[Openal] Max number of sources (and legit id values) for
each OpenAL implementation
Daniel PEACOCK
dpeacock at creativelabs.com
Thu Jul 23 01:37:47 PDT 2009
> > Creative Labs:
> > I recall seeing this in an old mailing list thread.
> > Generic Software: 256
> > Generic Hardware: 16-64
>
> Note that the Generic Hardware device depends on the hardware. It uses
> DirectSound3D, so if that reports >64 (or even >256) voices, that's how
many
> you can get.
The Generic Hardware implementation caps the voices count to 64, and
imposes a required lower limit of 16, so the number of sources you can
generate will always be in the range 16-64.
Dan
Creative Labs, UK
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