Did you come into IRC and find that the solution was to disable OpenAL?
- Original Message -
From: "Richard L Zarth III"
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 installe
Yep. The problem has been fixed. Thanks a bunch!
Richard L Zarth III
On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Prosnik wrote:
> Did you come into IRC and find that the solution was to disable OpenAL?
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Richard L Zarth III"
> To: ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org
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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 Zart
What is the technical reason for this problem?
On Jan 6, 2013 3:07 PM, "Richard L Zarth III"
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
>From what I understand, the OpenAL driver wasn't giving enough buffers for
the various sounds. There was probably a different way to fix the problem,
but since disabling OpenAL in ioquake3 doesn't affect the sound quality it
was an easier fix. Without OpenAL enabled, ioquake3 cannot be ran in
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