[Juice Daddy]

wouldn't that be up to the drivers rather than dated legacy support?

[zmatt]

if the API doesn't support it then anything the drivers do i moot. The API is the most important link in the hardware to software chain, and M$ decided that Direct Sound will not have support for hardware acceleration. to me that looks like a step backwards, considering the trend nowadays with dishing the tasks out to acceleration cards and extra cpus, instead of one over powerful cpu to do it all.

[mikee]

For me things like music actually sound better with vista than they did with xp anyway

[zmatt]

they should. the windows media player 11 is suppsoed to be an improvement, even though its a cpu hog. but high end audio work (the kind a professional engineer does) will be a little bit harder. cause now even if your sound card supports acceleration (which only the best do) it doesn't matter. so the $300 version of the X-FI cards is a waste of money if you will be using windows Vista.

[mikee]

for me wmp11 is only a hog when I play videos, but for videos I use divx player and they run smooth. but wmp 11 for xp didn't sound this good. are there new features in the vista version besides it being mostly glass like

[zmatt]

im sure there is. a page or to back a list of new features and dropped feature was posted. go take a look. wmp11 in XP stinks IMO. vista its ok.

[EricB]

wmp 11 video codecs sucks. I use nvidia pure video

[zmatt]

why is wmp11 such a cpu hog in XP? ever since i went from 10 to 11 it eats up 50% of my cpu and im dual core! what a crummy program. it sucks because i like to listen to music and play video games at the same time, and itunes makes crack and pop sounds, and wmp slows me down. and i hate winamp, its too cumbersome.

[mikee]

this should work for listening while playing games, doesn't eat up resources either

[mikee]

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...er_Classic.htm