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This, in turn, requires kernel-mode drivers so that the user's actions can be communicated to the hardware itself. Poorly written audio drivers have been a common source of system instability in Windows, especially with games that make use of extended audio card capabilities.
Developers taking advantage of EAX choose an environment for their game's setting and the sound card uses the mathematical DSP digital filter presets for that environment. The original EAX was quite primitive, only offering 26 presets and 3 parameters for more accurate adjustment of the listener parameters and 1 parameter for the sources.
Define game states; Simulate audio environments; Manage sound integration; Apply the Windows Spatial Audio API, or Dolby Atmos. Wwise allows for on-the-fly audio authoring directly in game. Over a local network, users can create, audition, and tweak sound effects and subtle sound behaviors while the game is being played on another host.
The Miles Sound System was used in its history by over 7,000 video games across 18 platforms. [4] Computer Gaming World stated in 1994 that "Many of the game publishers have decided to support only those sound cards which are supported by the Miles drivers", especially the Sound Blaster .
The FMOD sound system is supplied as a programmer's API and authoring tool, similar to a digital audio workstation. FMOD consists of the following technologies: FMOD Studio - An audio creation tool for games, designed like a digital audio workstation. Succeeds FMOD Designer. FMOD Studio run-time API - A programmer API to interface with FMOD Studio.
WSS 1.0a drivers were released in February 1993. They introduced single-mode DMA, supported games in MS-DOS, Ad Lib and Sound Blaster emulation. [4]WSS 2.0 drivers, released in October 1993, added support for OEM sound cards (Media Vision, Creative Labs, ESS Technology) and included an improved DOS driver (WSSXLAT.EXE) that provided Sound Blaster 16 compatibility for digital sampling. [4]
The MME API or the Windows Multimedia API (also known as WinMM) was the first universal and standardized Windows audio API. Wave sound events played in Windows (up to Windows XP) and MIDI I/O use MME. The devices listed in the Multimedia/Sounds and Audio control panel applet represent the MME API of the sound card driver.
Autodesk Gameware - from Autodesk, includes Scaleform GFx, Kynapse, Beast and HumanIK.; Nvidia GameWorks - visual FX, physics, particle and fluid simulations.; Simplygon - automated 3D content optimization for a variety of assets as vegetation, buildings, scene views etc.