(01-12-2011, 06:46 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Quote:since you do alot of audio work you maybe want to get a dedicated sound card to relieve the load off your CPU even though your CPU can probably do the work fine but your playback will be better especially when you start to buy those studio monitors if you go that far.
At the moment the only backend that pc audio cards can hardware accelerate is openAL, and even then it's very limited (pretty much just pcm mixing and post-processing, occasionally decoding if the application is set up using the proper api). Anything else would require a wrapper with an api hook. If he wants it for audio quality sure. But buying an audio hard to try and relieve cpu load from decoding is stupid in this day and age.
true. i haven't had a sound card since the soundblaster 16 with the old school game controller port in the back for the MS sidewinder lmao
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