[jg18]

It looks like the Creative OpenAL download site is down, possibly permanently, since it doesn't even come up in a Google search. I can't look into this more at the moment, so what other options exist?

Thanks.

[headdie]

if anyone has a copy of the download it could always be hosted on FSmods at least for now

[coffeesoft]

Here you can download, the OpeanAL installer 32-64 Bits and the " openal-soft-1.15.1-bin" as well.

Link

http://www.mediafire.com/?o62dmdbabg8wl8o

Mirror

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksw1p3prblp8b8/OpenAL.rar

[Fury]

Interesting. Well, one more reason to support OpenAL Soft instead.
http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

It's better than Creative's outdated POS too.

[jr2]

OpenAL Soft is a drop-in replacement for Creative OAL, or does FSO need to be made compatible with it?

[niffiwan]

Drop in replacement, FSO on Linux & OSX already use it exclusively

Now, if we can only manage to statically link in OpenAL on Windows as well..... 

[jg18]

Actually, OS X uses Apple's OpenAL library, which ships with OS X. Dunno if it's completely theirs or based on OpenAL Soft or something else, though.

[niffiwan]

   sorry about the misinformation    (I *am* sure about Linux though, it's OpenAL Soft on every distro I've looked at)

[Kopachris]

Here you can download, the OpeanAL installer 32-64 Bits and the " openal-soft-1.15.1-bin" as well.

Link

http://www.mediafire.com/?o62dmdbabg8wl8o

Mirror

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ksw1p3prblp8b8/OpenAL.rar

Additional mirror
ftp://kopachr.is/OpenAL
(Folder contains a .zip for the regular installer and a .zip for openal-soft)

[Fury]

OpenAL Soft is a drop-in replacement for Creative OAL, or does FSO need to be made compatible with it?

Drop-in replacement.

http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
--> openal-soft-1.15.1-bin.zip
From the zip, extract Win32\soft_oal.dll to your FS2 directory and rename it to OpenAL32.dll.

To my surprise it even fixed blue-screening problem on one guy's X-Fi card.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=84849.0

Seriously, I don't know why SCP still insists on recommending Creative's OpenAL when OpenAL Soft could even be statically linked to the FSO executables. And if there is really need to, add a flag to disable the built-in OpenAL Soft to use external dll from Creative's or whatever.

[wolfen]

Thank you for linking to Open Al I lost everything when I reloaded my computer and now I have it back

[Kopachris]

Additional mirror
ftp://kopachr.is/OpenAL
(Folder contains a .zip for the regular installer and a .zip for openal-soft)

My mirror has been down for a while since I never bothered to reconfigure FTP after moving to a new server...  Is fixed now.

[est1895]

I have a question.

My brother's OpenAL dates back to 2008.  He now has a Win 7 64bit system as well.   Should he download a newer version?  Also, which file do I download from Kopaschris's mirror?