[openal] how to uninstall OpenAL Soft on Windows 10
Chris Robinson
chris.kcat at gmail.com
Sun May 29 13:51:15 EDT 2022
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
and on 64-bit systems, also:
C:\windows\syswow64\soft_oal.dll
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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