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The Standard setting enables hardware acceleration of DirectSound secondary buffers but disables vendor-specific extensions such as EAX (Creative Technologies' environmental audio extensions) that are exposed as property sets through the IKsPropertySet interface (see Exposing Custom Audio Property Sets). In Windows Server 2003, Basic is the default setting. With an adapter such as the OPL, which has no acceleration of DirectSound secondary buffers, this setting has the same effect as the Standard setting. You can use this setting during testing to emulate a sound card that has no DirectSound acceleration. Under this setting, all DirectSound applications run as though no hardware acceleration is available, regardless of the capabilities of the sound card that is being used. The Basic setting disables hardware acceleration of DirectSound secondary buffers. The result is typically a large increase in latency. All mixing is done by DirectSound in user mode, and the resulting audio data is played back through the waveOut API.

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In this mode, DirectSound applications run as though no DirectSound driver is present. The Emulation setting above forces DirectSound into emulation mode. Acceleration LevelДisables hardware acceleration of DirectSound secondary buffers.Д®nables hardware acceleration of DirectSound secondary buffers but disables vendor-specific property-set extensions.Д®nables hardware acceleration of DirectSound secondary buffers and enables vendor-specific property-set extensions. The following table shows the meaning of these settings.

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The hardware-acceleration slider has four settings that range from None (level 0) on the left to Full (level three) on the right. On the Audio tab, select a device from the Sound Playback list.ДЄt this point, you should see two sliders that are labeled Hardware acceleration and Sample rate conversion quality. In Control Panel, double-click the Sounds and Audio Devices icon (or just run mmsys.cpl).

To locate the DirectSound hardware-acceleration and SRC sliders in Windows, for example, follow these steps: For more information about the Windows multimedia waveOut API, see the Microsoft Windows SDK documentation. Also, in all current versions of Windows, waveOut applications are unable to use hardware-accelerated pins on audio devices and are unaffected by the setting of the DirectSound hardware-acceleration slider. Note that the waveOut API always uses the best SRC quality regardless of the setting of the DirectSound SRC slider. These settings affect only DirectSound applications.

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This behavior improves stability and prevents software from placing the audio system in a state from which it cannot be removed without rebooting. No API is available for changing the hardware-acceleration or SRC setting from an application program. The hardware-acceleration and SRC settings can be changed only by direct end-user action. Changes made to the hardware-acceleration and SRC sliders are persistent across boot-ups. The sliders control the level of hardware acceleration and quality of sample-rate conversion (SRC) that are made available to DirectSound applications. Windows provides global slider controls for altering DirectSound performance on a system-wide basis.