Open AL and X-Fi?

[harlequin]

still in use anywhere? not seen many new games using Open Al or am i missing something and its being used?

[harlequin]

looks like hardware sound will be back with windows 8

[Irontiger]

If it's still in use, I wouldn't notice. I forgot that I'm not running sound through my onboard X-fi anymore, but instead through my GPU over HDMI. I don't care for the stupid "trapped at the bottom of a well" echo effects that EAX applies to games, anyway.

[hellob]

looks like hardware sound will be back with windows 8

I would like to see your source for this as I am now interested in windows 8.

If it's still in use, I wouldn't notice. I forgot that I'm not running sound through my onboard X-fi anymore, but instead through my GPU over HDMI. I don't care for the stupid "trapped at the bottom of a well" echo effects that EAX applies to games, anyway.

There is one game in particular which used EAX effects very well: FEAR1. Aside from that, not many games used EAX or implemented it very well. I just hope microsoft would re-add hardware support for directsound so I don't have to use loopholes to get a working sound system.

[harlequin]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...dware/br259116


and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...dware/hh439707


which is using

WASAPI

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

nothing though about Dirctsound being hardware accelerated , but you can bet creative labs will be working on something - since ALchemy reroutes suitable sound through OpenAL to hardware for acceleration

(done some reading around since i posted the thread)

[icemanchilled]

Apparently quite a few games still use it. Like Dirt 2 and 3, F1 2010/11, all the Stalker games, Killing Floor, Bioshock games and i'm sure others too.