I was experiencing random crashes. I also hate 2d sound.

Before coming to this forum I looked in the .cfg file and notice the openal string and after poking around on the web and noticing what it was I enabled it.

I crashed less right off the bat (I have an audigy). After poking around more I noticed that the latest Audigy drivers have an OpenAL32.dll version older then the one found in the JO directory. So I replaced the one in the winnt/system32 with the one from JO's directory.

Sound quality and 3d sound rendering sounded better to me, and I haven't crashed yet after 2 hours. I'll post back tomorrow if I still haven't crashed.

Crashed once since I did this. Seemed to help in my case I think.

Have an Athlon, Kt7a, Audigy and GF3 and win2k btw

Eridath... By crashing, do you mean a system crash or program crash? Lockup/Freeze or exit from the program/collapse of the OS?

I'm curious if my problems are related to my own Audigy, as in the days of DOS most of my problems had something to do with a misconfiguration of the soundcard; but I'm having the system lock-up, not a crash.

All the same, I'm going to give this a try. The .dll file--is it installed in the JO directory or is it on the CD?

Thanks,
~Snowy

It's a hard lock up from within the game I was having, causing the need to reboot.

OpenAL32.dll is found in the JO directory in the main folder. I also found an older revision of it in the system32 directory of my win2k install. I replaced the one in the system32 directory with the one from JO.

Cool. (Well, not cool, 'cause it sucks to have it happen, but cool because that's the same problem I'm having so maybe it'll help.)