Zardoz5 wrote on Jan 4, 2011, 02:10:
noman wrote on Jan 3, 2011, 02:53:
Zardoz5 wrote on Jan 2, 2011, 19:38:
No it doesn't. For kicks I installed 1942 in Windows 7's XP VM and the game wouldn't even start.
Yes, but 1942 works fine in Windows7 any way.
For you perhaps, but for me it doesn't.
The audio in BF Vietnam and 1942 is screwed up for me in Win 7 Pro x64. I'm missing the music (noooo) and some sounds in Vietnam and the audio is screwy in 1942. I tried both my onboard sound card and a Creative POS and have had no luck either way. It must be the mix of my hardware and DICE's audio drivers.
Tried openAL and/or alchemy? Vista/7 did away with the directsound and went an entirely different way. Oddly enough the model MS went to instead is closer to the xbox, thus helping ports of games.
As a result, unless using something like openAL, there's sound problems with many older games, and surround doesn't work, etc. Alchemy is creative's driver to translate those directsound calls into openAL.
This comment was edited on Jan 4, 2011, 06:32.