soft_oal.dll?

[Coom Patrol]

Whenever I try to load Hacknet now, the DOS window (or whatever it is) spits out :

OpenAL not found! Need FNA.d11. config? 

Unhandled Exception: System. D11NotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'soft_oal.dll': 
The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 8x8887887E)
    at microsoft.Xna.Framework.SDL2 FNAPlatform.CreateALDevice() 
    at microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio.AudioDevice.Initialize( ) 
    at microsoft.Xna.Framework.FrameworkDispatcher.Update( )
    at microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game..ctor() 
    at Hacknet.Game1..ctor() 
    at Hacknet.Program.Main(String[] args)

The thing is, soft_oal.dll is already in Hacknet's folder. What's going on? The two culprits I can think of for this issue are the Windows 10 Creator's Update, and a Java update - several of my other games aren't running at all (they'll go from "running" to "syncing", and then nothing).

[Azure Zero]

Win10 tends to break stuff.

[NeoKat 🍃]

Try XNA beta branch.

Code: hacknetxnabranch

[Coom Patrol]

Originally posted by CreepiX:

Try XNA beta branch.

Code: hacknetxnabranch

Now it's doing the same thing as the other games: "running", "syncing", then nothing.

[aixiel]

I too have this problem with Win10. Anyone have a solution?

[Coom Patrol]

Originally posted by aixiel:

I too have this problem with Win10. Anyone have a solution?

I ultimately did a system restore to roll back to before the Creators Update. That fixed the problem.

[Meezter]

Havin' the same problem with creators update, yet didn't play the game before the update, so I'm not sure if the update has to do something with it, but right now I can't start the game, getting the same message as Serenade and I've got the creators update of Windows, dev?

[Talon]

Try going into Steam's Hacknet folder, open the _CommonRedist folder and run the DotNet and XNA installers you'll find in there. Also make sure there is a FNA.dll and FNA.dll.config file in your Hacknet folder after doing so.