OpenAL is killing me

[fishpen0]

Ever since the most recent blockland update, whenever I switch from the blockland window to any other window (including the console) and switch back again it takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes for blockland to become functional again.  From what i can see the console doing, it appears that it has something to do with OpenAL which activates whenever I switch windows...  This is seriously impairing my ability to host servers.  I have attached a copy of my console.  Note: this time while I was hosting it got so bad i was forced to close blockland.

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[fishpen0]

...From what i can see the console doing, it appears that it has something to do with OpenAL which activates whenever I click off of the blockland game window...

[fishpen0]

One last thing before I log off for the night...  It happened a few times in that log and here is an example of what it says when it is done:

OpenAL Driver Init:
OpenAL
   Vendor: Creative Labs Inc.
   Version: OpenAL 1.0
   Renderer: Software
   Extensions: EAX 2.0, EAX 3.0, EAX Unified, and EAX-AC3

It never used to do this when I played BL before the update.

[TheCannon187]

I don't know whether this will help or not, but here is a fresh OpenAL DLL.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8xmzzylftdj

[Badspot]

Have you tried disabling sound to find out if it's really openAL that's causing the problem?  Select "None" as the sound driver.

If it is the problem, un-check the "Turn off sound on alt-tab" option.  That way it wont try to re-initialize the sound driver every time. 

[fishpen0]

That alt-tab option seems to have been what did it.  Thanks for the help.