Infinity Sounds is a mod for Baldur's Gate II that aims to improve many sonic aspects of the game. The mod allows you to, e.g., restore all the classic Baldur's Gate sounds, remedy a lot of audio-related issues, overhaul creature sounds, revive EAX support, recover unused voiceovers, and tweak NPC soundsets.
The highlight of this version is a new component: Enhance Positional Audio. While the EEs don't support EAX, positional audio still works through OpenAL, the default API. Unfortunately, due to the lack of configurability, many find the listening experience inadequate, especially with headphones. This is mostly because of the exaggerated panning that splits sounds into either the left or right channel. The new component adds the configurable software implementation of the API, OpenAL Soft, with crossfeed filters enabled to mitigate the channel separation.
Changes in this release
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New component: Enhance Positional Audio
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Restore NPC Voiceovers: German voiceover transcription (thanks to Ychap)
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Restore NPC Voiceovers: Russian subtitles translation (thanks to yota13)
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Restore NPC Voiceovers: Polish voiceover transcription
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Restore NPC Voiceovers: restored Aerie's minor unused voiceover (thanks to Ychap)
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Restore BG1 Spellcasting Sounds: restricted the BG1 variant of eff_m10.wav to Dispel Magic and Remove Magic
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Tweak Sound Channel Volume Levels: disabled the hardcoded volume variation of armor movement sounds
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Tweak Sound Channel Volume Levels: attenuated footsteps and armor movement sounds
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Restore & Tweak Soundsets: amplified the walking sounds of ghouls, wolves, and dogs
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Tweak Existence Sound Delay: increased the existence sound delay of several creature types
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Support for translations with UTF-8 character encoding
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Compatibility with BG2 Fixpack EE-style GTU
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Updated DSOAL to r659 and OpenAL Soft to r9933
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Repackaged with Windows, macOS, and Linux installers in a single ZIP archive (thanks to Argent77)
To learn more about this mod, visit its GitHub page. If you're interested in SHS modding projects, join our Discord server or forums.
https://www.gibberlings3.net/forums/topi...ed-to-v21/