There used to be three big solutions for audio in vista/7. First there is a famous realtek to x-fi mod, enabling some of creative's x-fi features on realtek (realtek only!) onboard chipsets. Then you have a rather unstable and somewhat high cpu usage alchemy app that converts ds and ds3d to openal, for games that either don't have native openal or even the selection between ds3d and openal. And a great solution that was literally deleted from the web :S a universal audio driver that was amazingly lightweight, and pushed all audio hardware to their limits.
@lolatthteotherguy: Ever since I got my dac and my amp, the way I listened to sound really changed. I still keep my x-fi usb around for serious gaming, but for everything else the dac beats it to the punch :) I don't consider myself an audiophile either, but I'm going on that direction. Also, not using lossy formats, using bit-matched modes or using proper calculated resamples do help. Some of these things are controversial, it's going to do with how you think and listen to sound. @Espionage: Would you sacrifice some cpu cycles for full accelerated audio on 7? And what exactly you have outputting sound on your pc? On 31 Dez, 04:48, AngelicTears <[email protected]> wrote: > lol @ users asking from time travellers... :) > > still, i HATE Vista :) > > btw, Tribaljet..is there any way that i could use OpenAL on all games? ive > tried Kane & Lynch 2 btw on my desktop and it uses openAL, it was as good as > the old time Dsound HAL was available... i missed those gaming days... > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM, PL4YaH <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well said Angelic. Heres my positive review for Vista, > > > Like Angelic said, Vista is a pretty bad OS made from Microsoft but > > most good stuff about gaming and features comes from Vista. I mean > > without Vista, There be no Windows 7 and Directx will still stay at 9 > > or 10. Aero theme looks pretty cool too. In fact having Vista > > sometimes makes me look cool having a sickass PC. Vista is also has > > security 5x better than Windows XP. What I didn't mention earlier on > > my post is that my experience from Windows XP I like have a shitload > > of virus's (Excuse my language). From Koobface virus's to BSOD (Blue > > Screen Of Death). I got to admit I never had any problems with Vista > > having virus's. Just the performance makes me lag. Overall my > > experience from Vista is meh, 6/10 Windows XP 8/10 Windows 7 9/10 > > > On Dec 30, 10:54 am, AngelicTears <[email protected]> wrote: > > > lol..i not gonna take back my word on vista... > > > but tribaljet do have a point.. > > > > as im not gonna take back my words, i do have words to back it up :) > > > > Vista is still a bad OS imo, BUT some of the features do really make it > > > worth step for microsoft, like the ability to handle alternative memory > > for > > > cache, readyboost which exist starting in Vista, do really improve > > > performance of everyday computing (mostly noticeable in browsing and some > > > light - medium resource usage games)...not to mention better VM > > management > > > resides in Vista kernel...at the same time the kernel security of Vista > > > which 7 inherits is far more superior that XP despite having a larger > > > footprint, and that base kernel is applied in 7 which till now still > > secure > > > for most non massive damaging malicious software...DirectX 10, vista > > brought > > > it when first launch and that my friend is no doubt a revolution to PC > > > gaming, the effects are much real, the API it selfs is much faster than > > > DiectX 9 API..the same API applied in 7 where DirectX 11 are not so much > > > different than DirectX 10, but added DirectCompute and other stuffs > > making > > > it better..again it's all starting from vista no doubt... > > > > the thing about Vista that i do not like is the way the indexing service > > > behave..it is still indexing even users are using the system, even on > > > background so users cant really notice it consumes somewhat a large > > portion > > > of resource, which imo the main cause of slowdowns in vista, oh and dont > > > forget the indexing service start working on indexing files the moment > > the > > > system start and that is even before u login to desktop..ok, other things > > > again, despite having a better and more secure kernel than XP, other > > parts > > > of Vista is just nonsense, ActiveX and Group Policy security is hackable > > and > > > do have it's loop holes compared to 7 (again 7 is far more superior that > > > vista no doubt)..also as far as DirectX 10 onwards is a great stuff, the > > > fact that they remove 3D sound / A3D / EAX support is just > > disappointing.. > > > let's talk about GUI, no doubt Aero is a good step in windows GUI, i have > > no > > > problem with Aero, but the fact that Vista GUI is messed up and somewhat > > > clotted is undeniable to me, but that's just me, and again 7 win with > > more > > > cleaner interface, but still using the same Aero engine as Vista did, > > > although they did modify 7 window rendering to make it more efficient and > > > resource friendly.. > > > oh and dont forget the readyboot(correct me if im wrong about this > > service > > > name) service have it advantage on replacing XP old prefetch system, but > > in > > > Vista, there are some flaws until they fixed it in 7, readyboot clutters > > the > > > startup cache too much that the hard drive have a hard time loading up > > most > > > of the startup item and other services as well... > > > > there are soo much positive things that i may miss to say, but there are > > > also negative things that i dont like about vista, despite saying that, > > it's > > > all up to users opinion...as for me, again, im not gonna take my words > > that > > > bashing Vista earlier, but i have made my point above ... :) i am > > apologize > > > but that's my opinion... :) > > > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM, tribaljet <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > And what are your thoughts on the matter? > > > > > On 30 Dez, 18:33, lolattheotherguy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > lol no offense but that sounds absolutly "end-user" talk. More like > > an > > > > > opinion. > > > > > -- > > > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > > -- > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
