X-Fi modes have undocumented features?
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:11 pm
Before today, I was always using "Entertainment" for everything, but the Unigine benchmark refused to run because of a missing OpenAL extension AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE.
The fix I found is to switch to "Game" mode, and it really works. But I never even had an idea that those modes go as far as to change audio capabilities. Kinda like in video card world that would be "Game" mode works in DX11 and "Entertainment" in DX9 or something.
Does anyone know more technical details on what else those modes change? There must be a tradeoff if "Entertainment" drops as much as AL extensions.
The fix I found is to switch to "Game" mode, and it really works. But I never even had an idea that those modes go as far as to change audio capabilities. Kinda like in video card world that would be "Game" mode works in DX11 and "Entertainment" in DX9 or something.
Does anyone know more technical details on what else those modes change? There must be a tradeoff if "Entertainment" drops as much as AL extensions.