Re: Openal config on Windows?

On Friday, September 02, 2011 11:23:18 AM SaiD91 wrote:
> Hello,
> I still have some very bad problems with 3D Sound on Windows 7.
> I guess the system ignore the alsoft.ini-Data.
> Actually i try to use alcOpenDevice("DirectSound3D");, instead of
> NULL(generic Hardware deive).

"DirectSound3D" is provided by Creative's wrapper driver, which doesn't look 
at alsoft.ini. If you're not using the router, you can just open the default 
(NULL) device, otherwise you'll need to use a tool to enumerate the OpenAL 
devices, find the ones provided by OpenAL Soft, and configure the app to use 
that. Soon there'll hopefully be a way to request an OpenAL Soft device by the 
name "OpenAL Soft", but currently the router won't pass that to the DLL.

It should be noted that hard-coding any device name directly into the app is 
generally a bad idea, as they're implementation defined and subject to change 
based on available hardware, OS version, driver version, etc. Try to use a 
user-configuration option to specify a non-default device, if at all possible.
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