Fixing Minecraft Sound Issue in Minecraft
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Minecraft Version: 1.1.0
Guide Version: 1.0
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THIS GUIDE IS FOR THE WINDOWS OS ONLY IT
HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED ON VISTA 64-BIT
HOWEVER IT SHOULD BE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL
VERSIONS OF WINDOWS, INCLUDING 32-BIT.
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1. Firstly navigate to the Minecraft dir
"%appdata%\.minecraft\bin\natives\"
You should see 2 DLL files.
OpenAL32.dll
OpenAL64.dll
Rename both of these files like...
OpenALxx.dll.old
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2. Navigate to the System32 folder
"%systemroot%\System32"
Hopefully there should be some form of
"OpenAL32.dll" in this directory.
If so then just copy and paste it in
place of the Minecraft one we renamed.
Otherwise, navigate to this location:
http://connect.creat...abs.com/openal/ ... Items.aspx
Select "oalinst" from the download list
and install OpenAL. When that is done you
should see OpenAL in the System32 dir
as we original had hoped.
Now you can just copy and paste this into
the Minecraft directory.
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3. Start Minecraft and hope it fixed the
problem!
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ADDENDUM - Read for extra useless info!!!
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1. You don't need to copy the OpenAL DLLs
into the Minecraft dir, so long as they
exist in System32, however I found it is
slower starting up if they're not.
2. OpenAL64.dll is redundant apparently,
I am on a 64-bit OS yet lack any OAL64
DLL (at least, accessible to Minecraft)
yet sound works perfectly normal.
3. This only fixes a specific problem,
outdated OpenAL DLLs that are shipped
with Minecraft. It will not solve all
sound related issues.
4. There are downloads for the Mac
version of OpenAL also on the site,
if you have sound issues on a Mac
you can try to adapt this fix to
work on your computer using the Mac
download instead of the MSWin one.
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