Technical Support - Creative X-Fi bug: PoE uses old "hardcoded" OpenAL32.dll (suggestion for fix) - Forum - Path of Exile

BattleMage: To disable patching, add "--nopatch" to the command line of the client. Our current issue is that the Creative OpenAL site prevents us from downloading the most recent SDK, and the DLLs they have there are older than the versions you mentioned. We'll update the game in the next few days to more recent DLLs, but Creative needs to fix their site before we can update it all the way. We've contacted their support twice and the most recent mail from today says that it's going to be a while before it's fixed. Lead Developer. Follow us on: Twitter \| YouTube \| Facebook \| Contact Support if you need help!	Posted by Chris on Sep 16, 2012, 9:54:08 PM Grinding Gear Games Quote this Post
" BattleMage wrote: I'm one of the X-Fi users and the only way to run the game so far has been to do it without sound. I'm using the latest (2.25) PAX drivers. I had this issue with some games since I got my X-Fi, but as most of them were offline games the solution was very easy: Delete OpenAL32.dll and wrap_oal.dll from the game directory and everything is just fine. The PoE Launcher will redownload both of the DLL files everytime it is started and will refuse to start of the two files as write protected. The easiest solution for X-Fi users would be to add a switch to Client.exe so that it won't check/patch the two files and the users can safely remove them from the game directory so that the newer ones from the system directory will be used. OpenAL32.dll PoE: 6.14.0357.22 OpenAL32.dll System: 6.14.0357.25 wrap_oal.dll PoE: 2.1.8.1 wrap_oal.dll System: 2.2.0.7 I've read the topics OpenAL32.dll/soft_oal.dll in the same directory as Client.exe Sound Problems X-Fi Xtreme Music Creative SB X-Fi sound issue Creative X-FI xtreme gamer - SPDIF/Surround sound - No sounds at all http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/Forms/AllItems.aspx On that page the most recent OpenAL verisons are: OpenAL32.dll version 6.14.357.24 wrap_oal.dll version 2.2.0.5 Any idea where you got versions even later than that? One possible option is that you send me those files and I could include them in our distribution. (They should have a digital signatures so no security worries about that) Path of Exile II - Game Director	Posted by Jonathan on Sep 16, 2012, 9:57:41 PM Grinding Gear Games Quote this Post
Hey, I enabled game access on your account. Can you check if the game is now working fine in extended play? Edit: By the way, you made the same mistake I did and put the 32 bit executables in the 64 bit folder and vice versa. Path of Exile II - Game Director Last edited by Jonathan on Sep 17, 2012, 6:22:34 PM	Posted by Jonathan on Sep 17, 2012, 5:20:13 PM Grinding Gear Games Quote this Post

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