jmonkeyengine: OpenALException: Invalid Device during app intialization on Windows

I recently began seeing this crash with software/hardware that used to work. I suspect it’s caused by misconfiguration and/or failing hardware on my Window 7 system. Last time I fixed it by changing the default audio device. This time, I want to document the stack trace:

AL lib: (EE) DoReset: Failed to initialize audio client: 0x887c0032
Jul 25, 2019 8:31:18 PM com.jme3.app.LegacyApplication handleError
SEVERE: Uncaught exception thrown in Thread[jME3 Main,5,main]
org.lwjgl.openal.OpenALException: Invalid Device
	at org.lwjgl.openal.Util.checkALCError(Util.java:55)
	at org.lwjgl.openal.ALC10.alcCreateContext(ALC10.java:251)
	at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.init(AL.java:173)
	at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:143)
	at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:102)
	at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:206)
	at com.jme3.audio.lwjgl.LwjglALC.createALC(LwjglALC.java:15)
	at com.jme3.audio.openal.ALAudioRenderer.initOpenAL(ALAudioRenderer.java:95)
	at com.jme3.audio.openal.ALAudioRenderer.initialize(ALAudioRenderer.java:225)
	at com.jme3.app.LegacyApplication.initAudio(LegacyApplication.java:283)
	at com.jme3.app.LegacyApplication.initialize(LegacyApplication.java:602)
	at com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication.initialize(SimpleApplication.java:178)
	at com.jme3.system.lwjgl.LwjglAbstractDisplay.initInThread(LwjglAbstractDisplay.java:130)
	at com.jme3.system.lwjgl.LwjglAbstractDisplay.run(LwjglAbstractDisplay.java:211)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

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Created 5 years ago
Comments: 16 (9 by maintainers)

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Not a jMonkeyEngine user but today someone reported what appaears to be the same OpenAL issue with my own engine. They were able to work around the issue by unplugging their headphones (although the OpenAL device name reported “OpenAL Soft on Speakers (Conexant SmartAudio HD)”).

AL lib: (EE) ALCwasapiPlayback_resetProxy: Failed to check format support: 0x80040154
AL lib: (EE) ALCwasapiPlayback_resetProxy: Failed to initialize audio client: 0x80070006

Subscribing to this issue in case someone figures it out.

KeyboardDanni on Feb 15, 2020

If you can no longer reproduce the issue then I guess you fixed it… 😛

Anyway, I can test the fix for the scenario I mentioned earlier, if I know where to get your fix from.

wouterio on Sep 18, 2019