Hello,

I have a new question about sound files.

I am working with A7.8 Pro.

The game is very big and i got a new problem now.

Soundfiles are stopping in the middle. They don´t play until to the end. But that is not from the beginning. Only if I play the game some time and some level changings.

My question is: Is it possible that sound files are stopping in the middle if the nexus is too small?

I mean: Maybe the soundfiles are loaded into the RAM from the harddisk. And if a new soundfile starts in the same moment the old one will stop, because the other one is loading from the harddisk into the RAM. Could that be possible?

Or are there any other possible reasons?

Thank you for ideas ...

Ps.: I am sure that the code is okay, because it is working also in all the levels before.

I think I know the problem now.

Too much functions. It is not the nexus.

How many sounds are playing when they stop? (see debug panel)

About 18. But that is no problem in the levels before.

The problem appears with about 2500 running functions at the same moment. I have to optimize some parts.

The number of running functions is unrelated, but the number of playing sounds is not. 18 is probably too much for your hardware. Check your functions and sound ranges to get a lower number of sounds, maybe 8.

Hi JCL,

i know about the hardware limits. This was my first thought.

But I have made more tests and I have no idea what the problem could be.

I can play the game and all soundfiles are playing without any problems.

BUT: If I save the game or start a new game (that is also a saved game from the beginning) then it happens: Some soundfiles are stopping in the middle. And I don´t know why. And I have also seen, that it also happens with only 8 soundfiles at the same time.

Example:
I play the game, everything is fine.
I save the game in level 3 or level 4 as example.
I start a new game or I load a the same saved game from above and it happens.

I thought: Hmmm. Maybe the savegame files are damaged or something like that.

I exit the game. And restart the game. I load the savegame and everything is fine.

So it only happens if I load a game in the same session.
If I exit the game and restart it and load the saved game back then everything is okay.

What do you think? What could be the problem?

I have A7.8 Pro

When a sound stops in the middle, does the number of sounds in the F11 panel also go down? Or does it stay the same?

Good question. I will check it.

I have checked it and made also more tests.

The number of the sounds seems to going down after stop.

I have made a special test now:

I have saved the game, reloaded it and some sound files are stopping in the middle.

I resaved that game again and the loaded it: And the sound files are again shorter than before.

I resaved also that game and loaded it back and it was again more shorter than the one before.

It is getting shorter and shorter with each game_save and reload.

After some time you only here a part of a second from the sound files.

What do you think?

What could be the reason for that instead of hardware problems? Because it is working without game save and reload in the same game session.

I have never heared that anyone other had that problems with gamestudio.

So I will check the code again.

Do you have any snd_stop/tune instructions or the like in your code? What does happen if you remove those functions?