How to temporarily stop using FMOD in the game?

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We are using FMOD in Unity’s mobile game project, we want to detect when the user has been inactive for a long time, temporarily stop FMOD, and wake up FMOD when the user restarts the operation. Is there a way to achieve this?

I see that CoreSystem has close() and init() apis, can I use them for this purpose?

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The API call you’re looking for are likely System::mixerSuspend and System::mixerResume. It’s worth noting that you should avoid making FMOD API callbs between suspending and resuming, as you may run the risk of causing a deadlock.

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Is it possible to reduce the hardware performance overhead of FMOD when pausing in this way?

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I ignored the description in the documentation, which can really reduce the overhead of hardware performance:

Used on mobile platforms when entering a backgrounded state to reduce CPU to 0%.

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