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Hardware audio subsystem stopped responding. Silent mode is enabled.

This indicates that the audio driver did not respond to Wwise for a significant amount of time. This usually mean the audio driver crashed, reconfigured, or reset on its own without notifying the sound engine or the application. The engine is put in a safe mode where no audio device is selected. The audio events are still processed so the synchronization with the game is not lost.

Normally, this error will resolve itself when the system's audio driver restarts.

On some systems, such as iOS and Android phones, this error could occur upon receiving a system interruption for a phone call, for example. Audio should normally resume after the interruption.

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