[geeks] Best Vista story I've seen

[Lionel Peterson]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:11, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 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.  

Maybe I'm just being dense, but what, exactly is an accelerated sound
driver?

Lionel