Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Sep 2005 20:33 UTC
In previous Windows releases, the entire audio stack ran in Kernel space. Vista will put an end to this. "The first (and biggest) change we made was to move the entire audio stack out of the kernel and into user mode. Pre-Vista, the audio stack lived in a bunch of different kernel mode device drivers, including sysaudio.sys, kmixer.sys, wdmaud.sys, redbook.sys, etc. In Vista and beyond, the only kernel mode drivers for audio are the actual audio drivers (and portcls.sys, the high level audio port driver)."
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2005-07-06
I suppose it won't matter much if you are running Vista on a 2% utilized quad-core 4GHz P5, but as soon as your CPU utilization hits 100%, your audio quality will go completely down the drain.
Ever heard of task priorities?