Sounds stop playing in combination with BGS on Mac

[pagroove]

I have a problem that after a while sounds stops playing.
These messages are in the Latest.log.

I use BGS.
Any Idea why there is a sudden problem with the OpenAL buffer?
I can sometimes do 2/3 system jumps and then the problem does manifest. But at random times. Combat situations with repeating laser fire seems to lead to some sort of buffer overflow.

Is this also on other systems?

I'm on Os X 10.9.3.
No problems with other sound applications.

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00:11:29.447 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:30.674 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:34.926 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:36.103 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:36.113 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:36.113 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:36.676 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:37.451 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:40.466 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:41.686 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:42.986 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:44.051 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:46.472 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:46.481 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:48.411 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:54.956 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:11:56.798 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:24.484 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:29.993 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:32.398 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:32.984 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:34.149 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:34.883 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:35.728 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:38.643 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:38.849 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:39.028 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:39.223 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:39.393 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:39.579 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:39.758 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer
00:12:39.928 [sound.load.error]: Could not create OpenAL buffer

[cim]

There's a limit of 1,024 AL buffers simultaneously available, but any individual sound should only be using at most two of them, and there are only 32 sound channels, so we should never get anywhere near that limit.

There is one possibility, reading the OpenAL documentation again, that the way deallocation of buffers is done may be the problem. I'm slightly surprised it's not come up on Linux or Windows if so but maybe their OpenAL library is designed differently - I'll try to put a patch together for that tonight.

[pagroove]

Ok Cim Thanks. Let me know when I can try it out.

[cim]

If I'm right about what's causing it, then it should be fixed in commit 853e0be for tonight's build.

[pagroove]

If I'm right about what's causing it, then it should be fixed in commit 853e0be for tonight's build.

Will look into it Sunday and report back.

[jtarheel42]

I still keep getting that same problem.