For future reference, I was able to use "s_useOpenAL 0" and restart the sound with "snd_restart". At first it only slightly fixed the problem; I had to do the same in Quake III Arena and Team Arena for the problem to fully go away. The setting also has to be done with every mod.
Richard L Zarth III On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Prosnik <m...@rq3.com> wrote: > Did you come into IRC and find that the solution was to disable OpenAL? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard L Zarth III" <richardzarth...@gmail.com> > To: ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org > Sent: Saturday, 5 January, 2013 10:03:33 PM > Subject: [ioquake3] Sound Problem in Quake III Team Arena (OS X) > > > > I have recently installed ioquake3 on my MacBookPro9,2 (13-inch, Mid-1012) > laptop running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion using the 1.36 binary on the ioquake3 > website. I don't seem to have any problems with Quake III Arena, but with > Quake III Team Arena I am having a lot of sound issues. Many sounds are > replaced with the "default" sound (which seems to be sound/feedback/hit.wav, > the ping sound when you hit a target). When looking in the console after > loading a map, I see many strings that look like the following: > > > WARNING: Using default sound for sound/... > ERROR: Can't create a sound buffer for sound/... > Invalid value > > > The sounds seem to be random. Sometimes a certain sound won't work (such as > the chain gun shooting), but on another load it will. Most of the time (but > not all of the time) the sounds are Team Arena sounds. This problem is of > course very frustrating. I have tried reinstalling ioquake3 with no luck, > and I've tried reimporting the pak0.pk3 files for both Q3A and Q3TA with no > luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated! If any more info is needed on > my part please let me know. > > > -- > -Richard L Zarth III > _______________________________________________ > ioquake3 mailing list > ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org > http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org > By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl. > _______________________________________________ > ioquake3 mailing list > ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org > http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org > By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
