Sound Error Messages

[pedro menzani]

I used to play the game normally, but now this error messages shows in game when I do any action that would execute a sound, like move a peasent. The game runs normally, but the big number of messages make it slow and disrupts the vision.

THis is the error message in "interestinglog":

0 A.D. (0.0.23) Main log (warnings and errors only) ERROR: Sound: AlcInit failed, m_Device=0x0 m_Context=0x0 dev_name=OpenAL Soft err=a004 ERROR: OpenAL error: (null); called from CSoundManager::~CSoundManager (line 277) Engine exited successfully on 2018-07-26 at 23:35:47 with 421 message(s), 2 error(s) and 0 warning(s).

[pedro menzani]

screenshot of "interestinglog"

[pedro menzani]

error messages in game

[s0600204]

Greetings!

The initial error message indicates that 0AD is unable to locate your computer’s sound card.

• Have you updated your drivers recently?
• Have you updated your operating system recently?
• Do you have a set of headphones partly plugged in?
• Do other applications on your computer output audio correctly?
• Is anything trying to output audio whilst 0AD is running (media player, web browser, or streaming client)?

And as requested on the forums, kindly upload the 'system.txt' file (and not a screenshot of), which can be found in the same folder as the log files.

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Possible duplicate of #3285

Link to original forum thread: ​https://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?/topic/24673-sound-error-messages/

[Stan]

It's defo a duplicate of #3285