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G5Unit
Sep 25, 2005, 03:01 PM
How can I get Hardware acceleration in Halo? It's greyed out. I have a PowerMac G5 with an X800XT. Regular biult in sound card.


RobHague
Sep 25, 2005, 03:10 PM
Hardware Accelerated what? graphics? or are you talking about Sound there.
G5Unit
Sep 25, 2005, 03:54 PM
Hardware Accelerated what? graphics? or are you talking about Sound there.
Sound sorry.
dubbz
Sep 25, 2005, 03:58 PM
Sound sorry.

Is there actually any Mac soundcards that support hardware acceleration? There's barely any for the PC.
homerjward
Sep 25, 2005, 03:59 PM
the built-in sound card isn't a hardware soundcard. it's integrated into the logic board and uses the cpu for power. the m-audio revolution, and other pci sound cards should give you hardware acceleration, as would a firewire/usb soundcard.
G5Unit
Sep 25, 2005, 06:59 PM
My friend sound card sucks and it's intergrated into the logic board. PC and he gets hardware acceleration.
dubbz
Sep 25, 2005, 07:17 PM
My friend sound card sucks and it's intergrated into the logic board. PC and he gets hardware acceleration.

Sorry. Was thinking of something else.
applekid
Sep 25, 2005, 09:39 PM
M-Audio's Revolution 5.1 and 7.1 PCI cards are the only PCI audio cards I know of for the Mac.

However, I don't expect either cards would bring up hardware audio acceleration menu because a) sound card support on the Mac is quite lacking (a handful of games support it) and b) if it's just for offloading the sound processes from the CPU to the audio card, I doubt it's going to make that much of a performance boost.
G5Unit
Sep 25, 2005, 10:00 PM
M-Audio's Revolution 5.1 and 7.1 PCI cards are the only PCI audio cards I know of for the Mac.

However, I don't expect either cards would bring up hardware audio acceleration menu because a) sound card support on the Mac is quite lacking (a handful of games support it) and b) if it's just for offloading the sound processes from the CPU to the audio card, I doubt it's going to make that much of a performance boost.
Yeh but you can turn on enviromental sound if you have it enabled and that maks everthing creepy in the game.
snkTab
Sep 25, 2005, 10:59 PM
Yeh but you can turn on enviromental sound if you have it enabled and that maks everthing creepy in the game.

Yeah, but that's one of the things that gets old in 10 minutes. And then you get buyers remorse.