ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT?

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    - XNA GSE Hangs I've checked before, many times, and no problem is ever hogging the resources when this happens. System idle processes takes up 98-99% of my CPU, so it's not any specific program. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Could C# be the future of gaming? Hi Jeff, As some one who is a partner in a company (and lead developer) that produces enterprise high performance security applications, many of them in C#, I think you will be very surprised what you can do with C#. I develop in C++, C++/CLI (.net C++) and C#. C# is my favorite by far. While it certainly takes a lot of care and research to get the "barn burning" speed you can truly get out of C#. Once you know what to avoid and how to write performance critical apps in C#, you will only go back when you have to... Enjoy learning C#, and be sure to grab the "CLR in C#" books by MS press. It will "show you the light" as far as the inner workings of the CLR and how to make your managed code nearly as fast (and in some cases faster) then it's unmanaged counter parts. It certainly helped my apps go from pretty fast to very fast... You already mentioned the "time to market" benefits of the .Net platform so I will simply agree with you and leave it at that. God Bless, Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Displaying a Blender x exported model I create a simple cube in Blender. I assign a uv-mapped texture to it. I create a .x file of the model. I start the XNA tutorial on loading and displaying a model. So far everything goes as expected. The tutorial model displays fine. I copy the model and texture to my game-dir, add the model to the content pipeline. So far, so good. I modify the code to display my model, run the code and there I get confused: The screen is blue. The code is able to find the .x file and to locate the texture. That I have tested. There are no compile errors about the .x file. Furthermore I have the most recent .x file exporter for Blender I could find. I also played with flipping the normals in all ways I could think of. No result what soever. Unfortunately I cannot preview my model with the direct x viewer in the direct x sdk. It crashes on startup. Does somebody know what possibly can go wrong Or can someone tell me how he creates a blender model that is displaying in XNA I've read some posts about issues with Blender. These didn't help me. Thank you. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - No text input in WinForm controls You could use the Form.Show(IWin32Window) override. Pass in a reference to the game form so that your new form is owned by the game form. This wont dock the forms but will enable your form to be minimized/restored and closed with the game form. Personally I quite liked having a separate form, it was more flexible, especially when using two monitors. Also it means that I could make editor components that can be easily added to other games with minimal interference. If you wanted to you could probably add some code to stick your form to the side of the game form and make it move/resize with it. You'd just have to monitor those events in the game form. Cheers, Leaf. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Why XNA requires C# Express, not the Studio version? However, the download page for C# Express states the following. "Before installing, you must uninstall any previous Beta, CTP or Tech Preview versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0." So, you're okay with a full version of them, but not with Beta, CTP or Tech Preview versions Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Infinite projection matrix I've gotten the matrix in my problem now but it gives me a funny view distortion as seen in image 1. I'm getting some errors at the farplane as seen in image 2. Any clue why this might be the case Image 1: http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4307/distortedrk8.jpg Image 2: http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4906/errornu8.jpg Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - LoadGraphicsContent and UnloadGraphicsContent Heja out there... I'm searching around a wile now but haven't found an definitive answer on my latest xna question so i hope the good old msdn forums community could help ... When and how will be LoadGraphicsContent and UnloadGraphicsContent called I found out that LoadGraphicsContent is called by DrawableGameComponent.Initialize, .DeviceCreated and .DeviceReset and UnloadGraphicsContent by DrawableGameComponent.DeviceDisposing and .DeviceResetting. But i want know when the parameter (un)loadAllContent is set to true or to false. I would argue that Initialize and DeviceCreated will call LoadGraphicsContent(TRUE) and DeviceReset just LoadGraphicsContent(FALSE). DeviceResetting will call UnloadGraphicsContent(FALSE) and DeviceDisposing UnloadGraphicsContent(TRUE). thx, and greethings from Austria... Markus Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Cursor disappears over window Strange it's set up to use the xbox because I'm using the windows version of Space Wars. There is also an XBox version. