Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
The lack of an accelerated dsound interface isn't that big, just means
I wish accelerated direct sound had been a big issue. Both OSS and alsa theoretically could support it under very limited circumstances but there was no guarantee that it could be supported under all circumstances.
With full direct sound hardware acceleration in the low level driver, all software mixing would be bypassed in the current direct sound implementation. Direct sound would just forward calls from the application to the driver. That's where the direct in direct sound originally came from in the old days.