[Openal] Realtek HD playing sounds intermittently

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Tim,

Thursday, May 22, 2008, 5:05:38 PM, you wrote:

> I have a laptop running WinXP with a Realtek HD 883 chip installed. In
> our app we were seeing some sounds not playing at all, and of those that
> played, they would sometimes stop playing before reaching the end of the
> sound.  This behavior seems random as to which sounds will play and
> which won't.

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> This is all using the generic hardware driver, generic software works
> fine.

The fault is in Realtek's DSound driver, not OpenAL.

> I've got another laptop, same hardware, but running Vista and that works
> fine.

Maybe this has a newer driver than the XP machine ?

> Is there anything I can do to bring this hardware into compliance on XP
> or does it just not support OpenAL fully?

Look for an updated driver. If there isn't one, then complain to
Realtek.

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 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at blueyonder.co.uk