Re: Is a Creative sound card required to use OpenAL?

Eric Wing <[email protected]>
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On 2/21/11, Phillip Pi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is a Creative sound card required to use OpenAL or can any audio device
> use it like those generic onboard audio on motherboards?
>
> Thank you in advance. :)
>
> Best regards,
> Phillip
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A Creative Labs card is not required for OpenAL.
Also, you have (at least) two implementation choices for Windows.
Creative Labs provides an OpenAL implementation, and OpenAL Soft
provides a pure software based implementation of OpenAL.

-Eric
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