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That one is AMD vendor locked, but yeah. Although I wasn't thinking of it as related to GPUs, just the gaming experience in general, sound is pretty important, fmod is not doing it well enough, even direct sound is a lacking technology. This is something that Khronos could seriously innovate in, something along the lines of trueaudio but open source and cross platform without any hardware dependencies or vendor locking, and well... it'd just be nice to have a proper gaming sound api on Linux that can properly interface with ALSA, unlike FMOD which goes all sorts of wrong if you don't have pulseaudio (and even with pulseaudio it's not guaranteed to work right).
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostPossibly stupid question, but what does that have to do with GPUs?
At Nvidia’s special Editors Day event in Austin, Texas, the company unveiled an enhancement to it’s VRWorks APIs which now includes what it says is the first “Physically Based Acoustic Simulator Engine”, accelerated by Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia and AMD’s focus on claiming the high ground in virtual reality has been under way place for some time …
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Originally posted by rabcor View PostThat one is AMD vendor locked, but yeah.
But yeah, there is no way in hell that NVIDIA will use that too.
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Originally posted by rabcor View PostActually I would've liked it if they'd expand and make a vulkan/opengl associated open sound api (like directx has direct sound; I'm gettin kinda tired of fmod to be honest)
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostDirectsound is long gone. It's age ended with dx9. Now MS uses a thing called uaa. Drivers for it sucked ass at first, but it's actually gotten pretty damn good. It's way better than PA/Alsa.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostBetter in what way? Apart from "way better driver support" which is 99% Alsa's responsibility on linux anyway.
It's mostly PA fault, but Alsa is to blame as well, they try to do way too much in the kernel and a lot of those functions should be in userspace. PA should never have needed to be conceived.
EDIT: Basically it boils down to, "Don't touch the stream!"Last edited by duby229; 27 July 2016, 02:39 PM.
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