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Audio card (chip if you have an integrated solution on your motherboard) are the component necessary to play or record sounds on your PC.
The major producers in this field are Realtek, ASUSTeK, Creative, VIA.
AMD and Nvidia are also audio chip producers, since the arrival of HDMI outputs.
Set up OpenAL
- ADI, Creative and nForce are already ready out of the box
- Make sure to be running latest libraries
- Default Windows output device must match OAL device name for native implementations to work and "Generic Hardware" fallback device to appear[1]
Asus
Realtek
Universal
Restore legacy audio effects on newer OS
DirectSound hardware path
- Starting with Windows Vista and its new audio stack, DirectSound applications are rendered entirely in an user-mode software audio session[2]
- Most games developed in the preceding decade will experience problems going from the simple lack of EAX effects to the complete absence of surround sound[3]
Asus
Creative
Realtek
A3D
- Lists of Aureal 3-Dimensional enabled games can be found here and here
- A3D 1.0 is supported out of the box by C-Media based boards (via Xear3D[4]), X-Fi and older based devices and older VIA drivers
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