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Цитировать"Upgrading" OpenAL to OpenAL Soft

    First, this post has nothing to do with DSOAL or HRTF. I am not interested in this right now.
This is about installing the official OpenAL & then adding the fork OpenAL Soft on top of it in Thief1 & 2 game folders.
I do not wish at this time to update the "router" from the official OpenAL to OpenAL Soft right now (C\Windows\System32\OpenAL32.dll).

    From all the reading I have done this is the procedure (This is Windows 11):

    1) Install the official OpenAL from https://www.openal.org/
    2) Download OpenAL Soft current version is 1.25.2
    3) From OpenAL Soft 1.25.2 copy \bin\Win32\soft_oal.dll.
    4) Rename soft_oal.dll to OpenAL32.dll
    5) Place the renamed file into the Thief main game directory
    6) In game Options > Audio > set Hardware Acceleration to OpenAL & channels to 48.

    Am I missing anything? Is there anything to be edited in the cam files, etc?


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; when using the OpenAL sound driver the default AL device may sometimes cause problems, in particular for
; on-board sound controllers. In those instances you can try an alternative AL device. Which other AL devices
; are available can be seen in the log file (when AL is enabled). It seems that usually the "Generic Software"
; device is available, which is a good one to try as an alternative.
snd_oal_device Generic Software

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; when using the OpenAL sound driver the default AL device may sometimes cause problems, in particular for
; on-board sound controllers. In those instances you can try an alternative AL device. Which other AL devices
; are available can be seen in the log file (when AL is enabled). It seems that usually the "Generic Software"
; device is available, which is a good one to try as an alternative.
snd_oal_device OpenAL Soft
in cam_ext.cfg

And use OpenAL acceleration.