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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Tomio.

Hello,

please be not angry with me to post a question which deals only in a very very far sense and a lot of good will with PB (see last line).
But this forum is my last hope.

My OS is WinXP with a SiS 7012 soundcard onboard. Sound works fine. No trouble. Latest driver installed. WinXP latest update installed.

I have Propellehead's Reason 2.0 to compose music.

Reason asks for the sound output driver and offers: "MME SiS 7012" and "DX SiS 7012".
But only the MME version is accepted.

That's bad because MME has long latency whereas DX's is short.
Reason itself recommends to use DX if possible.

The only advice from Propellerhead's service I could get was: This is a driver issue. Install latest driver. (But I did already)

SiS is a manufacturer in Korea. They didn't answer to my mail.

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Now the question to THIS forum:
Is there a way to find out whether my soundcard/driver uses DirectX ?
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Sorry again for (almost) misusing the forum! And thank you for any help,
Tomio

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by traumatic.

did you try 'dxdiag' in your windows/system32 directory? what does it say?

...but i think if reason doesn't allow you to chose a low-latency driver, your card won't support it.
it's not a real audio-card anyway



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Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> Is there a way to find out whether my soundcard/driver uses DirectX ?
> Sorry again for (almost) misusing the forum!

You didn't misuse the forum, as you are a regular poster here and your
post wasn't a blatant attempt to hide spamming of an URL. Relax.

As for your question, you must use "DXDiag" as Traumatic said. Click
your Start button, select Run, type "dxdiag" (no quotes) and press the
Enter key. Wait, then click the "Sound" tab and read the info. There
may also be a "Test DirectSound" button... click it.

PB - Registered PureBasic Coder

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Tomio.

Hello Traumatic and PB,

thank you for your answer.

I didn't know dxdiag. But now I'm glad to know. A very informative tool. And it told me that the SiS soundcard does not support real hardware acceleration. This morning I replaced the card and my Reason sound tool is satisfied.

Greetings../Tomio