I think MS is still working on Aureal XP drivers.
[quote:b4661f4bc2] 06/24/01 - Windows XP news
Look ... news!
One of our readers passed along this small video clip from a Microsoft talk, and while it does not mention Aureal by name, it has some interesting information about audio driver development for Windows XP. It's definitely something you should watch if you have a Vortex-based card.
The 2.4 MB video file is in ASF format and requires Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.x to view.
Windows XP Audio Drivers
In the event you don't want to view the clip, here's a snippet of the important part:
"There's one thing I can't tell you about, except that its an audio card. You might be able to guess what company was bought from another company recently. Um, we've actually had to go and get the source code to, and we're doing the things to actually to ... we're doing the investment to get that, that driver up to the right levels, because ... it doesn't meet the bars that we've set for it today, and it doesn't meet our stress stuff. It doesn't meet all the quality bars that we expect of our drivers. And we just gotta keep hammering and hammering and hammering."
So sounds good for the included drivers having full DirectX 8 support. Hopefully it will be for all three chipsets. [/quote:b4661f4bc2]
See it here:
http://www.vortexofsound.com/news.htm
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