The game will continue to enjoy hardware based 3D audio and effects. Instead they will have to rely upon the new Microsoft software mixer that is built into Windows Vista.
As I understand it from experience Microsoft re-wrote the audio layer which in turn screws with many audio drivers. Microsoft has their own HD audio driver, I tried Realtek's apparently vista-ready driver and nothing worked. The only way to keep everything from crashing was to disable sound drivers and services all together.
On a side note, most XP drivers as far as I've tested will not work with Vista remember when drivers would usually work with XP, no such luck now Drivers for my NEC superscript printer that came with XP by default are no longer included with Vista. Also, be sure you have lots of free disc space. Vista Ultimate required 7. I'm still not sure where that disc space went or was used for. Lastly, if you don't have a video card with at least mb on board, you will not get the Aeros Glass 3d wiz-bang interface It's a real driver-mess if you ask me.
Wait for Vista SP2 or wait until you want a new computer; otherwise you'll most likely be buying all new periferal hardware. I've got plenty of disk space, but I'd love to know why I should give up 7GB of it just for an operating system.
I'll probably upgrade to Vista once the service packs start rolling out, but I'm thinking more and more about setting up a dual-boot system with some kind of Linux installation as well.
The content you requested has been removed. Ask a question. Quick access. DirectSound3D allows software developers to write to a single standardized audio API instead of writing code for each audio card manufacturer. This eliminates the need for separate 3D audio libraries. Windows Vista features a completely re-written audio stack based on the Universal Audio Architecture.
Because of the architectural changes in the redesigned audio stack, a direct path from DirectSound to the audio drivers does not exist [1]. DirectSound runs in emulation mode on the Microsoft software mixer. The emulator does not have hardware abstraction, so there is no hardware DirectSound acceleration, meaning hardware and software relying on DirectSound acceleration may have degraded performance.
It's likely a supposed performance hit might not be noticeable, depending on the application and actual system hardware. In the case of hardware 3D audio effects played using DirectSound3D, they will not be playable. A solution for applications that wish to take advantage of hardware accelerated high-quality 3D positional audio is to use OpenAL.
However, this only works if the manufacturer provides an OpenAL driver for their hardware. C-Media , a manufacturer of PC sound card chipsets, also has a solution called Xear3D EX, although it works instead by intercepting DirectSound3D calls transparently in the background without any user intervention.
XAudio 2 provides low-level mixing and signal processing whereas high-level audio authoring and playback are available using XACT and 3D functions via the X3DAudio library. X3DAudio is an abstracted math-driven spatialization helper library that can be replaced by custom 3D behaviors.
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