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[satsun]

Please don't, OpenAL imo is much better sound API than FMOD for the simple reason that it supports real 3D sound (and also hardware sound acceleration) FMOD fakes 3D sound and is only software based (CPU).

If ditching openAL is even considered then they should at least try OpenAL_soft (not maintained by Creative but by the open source community) or Rapture3D (based on the last OpenAL version before Creative bought the API) this last one is really awesome because it uses binaural sound when listen with headphones (and it works right now with Amnesia because it uses OpenAL).

I think I've given up on hardware acceleration. I have an X-Fi Titanium PCI-E card and if I don't use a work-around for Amnesia (and Killing Floor) then I get BSOD due to an OpenAL issue on 64bit OS'es. Creative doesn't seem to care about that problem since they want people to buy their newer non-HW accelerated cards that probably don't have the problem and I'm not sure that game developers can resolve the issue or care to because Frictional's solution to the X-Fi OpenAL BSOD problem with Amnesia was to just disable hardware-accelerated OpenAL.

I know that APIs like FMOD have inferior positioning but I think that most game developers have completely given up on hardware acceleration; the only reason I hang on to my X-Fi is because it has 7.1 outputs on it and modern Creative cards only have 5.1 outputs.

If Fritcional can fix the OpenAL BSOD on 64bit operating systems, then that would be great but if not then they should just dump OpenAL and move on to something that would increase compatibility.

It's too bad that Creative makes some decent sound cards but can't make drivers for them. They're the ATi/AMD of sound cards.