Under most circumstances you can just use the OpenAL hardware driver. But as I said, you'll likely have channel problems like I did if your end user has crappy on-board sound hardware.
The software mixer is fine, but it does come with a slight performance overhead which is why I use this driver as default on Vista only. I figure any PC that can run Vista will be fast enough to suffer the [small] performance loss.
The software mixer is fine, but it does come with a slight performance overhead which is why I use this driver as default on Vista only. I figure any PC that can run Vista will be fast enough to suffer the [small] performance loss.