Am Donnerstag 30 November 2006 08:44 schrieb Steven Edwards: > On 11/30/06, Fabian Cenedese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vista drops DirectSound or better said, the EAX effects won't work > > anymore. That's why Creative Labs switches over to OpenAL. So it might > > become much more important in the future. > > If Creative switched over to using it then I expect all of the future > drivers they post that are WHQL will have this dll. I'd say this makes > it worth installing. Someone should check if new vista driver > downloads from Creative include this or even if Windows Update for > Vista loads it. What makes it worth including it in wine is that a huge number of games use it too. Thunking directly to the Linux / macos openal lib avoids the whole openal->directsound->winmm->driver->linux audio api rollercoaster.
That said, its not a standard part of windows. There may be other simmilar libs(like the Palm Desktop libs I considered writing once). How about a seperate wine-3rdpartylibs package containing such things?
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