ET: Legacy 2.78 Released With Better OpenAL Sound, Android Support Materializing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ET: Legacy 2.78 Released With Better OpenAL Sound, Android Support Materializing

One of our favorite open-source game projects, ET: Legacy for letting the legendary game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory live on as a community project, is out with a new release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ET-Legacy-2.78

[Azrael5]

Is there the possibility to implement the hardware acceleration through soundcard by drivers and or kernel?

[Calinou]

Is there the possibility to implement the hardware acceleration through soundcard by drivers and or kernel?

Hardware audio acceleration hasn't been relevant for a long time in games. Even 12 year old CPUs can handle sound playback in a game like ET: Legacy just fine.

[evil_core]

Is there the possibility to implement the hardware acceleration through soundcard by drivers and or kernel?

If you got soundcard with hardware mixer (like real SoundBlaster or Audigy, based on emu10kX [there are some cheap cards marketed by Creative as SoundBlasters or Audy with 'SE' or 'Value' , suffix that use different chip, and don't have hardware mixer, wavetable, etc):
You need this

https://github.com/darkbrain-fc/openal-alsa

And additionally this:

https://repo.or.cz/dsound-openal.git

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

Is there the possibility to implement the hardware acceleration through soundcard by drivers and or kernel?

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