WDM Driver for Win2K and Vegas

FxPx wrote on 1/26/2000, 9:19 AM
Greetings,

I have been informed by the maker of my soundcard, a Wave 8
from Gadgetlabs, that -

"We are currently working on writing a driver to work with
Windows 2000.

One problem that you might want to be aware of is that
Microsoft now uses a new driver specification for Windows
2000 called WDM, and at this time none
of the major recording programs (i.e. Cakewalk, Cubase,
Vegas, etc.) can use WDM in 24-bit mode with Windows 2K. All
of these programs will have to be re-written in order to use
our 24-bit WDM driver."

What do the good people of SF have to say about this? Is this
re-write a big deal or a small thing - or is my soundcard
company creating its own problem with its driver?

thanks!

Comments

pwppch wrote on 1/26/2000, 1:36 PM
Fundamentally GL is correct. We will be ready to deal with the 24 bit
issue with WDM and Win98/Win2000 as soon as possible.

However, many of the existing Wave drivers function fine under 2000.
As long as you have wave drivers for your hardware, Sonic Foundry
products bypass all the WDM problems.

Bottom line:
We are working on such problems and will fully adopt WDM in the
future, as well as assuring wave and legacy hardware support.

Peter


paul wrote:
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I have been informed by the maker of my soundcard, a Wave 8
>>from Gadgetlabs, that -
>>
>>"We are currently working on writing a driver to work with
>>Windows 2000.
>>
>>One problem that you might want to be aware of is that
>>Microsoft now uses a new driver specification for Windows
>>2000 called WDM, and at this time none
>>of the major recording programs (i.e. Cakewalk, Cubase,
>>Vegas, etc.) can use WDM in 24-bit mode with Windows 2K. All
>>of these programs will have to be re-written in order to use
>>our 24-bit WDM driver."
>>
>>What do the good people of SF have to say about this? Is this
>>re-write a big deal or a small thing - or is my soundcard
>>company creating its own problem with its driver?
>>
>>thanks!
>>
>>