Asio & openal support in recent nforce audio drivers

Hi there,
maybe i just didn't recognize someone else writing about it -- anyway here is what i discouvered in the nforce.zip:
[c:\transfer\nforce\audiodrv]ls
Volume in drive C is Enforcer Serial number is 944C:DF88
Directory of C:\Transfer\nforce\audiodrv\*
20.10.2002 20:11 .
20.10.2002 20:11 ..
18.10.2002 13:18 5.120 alut.dll
18.10.2002 13:18 4.096 nvack.dll
18.10.2002 13:18 218.880 nvapu.sys
18.10.2002 13:18 60.288 nvarm.sys
18.10.2002 13:18 19.968 nvasio.dll
18.10.2002 13:18 13.184 nvax.sys
18.10.2002 13:18 13.440 nvax9x.sys
18.10.2002 13:18 15.490 nvmcp.cat
18.10.2002 13:18 25.719 nvmcp.inf
18.10.2002 13:18 780.160 nvmcp.sys
18.10.2002 13:18 10.240 nvmpu401.sys
18.10.2002 13:18 28.160 nvopenal.dll
18.10.2002 13:18 44.032 openal32.dll
1.238.777 bytes in 13 files and 2 dirs 1.261.568 bytes allocated
7.187.054.592 bytes free
[c:\transfer\nforce\audiodrv]
nvasio.dll, nvopenal.dll and openal.dll look pretty interesting. Funny enough those files are NOT being installed with the supplied installer / .inf..
Any1 into this ? Are we getting native ASIO and OpenAL support ? More features, more bugs ?
regards,
Andy XS

I've been asking for working OpenAL drivers ever since the 1.13's came out. The DLL's are included, but as you noticed they aren't installed with the install routine. :O
Manual installation doesn't work either. X(
I would like to get them working since I play UT 2003 and OpenAL is the native audio codec in this game. It might also alleviate the BKSODs in some DX games.
-r

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_durin_ wrote:
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If you are going to spend that much, then you'd be better off putting a little more money into an external device with a proper mic pre, and a little less money by not bothering with a USB mic at all, and just getting a 'normal' condensor mic. It's true to say that over the years, the USB mic class of recording device has caused more trouble than any other, regardless.
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...J
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thanks for responding.
i have many times removed and or re-installed all of the midi drivers.
this problem occurs even without any midi or audio drivers in the system. this has been a problem since logic 8 came out for me and others. one user sent some L7 file sto apple and he said that evn apple support has reproduced the problem. that was last year.
i was just hoping that there might be some new info out there.
thanks
Hi,
In this case, I recommend you do a clean install of your operating system. Make sure you back up your important data beforehand.
Afterwards, install Logic 8, and test it with the internal audio only. In other words do NOT install any third party drivers of any kind.
This should work very well. If it does not, then I would suspect your motherboard has issues, and should be replaced by Apple.
Cheers

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