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - IDE problem Thanks so much. Now that i know there is no problem, i can move forward. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Thanx Well I was going through the first XNA tutorial and then got to the part right before you make the model rotate and I compiled the program and got a nasty little surprise! there was this error in the Could not find a Direct3D device that has a Direct3D9-level driver and supports pixel shader 1.1 or greater. I'm not sure what it is and how to fix it... so yeah and yes I tried searching for the problem but I couldn't find anything about it. And I wasn't sure how to look up my Graphics card to see if it's compatible but yeah my computer is pretty new! So it should be good right With many plz and thank-you's, -Ri_Kamen Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Slowing down the game Ah found it : this.TargetElapsedTime = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(25); Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Xbox Live Arcade Title looking for Engine/Coder.. Just wondering why madmojogaming.com redirects to Bungie's website Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Warm Up Contest Is Up Using the tools above, build your game for Windows or Xbox 360* Windows too. This is going to be interesting... Somehow I thought this is going to be CC exclusive... Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - newbie problem with CreateOrthographicOffCenter I dont think I am quite understanding this, I created the following test to try and get a quad to render in screen space Quad quad = new Quad ( new Vector3 (0, 0, 0), new Vector3 (0, 10, 0), new Vector3 (10, 10, 0), new Vector3 (10, 0, 0)); Matrix matView = Matrix .CreateLookAt( new Vector3 (0, 0, 1), Vector3 .Zero, Vector3 .Up); Matrix matProj = Matrix .CreateOrthographicOffCenter(0, ScreenWidth, 0, ScreenHeight, 0.0f, 1.0f); The quad renders in the bottom left corner of the screen, I want it to render in the top left of the screen, I though maybe flipping the Up Vector so its 0,-1,0 would solve the problem and allow me to draw shapes with the origin being the top left of the screen however no matter what I try I cant get it to work. I think the problem is due to my understanding of CreateOrthographicOffCenter, can somebody explain in newbie terms how I can go about acheiving this. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - LoadGraphicsContent - Is it right to load ALL graphics content at the start Bill Reiss wrote: Can you have two ContentManagers You sure can. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Is it realistic to create one's own engine? I would ask yourself this question: do I want to write games, or do I want to write a game engine Realistically, you will be doing one or the other, but not both (unless the engine complexity is trivial, or 2D) - you simply won't have enough time. There is actually a gulf between the two things, and what motivates people to do one or the other (deep down are you a techie, or a creative person Do you want to create cool effects, or a cool game ). 3D games engines are not easy things to create - although they look that way until you are 9 (full time!) months into developing one, but don't let that stop you having a go and enjoying the journey! Andy. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Why XNA requires C# Express, not the Studio version? However, the download page for C# Express states the following. "Before installing, you must uninstall any previous Beta, CTP or Tech Preview versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0." So, you're okay with a full version of them, but not with Beta, CTP or Tech Preview versions Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Standalone graphics compiling app? Hi, Is there an application that will allow the artist to convert graphics files to xna format, without the need for GSE Or even with GSE installed, just not having to use the GSE IDE With our previous developments in Java, it was really useful for him to be able to amend graphics then simply replace them in the latest Jar I sent him. At present I have to build the whole thing myself, then upload 17MB each time, which isn't ideal! Thanks, Mark Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Directx SDK (december 2006) viewer crashes on startup So, the problem seems to be that dll (d3d9x_32.dll) mentioned there then Have you managed to fix it Tried a search here, couldn't find it in my system either. Made half a dozen of the 're-download / uninstall / re-install' process but still same problem... Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Render target save'n'restore The codepaths are the same. