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F.A.Q: Aureal Technology FAQ

All about Aureal's technology including the APIs (A3D 1.0, 2.0, 3.0), sound cards, chips (including the Vortex 2 and Motorola DSP), speakers and anything else you can think of with respect to Aureal's technology. For support questions check out our support FAQ.

4. A3D 3.0: Will A3D 3.0 require a new chipset, or will it be able to be implemented on the current Vortex 2.x boards? - Top

A3D 3.0 is backwards compatible, so features will run on current hardware, with software emulation if hardware is not present. This is also true for AC3 and MP3 playback. Aureal is designing these features with hardware acceleration in mind on future cards.
- Updated: November 29, 1999

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All about Aureal's technology including the APIs (A3D 1.0, 2.0, 3.0), sound cards, chips (including the Vortex 2 and Motorola DSP), speakers and anything else you can think of with respect to Aureal's technology. For support questions check out our support FAQ.

4. A3D 3.0: Will A3D 3.0 require a new chipset, or will it be able to be implemented on the current Vortex 2.x boards? - Top: A3D 3.0 is backwards compatible, so features will run on current hardware, with software emulation if hardware is not present. This is also true for AC3 and MP3 playback. Aureal is designing these features with hardware acceleration in mind on future cards.
- Updated: November 29, 1999