(Note - it appears that this thread has gone into the weeds and is no longer really relevant to the topic of audio gaming...)
FYI Alex, it's pretty much inconceivable to me that your assertion is true; an old Pentium with 256 MB of ram should be able to handle ridiculously complex multi-channel 3D audio. The processing load isn't nearly as heavy for audio as it is for modern video, and any audio-only developer that runs out of horsepower is doing something very, very wrong. Either that, or the operating system/libraries are doing something very, very wrong. For reference, I'm using a custom audio core that I wrote in C/C++ code in the space of about three hours, a core that mixes everything on a per-sample basis using a stream filter approach (simple but very inefficient). Turning on the low level interrupt handler without anything being played out uses 3% of one core of my processor, and playing out 15 things simultaneously raises that to 4%. Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Alex Kenny <alexkenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > While this has een brue in the past, Windows 7 used fewer system > resources than did Vista, and Windows 8 will use even fewer, as it is > being designed to run on tablets and even phones as well as PC's. > > No one is saying you must upgrade to new technology. However, as > previously mentioned, Microsoft does go to great efforts to support > their older technology, much more than companies like Apple or Google, > so we're actually doing a lot better in terms fo Windows XP and VB > support than we would if these products were in the hands of other > tech companies. If you want to stick with old tech, fine. If you want > to use older tech, that's fine. But it's not really fair to make > baseless accusations when it's no longer being supported. > > To bring this back on topic, new technology such as XAudio2 and XNA > will allow the creation of better accessible games. Games will > continue getting more complex, and it will eventually get to the point > where an old XP machine with an old Pentium and 256 MB of RAM just > isn't going to be able to handle a multi-channel, 3D audio > environment, and people will need to upgrade if they want to enjoy > these games. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
