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AngelGraves13
08-01-07, 05:30 AM
It seems that DirectX 10.1 will have something called XAudio2. The long awaited replacement of DirectSound. We may be seeing hardware accelerated sound as soon as Vista SP1.

http://www.behardware.com/news/8986/directx-10-1-and-xaudio2.html

Direct3D 10.1 is an incremental, side-by-side update to Direct3D 10.0 that provides a series of new rendering features that will be available in an upcoming generation of graphics hardware.

* TextureCube Arrays which are dynamically indexable in shader code.
* An updated shader model (shader model 4.1).
* The ability to select the MSAA sample pattern for a resource from a palette of patterns, and retrieve the corresponding sample positions.
* The ability to render to block-compressed textures.
* More flexibility with respect to copying of resources.
* Support for blending on all unorm and snorm formats.
DRen72
08-01-07, 08:02 AM
So this is what the X-Fi2 and 9800GTS/GTX will be all about then.
nekrosoft13
08-01-07, 08:05 AM
We may be seeing hardware accelerated sound as soon as Vista SP1.



you can already have hardware accelerated sound
SeriTonin
08-01-07, 01:11 PM
What a crock. You mean to tell me these features couldn't be implemented into dx10? I mean, they only sat on it for what? 4 years? Give me a break. Always a new gimmick to make the loyal have to get the next piece of hardware. I'm starting to fear I might have to go console 100% sooner than later. =/
Rakeesh
08-01-07, 02:12 PM
The long awaited replacement of DirectSound. We may be seeing hardware accelerated sound as soon as Vista SP1.

I don't think so. Audio HAL was removed because it is yet another HAL layer that can be a source of crashes, exploits, etc. In the days when we had slower processors, it made sense. But now it isn't worth it anymore, so Microsoft removed it.

Xaudio2 is just a replacement for all things directsound, and will carry many more features than directsound.

Remember, directsound wasn't removed from vista, only the HAL was removed.
grey_1
08-01-07, 03:41 PM
Will this mean having to go through another round of creative drivers? I really dread that.
AngelGraves13
08-01-07, 11:51 PM
I think this means that we won't HAVE to use OpenAL anymore to get hardware sound, but details are still not known.
DRen72
08-02-07, 07:16 AM
Will this mean having to go through another round of creative drivers? I really dread that.Probably worse. I bet it means the X-Fi cards will be obsolete and we'll "have" to get the X-Fi2 cards. :thumbdwn: