Saving, importing, moving takes lots of time

FMOD Studio
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Hi, i’ve been dealing with very long times of loading in FMOD Studio. I’m using version 2.02.11. We are using Perforce as for version control and Unreal Engine 5.
The issue happens when deleting, moving files or creating folders in the Audio bin, when saving the project after importing new files, building…

We have no clue on what could be the cause of such waiting time.

This is the fmod log, I only pasted the part when importing creating a folder and importing assets

  2024-01-19 16:53:46 Activated 'MahouFMOD.fspro[*] - Event Editor' for 'F:/Repositories/Mahou/FMODProject/MahouFMOD/MahouFMOD.fspro'
  2024-01-19 16:53:57 Macro: New Folder
* 2024-01-19 16:54:01 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:01 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:54:06 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:06 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:54:18 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:18 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:54:23 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:23 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:54:32 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:32 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:54:37 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:37 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

  2024-01-19 16:54:43 Macro: Import Assets...
  2024-01-19 16:54:43 Macro: Rename Asset
* 2024-01-19 16:54:47 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:47 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:54:52 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:54:52 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:55:00 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:55:00 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

* 2024-01-19 16:55:05 [Scripting]runP4: error running command: -z tag -r0 -vnet.maxwait=10 -p ssl:34.236.157.107:1666 -C none -u k4rru -P ***** -c Karina_Mahou edit
* 2024-01-19 16:55:05 [Scripting]runP4: Usage: add/edit/delete [-c changelist#] [ -d -f -I -k -n -v ] [-t type] [--remote=rmt] files...

  2024-01-19 16:55:24 Event activated: event:/UI/UIGameplay/DialogueText
  2024-01-19 16:55:24 Activated 'MahouFMOD.fspro[*] - Event Editor' for 'F:/Repositories/Mahou/FMODProject/MahouFMOD/MahouFMOD.fspro'
  2024-01-19 16:55:32 Macro: Import Assets...
  2024-01-19 17:30:41 Macro: Link DAW Projects...

It took like 30 minutes to load 8mb in total of files. What could be the cause?
Attached the log in case you want to see more…saving, building and submitting takes time also.

2024-01-19-16-42-16_log.txt (321.9 KB)

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Thanks for attaching your logs.

If you disconnect the project from source control, do you still run into the large wait times when performaing actions? Also, are you using the “Perforce” integration, or “Perforce (Legacy Integration)”? If it’s the former, try changing to the latter, as it should be faster in general and may resolve or mitigate the long wait times.

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Hi Louis, thanks for replying!
When working offline it works like a charm, almost no load times when importing several files. Tried with legacy integration with perforce and it seems to work just a little bit faster…but still takes lots of time saving, importing, moving, creating, deleting renaming folders or files.
I dont know what do you mean by performing actions? Do you mean modifying parameters, creating events, creating effects? If that’s what you mean, there is no problem with that. It looks like the issue only affects when writing or accessing file data.

I attach the log again with the test

2024-01-24-14-18-20_log.txt (132.8 KB)

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Apologies for the delayed response.

I assume you aren’t running into similar issues with your UE project, which would definitely make this seem like an FMOD issues. Some additional time performing actions that interact with the filesystem (not other actions like creating/modifying elements of the project, as you’ve noted) when using one of the source control integrations is expected, but the amount you’re observing definitely isn’t expected for a small project.

Would it be possible to get you to upload your project to your FMOD user profile so that I can throw it up on a P4 server of our own and see if there’s anything specific about it that’s causing this? Note that you’ll have to register a project with us in order to upload.