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Title: Coundn't initialize OpenAL: 40961 Post by: Rumblefish on February 15, 2006, 11:51:59 pm I was running UQM 5 version fine but now I can't even get it to start....
the Dialog Box say that---Sound driver intialization failed this may happen when a Soundcard is not present or is unavaiable NOTICE: Try running UQM qith Sound none Option Now...while that is Straightforward I don't know HOW to Change it?? Any simple Ideas???? Title: Re: Coundn't initialize OpenAL: 40961 Post by: Rumblefish on February 15, 2006, 11:57:55 pm WOW.....OK......I did some READING.....yeah....that was EASY to Fix........
thanx for letting me POST Title: Re: Coundn't initialize OpenAL: 40961 Post by: Den on April 15, 2006, 05:48:44 pm Having the same problem... Someone please post on how to fix this... or maybe a link on to how to fix this...
please. :) Title: Re: Coundn't initialize OpenAL: 40961 Post by: Den on April 15, 2006, 06:37:20 pm Nevermind.. got it to work now... changed the setting to --sound=mixsdl because --sound=openal doesn't work.
some questions is nagging me though.. how come the settings changed? Is the setting openal by default? Title: Re: Coundn't initialize OpenAL: 40961 Post by: Michael Martin on April 16, 2006, 07:51:04 pm It's default on Win32, since it grants some nice extra features when it works (positional audio being a main one). It's by default not possible on the other OSes, because OpenAL for Linux is less of a sound library and more of a mechanism for producing interesting crash messages.
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