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When i try to start the game it gives an error that "OpenAL32.dll" wasn't found. I downloaded 7zip to unzip the file, i don't know if it worked.

I had the same problem. I found a link to a website with fixes for that issue. Try updating your video and sound cards first and then use the link in this article to download the missing dll from Creative Labs. I don't recommend trying to find it on Google as you might get an untrusted source with a possible virus.

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-fix-openal32-dll-not-found-or-missing-errors-262...

We are currently missing the dll from the current build and are working to get a build with it packaged together. For now I recommend downloading openal from https://www.openal.org/downloads/ directly. Install the windows installer version and relaunch the game.

Newer builds no longer have these issues. OpenAL comes with itch and itch now extracts the game correctly.

thank you for the response! i tried the new build but now i get an error that says the application can't be started (0xc000007b)

Could you email the details of the crash to support@awayteam.space? Things like OS and any .dmp files in the folder's root and any logs from %appdata%\TheAwayTeam\logs (assuming your on some version of windows)

I'm downloaded the game, unzipped it and am also having the (0xc000007b) issue. It appears as soon as I launch the game. Can't even get to menu.

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did you try downloading/installing openal. From what I reproed that seemed to work.

What is openal? I tried deleting it, redownloading, and opening it back up. That didn't work. Then I downloaded the other versions of it, and those didn't work. I tried to get the game to check for a need of repairs and nothing came up. It doesn't even show the main load screen, just the error sign taking up everything.

OpenAL is the Open Audio Library. It's an open source audio library that the open source library I use uses. Which I use SFML which is the Simple, Fast, Multimedia, Library. Does things like inputs, rendering, and sounds. So from what I found is https://openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip installing this will typically fix that bug. If not you could try installing MSVC++ redist 2015. If you are launching through the itch client you should no longer have issues with either of these things.