Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-04, 10:46

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[*]What is the WASAPI? Microsoft's attempt to oust Steinberg with their ASIO. Well, so that audiophiles don’t make a fuss. An interface that allows low latency transmission of a bit-accurate stream to a sound card. Yes that talks about the exclusive mode WASAPI, but how would you program it for …

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Windows audio regressions?

Posted on 2023-10-04, 10:22

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Over the years, I have seen certain probelms in the sound rendering on Windows with little to no explanation to them. However there seems to be a pattern: Max Payne: certain game sound are muted. IndirectSound fixes them (how?). A precursor to the IndirectSound fix was to convert all the APDCM* …

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Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-04, 09:25

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What is the Wave Mapper? Was it one (or one of the multiple predecessors of DSound (that is still used today)? = WinMM Wave Mapper, just like Midi Mapper is a way for you (as a developer using the winmm API) to get a default output device without having to do the enumeration and choosing of …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2023-10-04, 09:23

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I have appended your post to my first post Or check to click "EXE (327MB)*" for fast download - https://gpuopen.com/archived/radeon-hd-4800-series-real-time-demos/ If you shouldn't apologize me for your wrong name of demo (Dolphin), I get confusion, silly, angry and sad because I do NEVER say " …

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Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-04, 04:15

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Another confusion made from: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=322862#p322862 jonpol talks about wanting to use Wasapi over XAudio2, but I interpret that XAudio2/Dsound has to stay on top of Wasapi and throw it's instructions on a wasapi sessions. If there's no XAudio2, then how? I could assume …

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Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-03, 20:27

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From the Link in my prev message, I come to the following conclusion: Wave Mapper (broadly, WINMM) was the predecessor of Dsound XAudio2 is the successor of DSound 2007-2008, when Vista launched and there was no XAudio2, MS still supported Dsound, but only in SW mode. This should mean the earliest …

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Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-03, 19:44

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There is some additional info in the reference links of the Wikipedia article: Overview of DirectSound Hardware Acceleration KSNODETYPE_3D_EFFECTS KSDS3D_BUFFER_ALL KSDS3D_LISTENER_ALL I'm not sure if that info is from before the merger or after, but it might be relevant. Anyhow, from personal …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2023-10-03, 19:29

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I didn't find the demo to download, but I know it exists. Links I tried appear to be dead. Could you help with getting that in some way? From your next post it appears you have found it eventually, but in case you haven't, check the link for "ATI/AMD Radeon demos, part 2 (Radeon HD 3000 to Radeon …

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Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-03, 18:50

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That links to DSound. I mentioned DSound3D From the article that I linked: In DirectX 8, DirectSound and DirectSound3D (DS3D) were officially merged and given the name DirectX Audio, however the API is still commonly referred to as DirectSound. To be specific I am talking about the old, before …

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Re: Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-03, 18:40

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There's fairly detailed Wikipedia article on DirectSound, with reference links for further reading. As for immediate successors, many games developed during the WinXP -> Vista -> Win7 transitional period used OpenAL. Yes there was OpenAL, but did MS offer nothing in that period? That links to …

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Predecessors and successors for DirectSound and DirectSound3D on Windows

Posted on 2023-10-03, 17:31

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There could be a lot of parts to the answers so I will try to be specific. Feel free to correct me: Games in early 2000s had started setting requirement for DirectX (should be specifically DirectSound?) for the games. What did DirectSound do for the games, what were the other sound components needed …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2023-10-03, 17:12

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I tried Froblins now, it doesn't work on any of my Nvidia HW. Probably it uses some exclusive AMD checks that Nvidia can't reproduce.

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Re: Solved. Slow USB on certain chipset with windows 10. Especially Ivy Bridge chipsets (all).

Posted on 2023-10-03, 16:56

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I don't recall that happening with my Ivy Bridge machine with Win10

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2023-10-03, 16:10

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...... (me) -Yes ----------- ...... (me) -Paste the d3d9.dll file from the x86 folder to the folder containing the exe of the demo You don't make sense. :/ because see 3 screenshots: - Radeon 8500 up to only 256MB radeon 8500 - only up to 256MB.jpg - no D3D by dgVoodoo2 pasted no dgvoodoo2 using. …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2023-10-03, 10:27

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Set your card as the ATI Radeon card from the dgVoodoo2 panel. I choose "ATi Radeon 8500" in "Videocard" of "DirectX" separator on dgVoodoo2!??????? Yes Set your card as the ATI Radeon card from the dgVoodoo2 panel. But I need D3D11.dll or D3D10_1.dll (not Microsoft but yes modded to dgVoodoo v2.xx …

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Re: List of video card tech demos

Posted on 2023-10-02, 15:33

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Hello. I've a new GeForce RTX 4090. :D I tried to use dgVoodoo2 for add Radeon HD 4800 Froblins and for change VRAM to 512MB and to run this demo... but I got in SushiLog.txt file: === Sushi 3.1 Build 300 (Compiled on May 12 2009 18:38:10) [11:02:56] Unable to get audio driver name: No errors. [11: …

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Re: List of applications utilising WinDirect

Posted on 2023-10-02, 04:47

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There is no "WinHexen" There is no "WinHexen" WinHexen V0.2 [30/05/99] ------------------------- WinHexen is a Win32 port of the Raven's Hexen sources. For graphics rendering, Windows GDI is used. The MIDAS library is used for sound processing. WinHexen compiles with Microsoft Visual C V4.0 & V5.0 …

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Re: UNFIXED: Mystery of the Druids (2001)

Posted on 2023-10-01, 20:41

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And here's the graphical issue

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Re: WinDirect and MGL

Posted on 2023-10-01, 19:13

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Another important question, is WinDirect computed with MGL libraries or it could be independent of MGL. Could be independent of MGL. Is there any SDK and demo for WinDirect? Yes, they can be still obtained on the following link: http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/scitech/ The …

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List of applications utilising WinDirect

Posted on 2023-10-01, 19:11

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From the help of @Gmlb256 I was able to track down a few games that utilise the WinDirect API for graphics: WinQuake Hexen II Grand Theft Auto Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow Total Mayhem Balls of Steel v1.0 The list is too small for now, but I invite others to help in expanding the list.

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