Vista & Directsound/EAX

[dirtymeat80]

take from http://pc.ign.com/articles/759/759538p1.html

Australia, January 29, 2007 - "Windows Vista and DirectX 10 signal a new era in gaming," so says Mark Walker, Microsoft columnist and gaming evangelist. And he's but one of a chorus of voices from within and without Microsoft touting the merits of the next generation of Windows when it comes to gaming.

So imagine your surprise when you fire up one of your favourite games in Vista - say World of Warcraft or Prey - only to find your fancy EAX-endowed soundcard and 5.1 surround speakers are dribbling out flat, unenhanced stereo sound. Then, in a vain attempt to spruce up the audio by enabling EAX, you get a nice taut error message saying EAX is not detected on your hardware. What's going on?
Welcome to the world of Vista audio. And a brave new world it is.

The root of all these problems? Microsoft's Windows team made the bold decision to rewrite the Vista audio stack from the ground up, and in doing so they removed hardware acceleration for DirectSound. That's right. They took hardware support away from the most ubiquitous sound API implemented in games over the past several years.

As a result, in many of today's games, all those feature-laden sound cards, with their multiple channels, audio extensions and hardware accelerated processors, become little better than common garden variety on-board sound running in software mode. Naturally, Creative Labs (amongst others) is pissed.

continues at the link given - I for one wish I woulda read that some odd weeks ago before I went with an Audigy instead of the X-FI

quick edit: I know this will be better for the future of gaming, just sucks now lol

[Nil]

Originally Posted by dirtymeat80

take from http://pc.ign.com/articles/759/759538p1.html


continues at the link given - I for one wish I woulda read that some odd weeks ago before I went with an Audigy instead of the X-FI

quick edit: I know this will be better for the future of gaming, just sucks now lol

Vista is a real mess for gamers right now. Stay far away.

[Fyrestrom]

Wow!

This just reminds me why I don't upgrade my OS unless I absolutely have to. Heck I haven't even moved to XP yet...lol

I was hoping for a steep price break on XP now.... but I just don't see it yet.

[Nil]

Originally Posted by Fyrestrom

Wow!

This just reminds me why I don't upgrade my OS unless I absolutely have to. Heck I haven't even moved to XP yet...lol

I was hoping for a steep price break on XP now.... but I just don't see it yet.

You probably won't. They really want people to move to Vista. Without going into a big tirade, they have alot to gain from people being on Vista.

[dprundle]

I know this is sort of off topic, but I hope they get vanguard working on ubuntu soon. I prefer linux over Windows - I think bill gates is a crook.

[Nil]

Originally Posted by dprundle

I think bill gates is a crook.

I have no idea why you'd think that. He's a good Businessman. How dare he charge as much as he can get away with for his products! In a free capitalist society.

Personal attacks aside, I'd like to see Linux as a legitimate gaming platform as well. Choice is always good.

[cthulhu522]

A friend installed Vista and it took him a solid day to get it working. :/ Another friend did the same and had all kinds of issues. While I cant wait to get it, I think I am going to wait a bit. I rushed out and bought every version of windows since 95 came out. Umm, I vow not to do it again.

Originally Posted by Nil

I have no idea why you'd think that. He's a good Businessman. How dare he charge as much as he can get away with for his products! In a free capitalist society.

Personal attacks aside, I'd like to see Linux as a legitimate gaming platform as well. Choice is always good.

Agreed... I like free software. Especially free software that works, and linux works (just not for games).

[Aen]

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