DirectSound problems reported with VISTA - IrrKlang working?

[Grey Lantern]

I mentioned this in another thread but thought I would highlight it. does anyone know if IrrKlang works on vista (any version/beta/rc). The reason I ask is that it (Vista) has some problems with Direct Sound apps/wrappers from what I've seen on the net and Audiere for example apparently doesn't work out of the box with default 'directsound' device on windows. Using 'winmm' device works but can be slow/high latency with delayed sound.

So, does anyone have any more info on this "problem" and if/how it affects irrKlang and similar sound libs. I hear OpenAL may be the solution but that's overkill.

[niko]

So, does anyone have any more info on this "problem" and if/how it affects irrKlang and similar sound libs. I hear OpenAL may be the solution but that's overkill.

I get a lot of feature requests and feedback from users, and nobody complained that irrKlang won't work with vista yet. In addition, irrKlang will support winmm in the near future as well, so you really don't need to worry.

[jam]

The OpenAL website has an article about the removal of DirectSound3D and DirectSound from Vista. I think this is what you are trying to highlight?


http://openal.org/openal_vista.html