Sound Menu

[Toolman]

Does anyone happen to know what the difference between Directsound & OpenAL is in the System Settings menu?

Tim.

[Toolman]

Doesn't seem to have any effect to me, is it like Sound card sound as opposed to Windows sound?

[Ade_Law]

its just a different way of processing it within the PC. I believe some sound cards are biased towards one or the other. If you notice no difference dont worry about it.

Ade

[Toolman]

I am running Phoenix on a old Athlon3400 pc with a AGP graphics card at the moment & the performance is surprisingly not bad. Just wondered if there was any difference in the settings, but as you say can't see any difference.

Tim.

[Rat]

They're just competing methods of doing the same thing. Directsound is Microsofts. OpenAL is a product from the open source community. In the same vein as directX and OpenGL for graphics.

As to benefits of using either one, I did read that with the new methods used in windows Vista, directsound no longer offered hardware acceleration. I'm not sure if the changes will have accected openAL in the same way, but being an open standard, hardware manufacturers do have the opertunity to still offer hardware benefits to software using this library.

[Mikee]

I m running the Microsoft Digital sound sytem. USB connection No sound card in PC.. sounds mint... more so my 60's/70's music heheehehheh!!!! Old git you see

[Toolman]

Interesting thanks, so the question is does my sound chip have hardware support for OpenAL of not.

Tim.

[Mikee]

Interesting thanks, so the question is does my sound chip have hardware support for OpenAL of not.

Tim.

Do a google search on OpenAl.. the answer there in all the jargon... thing is what are you expecting other than a heli sound... which in all honesty does'nt sound correct for either nitro or electric... It's more a visual experience rather than a concert experience



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