(05-30-2014, 10:39 AM)purpasmart96 Wrote: wait, didn't dsound allow direct access to hardware sound?
Windows Vista/7 dropped DirectSound hardware acceleration
Quote:DirectSound, DirectMusic and other APIs such as MME are emulated as WASAPI Session instances.
Quote:WASAPI audio stack in Windows 8 introduces support for "hardware offloading" of multiple audio streams to the audio card for mixing and effect processing