XAudio2 is the official successor for Windows Vista-Windows 11. Compatibility bits are left in the OS for basic use with the older DX APIs. When I was poking through the Microsoft dev site, I found out that hardware accelerated audio had returned for 10/11, but it's by no means a thing implemented on the driver side, so you won't find it without a driver that activates it. There are older threads that detail what's what, in regards to 3D audio and present emulation or hardware/software support.

RetroGamer4Ever wrote on 2024-03-17, 19:38:

XAudio2 is the official successor for Windows Vista-Windows 11. Compatibility bits are left in the OS for basic use with the older DX APIs. When I was poking through the Microsoft dev site, I found out that hardware accelerated audio had returned for 10/11, but it's by no means a thing implemented on the driver side, so you won't find it without a driver that activates it. There are older threads that detail what's what, in regards to 3D audio and present emulation or hardware/software support.

So in that regards all modern games are bound to use XAudio2 (modern in sense, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, gta v, etc atleast).

Also that explains Windows Vista development for over an year was halted in a deprecated, software emulated DSound?

(Also then what do WASAPI, WMA, Core Audio do?)

Poke around here and you can get all the details on Windows 10 and 11 Audio architecture, along with what still works and what doesn't....

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-har … s-new-for-audio

RetroGamer4Ever wrote on 2024-03-17, 20:17:

Poke around here and you can get all the details on Windows 10 and 11 Audio architecture, along with what still works and what doesn't....

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-har … s-new-for-audio

They still never mention XAudio2, closest is a session API IXAudio2. There is Media Foundation, but it is more likely a DShow successor.

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-03-17, 20:59:

RetroGamer4Ever wrote on 2024-03-17, 20:17:

Poke around here and you can get all the details on Windows 10 and 11 Audio architecture, along with what still works and what doesn't....

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-har … s-new-for-audio

They still never mention XAudio2, closest is a session API IXAudio2. There is Media Foundation, but it is more likely a DShow successor.

+ What is X3DAudio? It resides in Windows but there's no article on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAudio2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_featu … ck_architecture

feda wrote on 2024-03-18, 06:03:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAudio2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_featu … ck_architecture

The official MS documentation discourages using DeviceTopology API, EndpointVolume API but doesn't talk about alternatives. Smh

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-har … io-architecture

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-03-17, 20:59:

They still never mention XAudio2, closest is a session API IXAudio2.

So? The "I" means interface, that's all. It doesn't suddenly change the entire thing. Direct3D, IDirect3D, doesn't matter.

eddman wrote on 2024-03-18, 15:01:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-har … io-architecture

BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2024-03-17, 20:59:

They still never mention XAudio2, closest is a session API IXAudio2.

So? The "I" means interface, that's all. It doesn't suddenly change the entire thing. Direct3D, IDirect3D, doesn't matter.

Hm I didn't take note of that, so afterall there is a mention of it.