🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 22 May 2001 16:00:31 -0400, Roj <rojramsey@hotmail.com> wrote:


>>>And what price do you pay elsewhere for using APS drivers?
>>
>>Relevance?
>
>Well, if they aren't the standard production drivers, they likely have
>a price tag elsewhere that renders them a poor solution **as**
>production drivers.  I want to know what other functionality is
>compromised.  If I have to take the sport contacts off my Porsche and
>put on bicycle tires to operate it, that's not a solution - that's a
>travesty.
>
>So I want to know.

Actually don't bother - I did some quick research:

Loss of support for any DirectX version over 6.1

All EAX functions disappear

Many games won't work with these drivers

Inability to use Soundfonts over 32Mb total - the regular drivers
allow you to use half your system memory

Potential system instability especially if the 32Mb Soundfont barrier
is breached

Point blank - they are utterly useless to the target market for the
card and 95% of the folks who would buy it.

So essentially to sum it up:

What we have here is a card that sounds better, is potentially
unstable and loses its primary consumer functions if pushed with these
extreme niche market drivers or sounds relatively unimpressive
compared to the competition and is more stable (tongue squarely in
cheek - there's still the whole bug hog / busmastering issue) if
regular drivers are used.

And people should buy this thing instead of a Turtle Beach, a Hercules
or a Philips...

Have I told you that I have some prime real estate for sale in the
middle of the North Atlantic?

Roj