Hi everyone, I’m using the low-level system to initialize sounds, by getting the low-level system from the StudioSystem, then creating a sound calling Sound = LowLevelSystem->createSound(... // LowLevelSystem is of type FMOD::System* Sound is a class member, and after my (Unreal Engine UCLASS) cl…

Thanks for the response. If I am to release them myself, can you give me advise on when to do that? I’ve installed the normal UE4 plugin into my UE4.14 project, all latest versions, and I’m making some sounds using the LowLevelSystem. However, when I want to release these sounds the StudioSystem …

If you create an object using the LowLevelSystem you will need to manually release it. This would generally be done in something like the BeginDestroy or Destroyed functions. This can be an issue in Editor because the FMOD Systems are released before everything is cleaned up by Unreal, but will func…

I’m only using the system in the game runtime, so this should suffice. I will try this! Thanks!

Are low-level created system sounds released automatically?

Unreal Engine

brett February 10, 2017, 12:50am 2

No you have to free the sounds yourself. If FMOD uses a memory pool though you can basically close fmod down then free the pool memory.

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Are low-level created system sounds released automatically?

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