Game sfx stop and prevents game from closing properly

FMOD Engine
1

Hello, some players are running into an audio issue with my game and I was hoping I could get some help here. I’m using a custom c++ engine with FMOD 2.02.11 (I just now upgraded to 2.02.24).

The issue is that after a long play session the sfx audio will suddenly stop playing. Once this does happen the exe wont close properly either. This leads me to believe that the fmod system is getting into a broken state somehow.

When the game is exiting one thing it will do is cleanup fmod by doing the following.

for (auto bank : s_banks) {
    bank->unload();
}
// m_system is a FMOD::Studio::System*
s_system->flushCommands();
s_system->release();

I see in the documentation that flushCommands is blocking so I believe it is this call that prevents the game from properly closing.

How is it that the FMOD system can get into this state? Any tips on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated! If there is additional information needed then please let me know and I’ll do my best to provide it.

Thank you!

2

Apologies for the delayed response.

Can I get you to use Debug_Initialize with the logging libs (i.e. fmodL.dll), set the flags argument to FMOD_DEBUG_LEVEL_LOG, and post a log where the issue occurs? I would also recommend logging the results of your FMOD calls, since most of them will return a result which may help to indicate where the issue is occurring.