DirectSound - Setting the cooperative level globally

Hi,

Some applications (mainly games - no surprise) systematically set the cooperative level to DSSCL_EXCLUSIVE and don't make this behavior an option. This has the very annoying effect of making all other applications unaudible. Very often, the user doesn't want this. I can't understand why a developer would have such an unpolite behavior.

Is there any way to set the cooperative level globally so that no application could get exclusive access to the audio device?

Thanks in advance.

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Patrick Philippot
MainSoft Consulting Services
www.mainsoft.fr / www.pctimewatch.com


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