Hardware acceleration enables you to shift the audio tasks from the CPU to the sound card so that the CPU isn't slowed down by audio requests and so that games and other audio-intensive applications ...

Just so everyone know what I'm asking about<BR><BR>Control Panel --> Sound & Audio --> Audio Tab --> Advanced button --> Performance Tab --> Hardware acceleration ...

Hardware acceleration uses specialized hardware components of your computer to perform certain tasks more efficiently than the system’s main processor (CPU) alone could. This is particularly useful ...

I remember in 2003, or so, when EAX was touted to reduce the load on the CPU in demanding gaming. The sound cards would have a DSP to take care of all that sound stuff. The Xbox and Soundstorm ...