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Too bad the new audio stack breaks old games.

I just heard last week that every sound card that provides hardware acceleration of audio thru DirectSound will get iced out by Vista because the new stack has done away with the Hardware Abstraction Layer.

While it's a good idea to get as much stuff out of the kernel as possible - M$ is probably tired of Windows getting blamed for poor HW drivers - the side effect of progress is the past get kicked to the curb and any games or cards that can't run the OpenAL API are hosed and will revert to plain old stereo.

I'm surprised this hasn't been more known sooner. Creative has had some statements about this in the past week.

Posted by: DirkBelig   Posted on: 11/11/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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