# Disables OpenAL Soft's event thread because we don't need it (we only need to render to the loopback driver), and because it causes problems on platforms with no threading support.

--- a/al/event.cpp
+++ b/al/event.cpp
@@ -116,34 +116,34 @@ static int EventThread(ALCcontext *context)
 
 void StartEventThrd(ALCcontext *ctx)
 {
-    try {
-        ctx->mEventThread = std::thread{EventThread, ctx};
-    }
-    catch(std::exception& e) {
-        ERR("Failed to start event thread: %s\n", e.what());
-    }
-    catch(...) {
-        ERR("Failed to start event thread! Expect problems.\n");
-    }
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 }
 
 void StopEventThrd(ALCcontext *ctx)
 {
-    RingBuffer *ring{ctx->mAsyncEvents.get()};
-    auto evt_data = ring->getWriteVector().first;
-    if(evt_data.len == 0)
-    {
-        do {
-            std::this_thread::yield();
-            evt_data = ring->getWriteVector().first;
-        } while(evt_data.len == 0);
-    }
-    al::construct_at(reinterpret_cast<AsyncEvent*>(evt_data.buf), AsyncEvent::KillThread);
-    ring->writeAdvance(1);
 
-    ctx->mEventSem.post();
-    if(ctx->mEventThread.joinable())
-        ctx->mEventThread.join();
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 AL_API void AL_APIENTRY alEventControlSOFT(ALsizei count, const ALenum *types, ALboolean enable)
--- a/core/context.h
+++ b/core/context.h
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct ContextBase {
     using EffectSlotArray = al::FlexArray<EffectSlot*>;
     std::atomic<EffectSlotArray*> mActiveAuxSlots{nullptr};
 
-    std::thread mEventThread;
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     al::semaphore mEventSem;
     std::unique_ptr<RingBuffer> mAsyncEvents;
     using AsyncEventBitset = std::bitset<AsyncEvent::UserEventCount>;