Since we're also talking about using openAL soft with wxlauncher I have some feedback about that too. For me, in Windows 7, I uninstalled creative's openAL and put the renamed openAL soft dll in my freespace2 folder, openAL is detected by wxlauncher because when I start it I don't get the "unable to start the program because OpenAL32.dll is missing" message and the game runs, but there is a warning at the bottom of the launcher saying "unable to initialize OpenAL". I got some stuttering in-game once and never happened again but that probably has nothing to do with the launcher.