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Title: Sound problems
Post by: rlashley on May 05, 2008, 02:05:40 pm

Hey all, Im having sound issues that I think are related to openal, but Ive tried what people on here have and I still cant get sound.  Ive installed the newest version of openal but when I start the launcher it still says I don't have it.  Ive gone into my system32 folder and deleted nvopenal.dll and that still didnt help.  Ive been running generic sound under the sound settings.

Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: Wanderer on May 05, 2008, 02:08:39 pm

Just to make sure... you have done what is described here?

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48160.0.html

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: rlashley on May 05, 2008, 02:18:50 pm

Yeah, tried everything on that page but still no sound

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: Jeff Vader on May 05, 2008, 02:19:45 pm

Are drivers up to date?

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: rlashley on May 05, 2008, 02:30:17 pm

As far as I know, they are all up to date.

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: Jeff Vader on May 05, 2008, 02:32:24 pm

Hmm. Computer specs? And how did you install FSO?

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: rlashley on May 05, 2008, 02:38:26 pm

Athlon 64 3200, 2 gigs of ram, Nvidia 7600gt ko
Originally I installed it on another computer and then dragged it over to this one.  Would that be whats causing the sound issue?  The rest of the game runs just fine

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: Jeff Vader on May 05, 2008, 02:41:24 pm

It shouldn't cause that. But how did you install it on the other computer, then?

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: rlashley on May 05, 2008, 02:47:20 pm

I don't exactly remember step for step, it was a couple weeks ago, I just remember using a program that downloaded it for me automatically and followed whatever instructions were there

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: Jeff Vader on May 05, 2008, 05:29:21 pm

Hmm. Sounds like Turey's Installer. Good. Well then, how did you install OpenAL? I did a quick search on the forums and many people have had bad results, when they've simply found some dll file from the Internets that they've thrown into \system32\. As a last thing that comes to my mind, I suggest that you once again remove all the files mentioned in that solution thread from \system32\ and then run this OpenAL installer (http://developer.creative.com/articles/article.asp?cat=1&sbcat=31&top=38&aid=46&file=oalinst.exe). (If the link fails, there is another one in my signature).

Title: Re: Sound problems
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on May 05, 2008, 11:15:28 pm

I've been out in the yard drinking all day so if this has already been said or it's just way off just ignore me. 

I think there have been other instances where older OpenAL drivers were installed into the wrong directory and still being picked up by the OS.  There should be some threads about it on here if that is a possibility.