Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: eagl on June 23, 2005, 03:44:01 PM
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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? :)
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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.
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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...
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The problem is the SSE family allows the CPU to do more in parallel than not using them.
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So dual core will help if SSE is disabled? :)
(just kidding)
*pokes skuzzy with giggle stick*