FMOD Project Stuck at 99% Loading

FMOD Studio
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Hello,

This morning, when I came into the office and launched FMOD, my project gets stuck at 99% while loading.

I have tried a wide range of troubleshooting steps to open the project (including disabling antivirus software, among many others), but none of them worked. The only method that allowed the project to open was deleting the following folder:

Metadata/EncodingSettings

However, even when the project opens this way, several serious issues occur:

  • After running Repair, all Platform settings are lost
  • Audio files do not play at all
  • When I try to Add Platform, FMOD becomes unresponsive, forcing me to terminate the program

Could you please help us identify the cause of this issue or suggest a way to recover the project without losing recent work?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

#update2

I’d like to update the situation. At first, we thought the issue was specific to our project files, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Even FMOD sample projects and any other projects freeze during loading. The program becomes unresponsive at around 90%–99% while loading, and eventually stays in a frozen state.

This happens consistently across all projects, not just our own.

#update3

I deleted all files under AppData and performed a clean reinstall of FMOD Studio, but the program itself will not launch properly. The process appears in the task manager, but no window or UI is displayed.

Interestingly, if I delete the EncodingSetting folder inside the example project, FMOD Studio finally launches. However, when I create a new project and then save and load it, the program gets stuck at 98% again.

In other words, regardless of the project or the FMOD Studio version, the program only launches successfully if the EncodingSetting folder is deleted. Otherwise, it either fails to show any window or gets stuck during loading.

This makes me think there is something wrong specifically on my PC related to encoding settings or the environment itself.
Could someone please help me understand what might be happening on my system and how to fix this?

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I finally found the cause.
The culprit was the gamepad.

When I disconnected the gamepad’s USB and ran the program, FMOD launched normally.
It’s a bit absurd, but I’m curious why this happened and why only FMOD failed to run because of it.

Anyway, I’m just glad it’s solved.