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EAX sound effects and hardware acceleration of old games under Windows Vista and Windows 7

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Mar 15, 202614555 views
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I've read that Windows Vista and 7 stopped supporting hardware acceleration (which included support for EAX sound effects) of DirectSound/DirectX Audio. Many of the old games (most of them released in the 90's-early 2000's) that I used to play in Windows XP support hardware accelerated EAX 1 and/or…

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Fix for: EAX sound effects and hardware acceleration of old games under Windows Vista and Windows 7

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you could always get an Audigy sound card to use Alchemy with. the earlier series of Audigys can probably be had fairly cheaply now. for example, on Amazon you can get a used Audigy 2 for $20. eBay would probably have similar deals.

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