Can only use FreeAudio driver?

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Htbaa

(Posted 2009) [#1]

When using FreeAudio all seems to be fine. However, since this driver is causing me lots of delays it's not usable for me.

So, instead, I tried DirectSound and OpenAL (downloaded the dll's for the latter) but both give me this error:

Unhandled Exception:Attempt to access field or method of Null object

Which seems to occur at SetChannelVolume().

I've already preloaded my audio files, assigned channels for them (in the objects constructor, is this a bad thing?) and with FreeAudio it works fine.

Am I missing something?

GfK	(Posted 2009) [#2]

This code will show you which audio drivers are available (for use with SetAudioDriver())

EnableOpenALAudio()
For s:String = EachIn AudioDrivers()
	Print s
Next

You should probably set the audio driver before loading any sounds.

Htbaa

(Posted 2009) [#3]

Thanks. Loading the sounds after loading the driver did the trick!