[geeks] Best Vista story I've seen

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:52:07PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> I also heard that a lot of Vista sound drivers are unaccelerated, which seems
> to jive with previous Microsoft statements about not supporting accelerated
> sound hardware.

Interestingly, DirectSound3D support is dropped.  Also dropped is
hardware mixing for DirectSound.  However, OpenAL drivers can still
accellerate whatever they want to, so games that chose to use OpenAL (a
cross platform standard, prefered by Apple and supported on Linux) will
still get accelerated sound.  
 
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