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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53573

There's been a lot of concerns for gamers lately with the
news that EAX is 90% broken in Vista. Microsoft stopped sound from having direct access to sound hardware in order to decrease the number of BSOD's caused by audio. While Creative says that OpenAL is going to be widely used, details from Tomas Neumann,

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Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

Yeah! Audio is so 1960'ish. Besides most people today are deaf anyway Very Happy

lmer · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject:

A proper Reverb effect uses quite a bit of processing power. Dunno what other DSPs they use but a DSP on non dedicated hardware takes its toll.

xxxx · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject:

sound sucks in Farcry and it wont change in Crysis.. whoppee. Farcry the game everyone wears fuzzy bunny slippers and bushes make nearly no noise and guns that have the worst sound ever...Obviously Crytek needs to hire a sound engineer that has a brain and they obviously haven't. But the only people I see to suffer from CPU taxing is the single core users. I wouldn't/can't believe with a dual core processor that going to the CPU even for reverb is gonna do much whether you are using a X-Fi or onboard audio...

Safer · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject:

Kind of feel it in the gut that many developers who are trying their own sulutions have absolutly no idéa what they are doing. Stick to OpenAL or some other sound engine or hardware pass.

I wish that more people could use whatever incarnation of it's sound engine that Monolith used for FEAR if they want everything to run in a software mode - and even if it runs in software mode, the sound output is fantastic and deep to say the least.

(And yes - just played through FEAR (again) and then Extraction Point last night - just love the games Razz

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