Installation doubts

[AndreaColombo86]

Hello,

I’m trying to use this mod in Borderlands 2 as shown in this video:

https://youtu.be/QRqihwgN3Tw?is=7lKXvp8WGyn3yovT

I think I got it working, but some doubts still plague me. Here’s what I did:

1. Installed Creative’s OpenAL. This was easy, as it comes with its own handy executable.
2. Installed OpenAL Soft. This is where my doubts start. If I interpreted the readme correctly, all I needed to do on my Win11 installation was copy one file to the System32 folder, which is what I did. Should I have done more? Did I fundamentally misinterpret the readme?
3. Unzipped DSOAL in the game’s directory.
4. Copied the alsoft.ini settings from the aforementioned video’s description to the file in the game’s directory.
5. Registered dsound.dll as described on the IndirectSound website. There’s a file over there that you can use to automatically add all necessary registry strings, so I used that.
6. Created an OpenAL/HRTF folder inside my AppData folder and placed the relevant HRTF file inside it. Doubt: my alsoft.ini is actually in AppData/Roaming. Should my OpenAL/HRTF folder also be in AppData/Roaming? Or is it fine in AppData?

Also, should there be more inside the OpenAL folder in AppData?

I hope someone can help me out :)

Thanks in advance!
Andrea

[mirh]

Point 1 and 2 are useless, at least with regards to using dsoal.
You should just do 5 (here) and extract this.

[AndreaColombo86]

Point 1 and 2 are useless, at least with regards to using dsoal. You should just do 5 (here) and extract this.

Thank you for your reply.

What about the steps necessary to use a specific HRTF profile?

EDIT: can I run the registry patch you linked if I’ve already run the one on IndirectSound’s website? Or will that result in countless duplicated registry entries? (Although I do have jv16 Powertools installed, so duped registry keys should get cleaned easily)

[mirh]

Yeah, no problem running it twice.
Idk for HRTF as by the time I usually get to fix the most cursed games, I have lost all the will to play.

[kcat]

Regarding AppData, it's probably AppData/Roaming. OpenAL Soft will look in the %AppData%/openal/hrtf folder for the mhr files, where %AppData% denotes the AppData environment variable. On older Windows versions, that would be the AppData folder, but newer versions split that into Roaming, Local, and some other sub-folders, with Roaming being what AppData was originally used for.