This is related to this thread: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=49923.msg469095
Basically, if you have too many items that create ambient sounds, the following error occurs:
This continuously floods output_log.txt and on exit, it will hang the game because it keeps writing endlessly the following in a loop:
This is the worst part of the problem because it produces an output_log.txt that can be as large as hundreds of gigabytes depending on how long you've been playing or how long you let it hang while exiting the game.
When I renamed HygieneSounds.xml to HygieneSounds.xml.bak, the errors no longer happen. Of course, the ambient sounds also do not play, but they weren't playing anyway in the first place because of the problem itself.
It may be a specific item only, which is what I'm trying to find out at the moment. The culprit I'm looking at is the sewage_Ambience, because I have quite a few of them in my biggest colony, so maybe just removing these specific SoundDefs will resolve the issue while the other sounds still be working.
Basically, if you have too many items that create ambient sounds, the following error occurs:
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C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/AudioSource.cpp(944) : Error executing channel->set3DPanLevel(spatialBlendLevel) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/sound/SoundChannel.cpp(240) : Error executing m_FMODChannel->set3DSpread(spread) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/AudioSource.cpp(945) : Error executing channel->set3DSpread(spread * 360.0f) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/sound/SoundChannel.cpp(286) : Error executing m_FMODChannel->setPan(pan) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/AudioSource.cpp(946) : Error executing channel->setPan(stereoPan) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/sound/SoundChannel.cpp(313) : Error executing m_FMODChannel->getReverbProperties(reverbproperties) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/AudioSource.cpp(960) : Error executing channel->getReverbProperties(&props) (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)This continuously floods output_log.txt and on exit, it will hang the game because it keeps writing endlessly the following in a loop:
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C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/sound/SoundChannel.cpp(447) : Error executing m_FMODChannel->stop() (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)
C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Audio/sound/SoundChannel.cpp(447) : Error executing m_FMODChannel->stop() (The specified channel has been reused to play another sound. )
(Filename: Line: 16)This is the worst part of the problem because it produces an output_log.txt that can be as large as hundreds of gigabytes depending on how long you've been playing or how long you let it hang while exiting the game.
When I renamed HygieneSounds.xml to HygieneSounds.xml.bak, the errors no longer happen. Of course, the ambient sounds also do not play, but they weren't playing anyway in the first place because of the problem itself.
It may be a specific item only, which is what I'm trying to find out at the moment. The culprit I'm looking at is the sewage_Ambience, because I have quite a few of them in my biggest colony, so maybe just removing these specific SoundDefs will resolve the issue while the other sounds still be working.