[colecampbell666]

I spent an hour or so installing the SCP using Turey's Installer and when i open the launcher it says "The application failed to initialize because openal32.dll was not found. Restarting may fix this" I click ok and it says "Could not read flag file." i download openal from a download site and now it says the same thing. can someone help?

[Wanderer]

So have you actually installed OpenAL?

[jr2]

You don't have an nVidia chipset, do you?  If you do, IIRC, the solution is to find & delete nvoal.dll, then re-install OpenAL
EDIT: It might be nv_oal.dll, I'm not sure.

[colecampbell666]

No i just put the openAL.dll from a download site in my freespace 2 folder. It doesnt seem to download it with the installer. when i put openal.dll in the folder it comes up with a new error message. i cant tell you what it says because i am not on my desktop.

[m2258734a]

Yeah, I had the same problem as you. However, instead of finding the openAL.dll online and putting it in my FreeSpace2 folder, I installed OpenAL 1.1 directly from this website:

http://developer.creative.com/articles/article.asp?cat=1&sbcat=31&top=38&aid=46

Just click on the attachment and run the installer. Don't worry about moving files into your FreeSpace2 folder. If this doesn't work for you, and you have a nVidia chipset, follow jr2's instructions.

[colecampbell666]

Thx.
   That worked

[aBearedMan]

Sorry to butt in on this thread but I can't find nvoal.dll or nv_oal.dll on my system.  Is it definitely called that.  I have a 6800gt.

[karajorma]

Those are the dodgy 1.0 versions. You shouldn't have them on your system at all if you've installed OpenAL 1.1 correctly and been lucky.