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Geek Culture / Legacy Creative sound cards and Vista

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Phaelax
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Posted: 6th Jan 2011 13:58
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Since I don't use Vista, I haven't noticed this personally, but I just read an article talking about how Vista and 7 removed the DirectSound hardware support and emulate it in software. Creative has created Alchemy for free that intercepts the DirectSound calls and sends them to OpenAL APIs which has access to the hardware.
http://www.creative.com/soundblaster/alchemy/

I came across this while reading this article:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/upgrades/whatever-happened-to-pc-soundcards--668292

Maybe some of you were already aware of this, but I thought I'd share.

"Only the educated are free" ~Epictetus
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." ~Einstein
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Fallout
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Posted: 6th Jan 2011 16:52
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Could be useful, thanks Phaelax. I run XP virtual machines and dual boots on both my machines because of many legacy issues, and one of the main ones is sound issues. I'll give this a try.

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