What is the technical reason for this problem?
On Jan 6, 2013 3:07 PM, "Richard L Zarth III" <richardzarth...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> For future reference, I was able to use "s_useOpenAL 0" and restart the
> sound with "snd_restart". At first it only slightly fixed the problem; I
> had to do the same in Quake III Arena and Team Arena for the problem to
> fully go away. The setting also has to be done with every mod.
>
> Richard L Zarth III
>
> On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Prosnik <m...@rq3.com> wrote:
>
> > Did you come into IRC and find that the solution was to disable OpenAL?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard L Zarth III" <richardzarth...@gmail.com>
> > To: ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org
> > Sent: Saturday, 5 January, 2013 10:03:33 PM
> > Subject: [ioquake3] Sound Problem in Quake III Team Arena (OS X)
> >
> >
> >
> > I have recently installed ioquake3 on my MacBookPro9,2 (13-inch,
> Mid-1012) laptop running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion using the 1.36 binary on
> the ioquake3 website.  I don't seem to have any problems with Quake III
> Arena, but with Quake III Team Arena I am having a lot of sound issues.
>  Many sounds are replaced with the "default" sound (which seems to be
> sound/feedback/hit.wav, the ping sound when you hit a target).  When
> looking in the console after loading a map, I see many strings that look
> like the following:
> >
> >
> > WARNING: Using default sound for sound/...
> > ERROR: Can't create a sound buffer for sound/...
> > Invalid value
> >
> >
> > The sounds seem to be random.  Sometimes a certain sound won't work
> (such as the chain gun shooting), but on another load it will.  Most of the
> time (but not all of the time) the sounds are Team Arena sounds.  This
> problem is of course very frustrating.  I have tried reinstalling ioquake3
> with no luck, and I've tried reimporting the pak0.pk3 files for both Q3A
> and Q3TA with no luck.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!  If any more
> info is needed on my part please let me know.
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Richard L Zarth III
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