On Monday 23 February 2009 4:31:44 am Scott Mayo wrote:
> The device comes back as Generic Software (it's the only device that shows
> up), and that's what I open.
That's Creative's software driver, which only does stereo output. You'll need
to make sure OpenAL Soft's DLL is being found and used if you want it for 5.1
output.
> I know I'm on a list run by Creative and that some folk here may be
> employees, but can anyone recommend a decent quality USB sound card that is
> known to work flawlessly with openAL and 5.1? I need reliable position
> control over a handful of sources. And where can I get the latest openAL
> dll?
The latest DLLs are available from
http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/Forms/AllItems.aspxAs long as your sound card is capable of 5.1 output in DirectSound, OpenAL
Soft should have no problems working with it. If you want hardware
acceleration, you'll either need a hardware OpenAL driver (only Creative makes
some, currently, AFAIK), or accelerated DirectSound3D (however Windows Vista/7
don't allow this anymore).
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