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Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Agrippa - 09-12-2010

Downloaded and installed OpenAl,updated Nvidia drivers,tried to start it up from various launchers.Nothing helped.

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Setting video mode: 1024 x 768 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2
Version: 3.3.0
Max texture image units: 32
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 8
Max color render targets: 8
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 1
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
Adding engine post effects
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
FATAL ERROR: No sound devices available! Check your OpenAL installation


Don't know if that helps.What do i do?

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Zanderat - 09-12-2010

System specs?

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Agrippa - 09-13-2010

9800 GT
2 gb RAM
Intel Core Duo E7300 @2,66 GHZ
Realtek HD soundcard..i think.Dunno much about soundcards.

Anyhting else needed?

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Zanderat - 09-13-2010

(09-13-2010, 01:02 AM)Agrippa Wrote: 9800 GT
2 gb RAM
Intel Core Duo E7300 @2,66 GHZ
Realtek HD soundcard..i think.Dunno much about soundcards.

Anyhting else needed?
Operating system.

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - rini - 09-13-2010

Is OpenAL properly installed? Check capsviewer:
http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/ALCapsViewer.zip

Other games (that uses OpenAL) run fine?

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Agrippa - 09-13-2010

Windows Xp.Prey,Unreal tournament 3 and Doom 3 work just fine.Gonna check capsviewer.Thanks for the answer guys.

EDIT:Capsviewers says this:

Filename: File path: Version Number:

OpenAL32.dll C/Windows/system32 6.14.357.24
wrap_oal.dll C/Windows/system32 2.2.0.5

What does it mean? Anything else that you need?

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Thomas - 09-13-2010

Make sure that you do not have a music app or similar running in the background. It is known that some apps steal a sound card so make sure to turn everything off before starting the game.

Also see A.3:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Agrippa - 09-13-2010

http://i52.tinypic.com/9unpk3.jpg

That's all i have running in the background,the only audio-related thing is the Realtek HD thingie,wich u can't even close without killing the process.Wich i did,and stil didn't work.So...

Any other thoughts? I'd like to play the game at some point :/

Thanks for the answers anyway...

PS:Starting from the other launcher proposed in that link doesn't work either.

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - rini - 09-13-2010

(09-13-2010, 03:05 AM)Agrippa Wrote: EDIT:Capsviewers says this:

Filename: File path: Version Number:

OpenAL32.dll C/Windows/system32 6.14.357.24
wrap_oal.dll C/Windows/system32 2.2.0.5

What does it mean? Anything else that you need?
Send full report from capsviewer (menu/file/save info).

(09-13-2010, 01:02 AM)Agrippa Wrote: Realtek HD soundcard
Install newest sound drivers from Realtek's homepage.

RE: Fatal error: No sound device avilable.Check OpenAl instalation. - Luis - 09-13-2010

Check the Hardware Acceleration slider in Control Panel->Sounds and Audio Devices->(Speaker Settings)Advanced...->Performance tab and make sure it is set to "Full".