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  1. Minecraft: Java Edition
  2. MC-103105

Unable to initialize OpenAL on ~90% of starts

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    • Minecraft 1.9.4
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    • Windows 8.1, Oracle Java 8u91
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      Relates to MC-103095

      READ THROUGH THIS DESCRIPTION. LAST TICKET WAS CLOSED WITH COMMENT THAT CLEARLY SHOWED THE DESCRIPTION WAS NOT READ!

      I haven't counted this scientifically but in 9 out of 10 starts I get no sound and the console says this:

      ERROR byt Error in class 'LibraryLWJGLOpenAL'
      ERROR byt Unable to initialize OpenAL.  Probable cause: OpenAL not supported.
      

      This happens even with the default launcher and an unmodified client and after many, many retries (re-starting game) it works properly.
      In case you're wondering: Everything else on my computer works perfectly fine and all my drivers are up-to-date.
      As you can imagine, this is borderline annoying. This started happening, I think, with 1.8, although I'm not sure. Never had this issue with 1.7 though!
      PS: I've searched before creating a new issue. I've extensively searched the internet and this JIRA to no avail. I found a lot of stuff on the net with that issue with posts ranging back as far as 2012 and I found the search in this JIRA to be not very helpful at all.

      Please advise

      If you need me to provide more details and/or debug infos to help you solve this, please tell me and I'll provide it if I can.

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            luxiphr Dominik Keil
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