The Windows and Windows Software Megathread

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Windows and Windows Software Megathread

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

Jigoku San posted:

Vista redid the audio stack and got rid of hardware accelerated audio. Games are using OpenAL for that stuff now I think.

But EAX would never have worked on a Asus p5b, I have one and it never did, or it was eax v1.0 and all it added was massive reverb.

Most recent games just use software audio processing since it's barely a blip on a modern CPU, is completely cross platform and isn't locked into a single vendor for decent support.

The uproar when all the 16 year olds found out their Creative Mega Platinum Fatal-One-Ty X-Fi cards wouldn't do anything special under Vista was pretty funny though.

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The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

Freakazoid_ posted:

CCCP is where it's at.

And despite them dropping zoom player, I still use it but without taking zoom's recommended codecs. I tried that once on a lark and got sweetpacks for my trouble.

Codec packs? Zoom player? Did we travel 15 years back in time?

These days just use MPC-HC or VLC.

Don't install codec packs. Never install codec packs.

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