Author Topic: Skuzzy - audigy news? (Read 299 times)

eagl · « **on:** June 23, 2005, 03:44:01 PM »

Skuzzy,

Any word on your audigy testing?

On another note, what do you think about Nvidia's upcoming 80 series drivers being multi-threaded for dual core cpus?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2005, 03:52:44 PM »

NVidia's drivers. Nice marketing gimmick or they are going to violate the stuffing out of the Windows driver API, which gaurantees no end of problems if they do.

I get to work on the Audigy stuff on weekends (other time is already used up). I am still digging for all the places they use SSE2 instructions. Not a simple flag, like I had hoped.
I found one case, which basically means the function does not do anything if SSE2 is not available.
It has my curiousity peaked.

eagl · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2005, 04:05:11 PM »

It almost sounds like AMD users should find and use the oldest possible soundblaster drivers to make sure they minimize the use of later generation intel-specific instructions. A64 only recently got SSE3...

Skuzzy · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2005, 04:49:14 PM »

The problem is the SSE family allows the CPU to do more in parallel than not using them.

eagl · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2005, 03:04:43 AM »

So dual core will help if SSE is disabled?

(just kidding)

*pokes skuzzy with giggle stick*