Real channel count use increases per scene reload

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Hi,

I have vanilla RuntimeManager in a Unity game. The player has a camera, which spawns from code when the level is loaded - with an Event Listener, most events are triggered by code.

The issue I’m having is that the real channel usage is increasing per level reload (and I assume also between levels) so something is obviously upping this count - and I am experiencing cannibalism when audio is playing and sounds are dropping out.

I am reusing event instances (creating them once on game startup) and using instance.play() to trigger them. I assume I am not supposed to call release on these events in-game.

I have load banks “All” set in FMOD settings. I don’t know where these banks are referenced, I assume the RuntimeManager singleton. But something happens when I reload my scenes. Is it possible that if I don’t release an event on scene reload that something bad happens?

Worth mentioning is that all my code is persistent, they are not monobehaviors - the scenes themselves are mostly geometry and some scripts. The sound code is not.

Any ideas are most welcome.

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To see if it happens only on level reload or between levels I would suggest to use the profiler. Record a session while playing and you will be able to see where the instances increase in number.
First thing I would check is if you are re-creating the instances when restarting the scene. In that case stopping and releasing the instances before loading the scene would solve the issue.

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Thank you! I think I have located the issue, or at least I can clearly see in the profiler that there are more instances of a certain event that is not being released.

The FMOD profiler is absolutely awesome by the way - can’t belive I haven’t used it before.

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