an X-Fi card, it's not doing much. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a great example of this, great sounds processed by the CPU.

Also, I think the EAX in AA is only for reverb effect for different environments like hallway, alley, city street and things like that. I just checked in the editor and Urban Assault doesn't have any EAX effects but SF Dockside has "Dusty Room" enabled for the inside of the main warehouse. PC sound cards are obsolete IMO. For gamers that don't care about sound quality *cough*skrewy*cough* there's digital 7.1 output from the motherboard. For people that do care about sound quality, there's external DAC and amp solutions. The important thing to note is that neither of those have hardware sound processing.

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Perhaps you don't have the hardware required to run EAX? It's an old dead technology anyway. I would go with 3D Audio and slide both sliders to the right.

No need to fiddle with it... the maximum slots are there for a reason and the maps are professionally fine-tuned for them. And it's a rare sight to see even 20 players on a server.

Maps aren't tuned for player slots unless you're talking about one map being better for 8-10 players than 26? Even then, I don't think the devs had player slots on the mind when they built maps. The maximum slots are there for a reason because of hardware and engine limitations 6+ years ago. CPU's are faster now. We can't work past engine limitations but the AA developers themselves coded the 4 fireteams, they must have wanted to use them at some point. We can make the maps have 100 playerstarts but if it becomes a problem, the server hoster can set the maximum limit. For now, the obvious bottleneck for pushing past 26 slots are the maps not having any more slots.