[Openal] Switched from OpenAL to OpenAL Soft.. lost sound effects. 2

[Daniel PEACOCK]

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"Ben Johnson" <bencelot at gmail.com> wrote on 10/15/2008 10:32:46 AM:

> Ok, I've got an update.
>
> It wasn't the shotgun noise.. it was the noise a shotgun pellet
> makes when it hit a wall.
>
> So I deleted the old pelletWall.wav, made a copy of bulletWall.wav,
> renamed it to pelletWall.wav.. and it worked perfectly.
> So it was the old pelletWall.wav.
>
> Now, the only real difference of pelletWall is the volume (pellets
> are smaller/quieter than bullets).. I just went into sound forge and
> reduced it. All of a sudden it freezes up again.
>
> My conclusion.. the openal soft isn't too good at playing really quiet
sounds.
>
> Any thoughts?

Does the problem occur on a different OpenAL device (e.g "Generic Software"
from wrap_oal.dll)?  Are you setting different parameters on this
particular sound effect (e.g. a low-pass filter, or reverb send, etc ...).
What is the format of the wavefile (e.g bits per sample, frequency, etc
...)?

Dan