[openal] openal Digest, Vol 74, Issue 9

Carlos Nazareno object404 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 12:30:59 EDT 2022


Thank you! My system now seems to be using hardware OpenAL.

Cheers!

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> From: Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [openal] how to uninstall OpenAL Soft on Windows 10
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> On 5/28/22 22:54, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
>> Hi. I recently bought  a physical soundblaster X-Fi card that supports
>> EAX and OpenAL in hardware.
>>
>> I wish to safely uninstall OpenAL Soft (version 1.21.1 on Windows 10)
>> now and use the creative hardware OpenAL as I notice reverb effects,
>> etc are not as crispy as when I had my Audigy in games.
>>
>> So far I have not had luck finding instructions via search engine on
>> how to uninstall OpenAL Soft, and some games are still listing OpenAL
>> Soft as my sound provider.
>
> Hi.
>
> It seems you had your question answered on IRC, but to give an answer
> here too, you basically just need to delete the files you copied to the
> system to install it. That would be
>
> C:\windows\system32\soft_oal.dll
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> and on 64-bit systems, also:
>
> C:\windows\syswow64\soft_oal.dll
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> Although as long as the app/game allows selecting which audio device to
> use, you should be able to select the hardware device instead of OpenAL
> Soft with it installed. If some games are still using OpenAL Soft with
> the hardware drivers installed, they may have an OpenAL Soft device
> selected in their audio configuration, and/or they may come with their
> own copy of OpenAL Soft which bypasses the hardware driver.
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