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Whats the deal with DirectX being owned by XNA? c1t1z3n0 wrote: it would seem the XNA team is starting to name all its additions to DirectX as seperate API's in order to reorganize and perhaps reinvent/rename/reconstruct DirectX into its own X*** architecture. Well a lot of the new additions (XInput and XACT) have XBox heritage where those naming conventions are more common (not being a XBox developer I don't know for sure). Whilst XInput/DirectInput and XACT/DirectSound have obvious relations they are seperate technologies such that there isn't a requirement to follow the naming convention of their relatives. But I can see how it'd be easier if they were the same c1t1z3n0 wrote: I'd rather the XNA team either swallow their pride and admit they are just an add-on to DirectX Managed Be careful with using the XNA name here - XNA Framework is analagous to the successor of MDX, but XNA as a whole includes other technologies (currently XNABuild). Also, there have been mentions of an MD3D10 in the future - which would suggest that XNA Framework isn't quite a replacement for MDX... c1t1z3n0 wrote: old Feb 2005 DX sdks just to install DirectShow headers that were already in DirectX and got "put back" into the Platform SDK. The PSDK is a prerequisite to the DXSDK, so this sounds a bit flawed to me. Use whichever DXSDK you want and ensure you have a reasonably up-to-date PSDK to give you the DShow headers Whatever happens with the naming and technology offerings I'm sure it'll be announced on the developer centre and discussed here - I doubt you'll miss it! hth Jack Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to save several x files to one x file hello everyone, I'm a newbie here. I want to open several X files with DirectX 9.0(C#), and save them to one X file. I loaded X with Mesh mesh1 = Mesh.FromFile(strXPath1, MeshFlags.Managed, meshDevice, out mtrl); Mesh mesh2 = Mesh.FromFile(strXPath2, MeshFlags.Managed, meshDevice, out mtrl); �� and wanted to save with following : Mesh meshSave = new Mesh(iAdjNum,iVerticNum,MeshFlags.Managed, CustomVertex.PositionNormal.Format, frm.device); Mesh meshsave = Mesh.Save(); but I failed , Could someone give some tips. Thanks!!!! Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - shader 1.1 or higher? I believe that's similar to a GeForce 4 MX, which is similar to a GeForce 2, which doesn't have shader support. You probably need to upgrade. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 360 Boat game with source This game rules! I think the water effect takes it to that next level though, nice job. The only thing that pissed me off was some of the collission detection. Sometimes if you nick a wall, instead of bouncing off and still move forwards, it would bounce you totally backwards. I'd like to see some more stuff from you. Are you entering the dream build play contest Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 3d multiple model help I belive you have to do a world transformation. effect.World = transforms[mesh.ParentBone.Index] * Matrix.CreateRotationY(objectRotation) * Matrix.CreateTranslation(objectPosition); Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA for Kids I agree with amgad2 - riemer's site has tonnes of info. It's a great site for learning 3d xna - even if it is a little complex Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Shader tutorials? I looked through the HLSL stuff in the GSE docs, but I would like a more in-depth understanding of not just HLSL, but shaders in general. Anybody know of any good websites All the ones found through google had more code then actual explanations of the basics behind shaders. Thanks in advance, Charlie Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - importing nurbs model? Does the FBX content importer support nurbs models I exported a simple sphere in Maya 8 as sphere.fbx, but the content importer throws an exception when it tries to build the asset: I saw a reference to a function trying to import animations, however the object isn't animated at all... I can provide the asset somewhere if needed. Building Media\sphere.fbx -> bin\x86\Debug\Media\nurb_sphere.xnb Media\sphere.fbx : error : Building content threw ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Media\sphere.fbx : error : Parameter name: key Media\sphere.fbx : error : at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentNullException(ExceptionArgument argument) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.FindEntry(TKey key) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.AnimationConverter.AddAnimationToNodesRecursive(NodeContent node) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.AnimationConverter.AddAnimationInformationToScene(NodeContent sceneRoot) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.FbxImporter.Import(String filename, ContentImporterContext context) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.ContentImporter`1.Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.IContentImporter.Import(String filename, ContentImporterContext context) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.ImportAssetDirectly(BuildItem item, String importerName) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.ImportAsset(BuildItem item) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAssetWorker(BuildItem item) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAsset(BuildItem item) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAndLoadAsset(BuildItem item, BuildItem requestingItem) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.ImportAssetViaCache(BuildItem item, String importerName) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.ImportAsset(BuildItem item) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAssetWorker(BuildItem item) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAsset(BuildItem item) Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.RunTheBuild() Media\sphere.fbx : error : at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Tasks.BuildContent.RemoteProxy.RunTheBuild(BuildCoordinatorSettings settings, ITaskItem[] sourceAssets, TaskLoggingHelper msbuildLog, String[]& outputContent, String[]& rebuiltContent, String[]& intermediates) Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Keyboard KeyPressed state? I'm having some trouble trying to perform an action based on a KeyPressed state rather than iskeydown or up. I managed to add a bool variable(for jumping my character up) to lock the keystate until it has hit the floor again but I hoped I could do one action only(i.e. jump once) while holding the keyboard button. I dont have a XBOX360 controller to test but I believe there's a KeyPressed state that should work. Has anyone tried to mimic that onto a keyboard Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Some helpful advice for the 360 dev. I mentioned in a previous thread, that developers need to be careful when creating their games as the 360 has only 512mb of ram available. I noticed recently that as more people start to use the XNA launcher, they are running into this memory wall. So here are my top tips to help avoid the wall. 1. Be aware of your asset sizes. Texture and sound files are your culprits here! Use the content managers unload function to purge memory at the end of levels, between menu states and so on and so forth. Don't leave un-used textures or sounds in memory. This is the reason why all reatail games load data during level changes and even for trivial things like going from the main menu to the options menu etc. etc. I have a memory chart and usually fill this in for each feature. All the chart consists of is some graph paper and a block of 512 squares. The first few lines are always filled. This is because you need to take into account the XNA launcher code. I then use coloured pencils to block out more of the chart as I do a feature. It soon shows you when you are getting dangerously close to running out of memory! This is also what I tend to do when doing professional console stuff for companies (I contract these days). They all seem amazed that tracking memory usage doesn't have to involve screens of numbers just some paper with squares and a pencil or two. 2. Use texture compression where possible. The 360 supports a number of texture compression standards and they make little difference except to give you more space for better effects, more textures etc. etc. Use vertex buffers for any mesh work as XNA can handle these efficiently but, currently has a much smaller buffer available for using draw primitive calls directly. They seem to stack, which fills the graphics buffers! This may or may not be a bug (depending on the internal layout of the 360's graphics card and the cards drivers.) though I suspect it's by design based on the most efficient way to feed the card data. 3. Remember that you have a hard drive so you can use up to 2gb of space for your creation. Then like a concerned parent, XNA will cut off your allowance. This means that you can do something akin to Motorstorm with XNA (I kid you not but er this does depend on your programming and shader creation skills obviously...). Incidentally I threw in that last comment because I would love to see someone do just that in XNA....not to rub any particular consoles face in it you understand ;-) Just remember to load and unload assets as you need them. I haven't tried streaming data from the drive yet but, I suspect this will allow for some very large worlds, race tracks, maps etc. etc. Oh last but not least. HAVE FUN! Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - GSE RTM on Vista RTM (unsupported) Well, the good news is that the Media Center Extension works -- that's the best "first" thing to test, since it verifies that your Xbox and PC are talking to each other. You might want to also try regenerating a key on the 360, then create a new connection from the PC. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Graph shader? Sorry for the misunderstanding. I've done some tests and I'm afraid I can not confirm what you're saying: I've got no problem creating a texture of 1 pixel height. Have you read something about it or only done some experiments Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT ETA on fixing the timing marker issue w/ XACT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

Brian Konception

Wondering if you guys know when approximately the XACT issue with the timing markers will be fixed. I'm currently working on a project that was going to utilize the marker functionality to cue in game sounds at the same BPM as the BG music.

Aloha,

Brian

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