First post, by BEEN_Nath_58
Back in mid-2000s DirectSound was the "notable" API for a stong sound application, unless you use MME waveOut directly.
Since DirectSound lost direct hardware access, what replaced it?
Some sources point to Wasapi, some to XAudio2, others Windows Core Audio, then Windows Media Audio, XACT3.
What's the actual successor to it? It could be also that DirectSound means a LOT of things, which got divided into multiple things (and thus DIFFERENT successors?). What do you think?
(I suspected XAudio2, but it was released over 1 year after Windows Vista, what would applications rely on other than waveOut in that period for accelerated audio? That brought the confusion in my assumption and hence this whole thread)
previously known as Discrete_BOB_058