Mac OS Big Sur Compatibility

FMOD Studio
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Any word on FMOD being compatible with Mac OS Big Sur?

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We’ve had no issues so far and can verify it works on Apple Silicon Macs under Rosetta 2.

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Thanks! That’s good to know!

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I’m getting pretty frequent clicks and stutters using FMOD Studio 2.1.06 on M1 Mac Book Pro 13" (16GB RAM), macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. I can reproduce this playing any of the Music > Level events in the Examples project using just the built in speakers (either trying 44.1 or 48kHZ sample rate).

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Can you try playing the Event then record in the Profiler to see what the CPU stats look like?

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Hi Mathew,

I figured out that it seems to only happen when Perforce is online. I guess that makes sense since the Helix p4 client doesn’t officially support Big Sur or M1 yet, and maybe there’s background IO reads that are interrupting the audio stream thread? I haven’t heard the glitches since turning off perforce.

Let me know if you’d still like the profiler recording.

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Thanks for the info, Perforce must have been using a lot of system resources, glad to know closing it resolved the issue. I imagine there will be quite a few issues as everyone slowly migrates to M1. I won’t need the profiler recording now the cause is isolated, let me know if any other apps cause this problem, it’s good information for everyone.

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