Gears moving WAY too fast

[Questy]

I went to play this tonight and noticed that on level 1 and 2 there are little moving gears on the ground that are going a million miles an hour. I was able to finish level 1 because you can use those blocks to jump over them but in level 2 it's impossible to get by the first little gear.

I thought maybe this was a monitor Hz issue so I put my monitor down to 60 and even 24 Hz but the gears still go crazy.

Any idea on how to fix this one?

[Pretentieux]

It's also pretty annoying how the area that the gear moves over is sometimes not different in the way it looks, so a gear will just move across the terrain then turn around with no indication or "track" to visually keep tabs on what territory the gear has.

[annpigeon]

Oh, im trying to find out what is problem about. Pretentieux, do u have the same issue with gears speed?

[annpigeon]

What about gears visual tracking - well, i thought their unpredicted movement will make a game a little bit more complicated - but maybe u r right and it was a poor game design decision :\ But still thanks for letting me know, Pretentieux!

[Pretentieux]

The gears thing is not that big a deal. I'm just used to games showing the track the gears are fixed to, similar to the vertical "tracks" that you use for gears that go up & down.

Some of the ones that are along the floor just seem to stop at a random point and go the other way. It's just a design convention that is usually followed, to have a visual indicator on the ground that denotes the track.

Thanks again for the strong community involvement.

[Questy]

If it helps, this seems to also happen with the brackets on the main menu that show which option you have selected. They seem to go a normal speed at first and then ramp up going super fast.

[Pretentieux]

I wonder if it is a frame rate issue. Could you try forcing vsync in your graphics card settings for the Awesome Pea 2 application and seeing if that fixes it? Might help the dev fix it.

[Questy]

Good idea, but VSync is on for my card already.

[annpigeon]

Hello, ArrrCee! i have made some little tweaks and perhaps now problem should be solved (but brackets movement still the same). Please let me know of result :)

[Questy]

Yes, that did fix it, nice!

[Questy]

Small issue to put on the fix list as well, you can use the d pad to move left and right on the map screen, however the joystick won't let you move right on the map.

[Questy]

Oh and the fast gears moving things, while fixed, I know you said the brackets on the main screen would not be. I actually popped the game into windowed mode (alt enter) on the main menu and this actually made it so the brackets moved at a normal animation speed.

So basically, Fullscreen, super fast! Windowed mode, animates normal speed.