Concerning the separate OpenAL32.dll thunk patch and OpenAL winmm driver patch

[Chris Robinson]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:58, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Detlef Riekenberg <wine.dev at web.de> writes:
> > I don't know, if wineaudio.drv this is still the way to go, but we have
> > sound crackeling and Buffer-underun Bugs, and adding another copy of
> > the "not very well working" code might be a "no go" for Alexandre.
>
> Exactly, we already have 8 sound drivers, and not a single one
> actually works properly, so I'm pretty reluctant to add yet another
> copy of the same broken code.

I'm curious about how Wine will handle Windows DirectSound drivers. Apparently 
Creative is working on a dsound->openal wrapper driver, and with the openal 
dll, it could take a huge load off of Wine in the dsound department for most 
people if it could work.