Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Alternative title: old games had much better sound design than new ones!

I installed ALchemy to re-enable EAX in Hitman: Contracts and this is the result. Man, the Training Area never sounded so big and echo-y with it enabled.

Sound card in question is a Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional set to Game Mode.

Mods used:
No HUD/Insane Difficulty mod by Samuel: youtube.com/watch?v=QAFhZNH6BSo
Dege's Waterfall Fix: vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=765843#p765843
Nemesis2000 Widescreen Patch: ps2wide.net/pc.html (LOD distance set to 10 and FOV_Multiplier set to 1.2)