Microsoft talking DirectX 10.1

[PV5150]

DirectSound no more...bring on Xaudio2

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[Rastalovich]

Is there any tech info regarding this sound change effing existing soundcards ? Or we relying on the likes of Creative to do a driver job ?

Cos quite frankly Creative and upd8ing drivers doesn`t go together too well.

New stuff will be fine I have no doubt.

 

[FarFarAway]

No Creative sound cards will run this as far as I can see. But then I did only have a skim read of the white paper

 

[ionicle]

creative didnt do vista drivers for my webcam, the xp ones work fine....they dont say they do, but they do...

but this should be interesting...onboard sound works ok with DX10, or it seems to for me......

 

[PP Mguire]

I believe this just to be a different way of rendering your sound right? So all cards should work. Or maybe im to tired to think straight.

 

[Allsorts]

Yeah, you would think that it would at least render in software. I can't help thinking that the main 'benefit' is to make it easier to port games between 360 and PC.

 

[PP Mguire]

Which is actualy not to shabby. DiRT is great.

 

[FarFarAway]

I think the main point is that all of Creative's cards extra features will be totally useless...unless by some miracle they make it work for them

 

[Rastalovich]

Think miracle is the right word m8, newer cards on the horizon me thinks.

 

[PP Mguire]

By the way, who said anything about new hardware? Wasn't Microsoft's purpose of changing the audio stack (in Vista) in the first place was to make it all software? And who said it had to be a new "standard"? Wasn't Creative trying to make their products a "standard" because they owned the rights to EAX (and only letting others use EAX 1-2). But it never did. It just sounds like Microsoft is excluding Creative by making their own EAX-like thing.

By the way, it would probably be the motherboard and audio chip manufacturers cashing in on this. But unless I get more info about this and I find out I need a new motherboard, then I'll be

ed. Because I haven't heard of any sound card companies talking about releasing a card that supports these new features. Last big news I heard was that Creative was licensing its EAX technology.

By the way, this is just all speculation on my part.

 

[NickS]

By the way, who said anything about new hardware? Wasn't Microsoft's purpose of changing the audio stack (in Vista) in the first place was to make it all software? And who said it had to be a new "standard"? Wasn't Creative trying to make their products a "standard" because they owned the rights to EAX (and only letting others use EAX 1-2). But it never did. It just sounds like Microsoft is excluding Creative by making their own EAX-like thing.

By the way, it would probably be the motherboard and audio chip manufacturers cashing in on this. But unless I get more info about this and I find out I need a new motherboard, then I'll be ed. Because I haven't heard of any sound card companies talking about releasing a card that supports these new features. Last big news I heard was that Creative was licensing its EAX technology.

By the way, this is just all speculation on my part.

I counted three "By the way's," did I miss any?

 

[PP Mguire]

Ahaha whoops.....

 

[Rastalovich]

By the way, who said anything about new hardware? Wasn't Microsoft's purpose of changing the audio stack (in Vista) in the first place was to make it all software? And who said it had to be a new "standard"? Wasn't Creative trying to make their products a "standard" because they owned the rights to EAX (and only letting others use EAX 1-2). But it never did. It just sounds like Microsoft is excluding Creative by making their own EAX-like thing.

By the way, it would probably be the motherboard and audio chip manufacturers cashing in on this. But unless I get more info about this and I find out I need a new motherboard, then I'll be

ed. Because I haven't heard of any sound card companies talking about releasing a card that supports these new features. Last big news I heard was that Creative was licensing its EAX technology.

By the way, this is just all speculation on my part.

It`s mainly a cash based thing, imo.

I don`t know of any pro cards that spank the likes of an XFi quality wize. There are more expensive pro cards out there, but they aren`t as good as Audigy cards - however they are software and license dependant, which is the catch.

Sure u`re gonna get EAX6,7,8++ advancements and so on, but the basics of the cards are already at an outstanding quality.

Is this a m$ making changes, to make soundcard manufs make changes, that ultimately lead to people having to buy ??

Not a real big fan of EAX tbh.