Sound initialization is freezing

Java Sound & OpenAL
#1

So I have a game loop, and there is an initialization that happens as part of a “loading screen”. This runs smoothly until I try to create an OpenAL context. Any ideas on why this line is freezing?

ALContext context = ALContext.create()
#2

What confuses me is sometimes it creates everything quickly and works fine, but sometimes it just doesn’t initialize at all.

#3

Any errors?

#4

EDIT: Lol NVM its the same thing.

#5

No Ed_RockStarGuy.

However I did notice something. When I made ALContext context a global field it seemed to work? Maybe the context is being garbage collected and that’s causing issues?

Edit: Nevermind about the global field making it work.

#6

The scary thing is, the exact same thing is happening to me right now… It worked all the time before… it just started doing this now…

EDIT: Everything which used sound was freezing on my computer but everything worked after I rebooted the computer… If I took a guess, it had something to do with the sound card… Maybe try a reboot on your computer and if that Isn’t it, then maybe it has something to do with your sound card?

#7

Would you clarify which binding this is in the OP, ta.

Cas :slight_smile:

#8

I’m using pure lwjgl.

#9

… Which LWJGL? :emo:

Cas :slight_smile:

#10

Oh… lwjgl 3

#11

I experienced the same thing with build #37, but I thought that it was something to do with my crappy dying computer.