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Diagnosing Silent Output in OpenAL: Context, Distance, and Buffer Checks

When OpenAL initializes but no audio plays, this guide pinpoints context activation, distance attenuation, and buffer underrun issues with a diagnostic table, ordered checks, and practical fixes.

context-management distance-model buffer-queueingTasadduq Burneyowner35.8K rep · 15 Apr 2026, 22:46 UTC