Bug report for game freezes

[DemandP³e]

Just starting out playing the game, two games played and a game freeze in each thus far. These bug reports are just for the developer's awareness since I know this type of bug is incredibly hard to track down and isolate.

1st game after tutorial. Act 1 - Gate Boss as Duchy: Game became unresponsive to mouse and keyboard inputs when gate opened. Background music was still playing. Alt-Tab and forced a shutdown of Steam to exit game. After restarting the game, some of the default controls were remapped (notably shift left 'A' had been remapped to 'Q', the default action for 'Q' had been remapped to a different key as well). Game was resumed and played until defeat at Act 3 Boss with no further issues.

2nd game. Act 2 - Fortification Boss as Duchy: Game became unresponsive to mouse and keyboard inputs on the results page after the completion of a fully successful battle phase (I had troops remaining, no loss of defense). I already received the achievement for that during my 1st game. Background music was still playing. Alt-Tab and forced a shutdown of Steam to exit game. Successful completion of the boss was not recorded when resuming the game. No controls seem to be remapped, though I am using a modified keymap now. Game has not been progressed yet, as of posting this.

These problems could just be caused by the Linux PC with a Nvidia GPU I am using to play. I may do some testing by playing a new match of the game on the W11 side of the dual-boot that I have set up.

[Sleepy Mill Studio]

Hello, yes that's probably an issue with Linux, the drivers or the GPU, these crash normally have error codes

[Tyrfing]

Can confirm the game freezes for me as well. Also on Linux.

What works for me is playing the game with controller. It only freezes when using mouse and keyboard. I think it doesn't really freeze the computer, but somehow blocks or remaps the input devices and makes it unresponsive.
The times it happened to me I couldn't even tab out and close it.

I played through it with 2 different factions without any issues using the controller though.
Not great but fine by me. It's worth playing with controllers.
Leaving this as a comment, in case someone is open for a workaround. This worked for me.

[jafferduo]

Originally posted by Tyrfing:

Can confirm the game freezes for me as well. Also on Linux.

What works for me is playing the game with controller. It only freezes when using mouse and keyboard. I think it doesn't really freeze the computer, but somehow blocks or remaps the input devices and makes it unresponsive.
The times it happened to me I couldn't even tab out and close it.

I played through it with 2 different factions without any issues using the controller though.
Not great but fine by me. It's worth playing with controllers.
Leaving this as a comment, in case someone is open for a workaround. This worked for me.

I also suffer the game freeze recently, too.
Does It really happens with mouse/keyboard only? It's weird.

[jafferduo]

I just reinstall this game and replay my ascension 4 in the middle, it takes only a few minutes then the game froze again.

Originally posted by Tyrfing:

What works for me is playing the game with controller. It only freezes when using mouse and keyboard. I think it doesn't really freeze the computer, but somehow blocks or remaps the input devices and makes it unresponsive.
The times it happened to me I couldn't even tab out and close it.

Excuse me, Tyrfing, does the controller you use a gamepad or something? Do you play this game on PC with a gamepad/controller link on your PC?

[jafferduo]

I just found that if I play this game without DLC installed, everything is fine now.
I also use a save file I reserved long time ago, it just took me a little time to unlock all stuffs in the Progression Tree.

(Extra Note: You can disable steam input for every individual game, if you don't play with a controller, but if you reinstall Steam, you'll have to re-disable it again.)

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(Edit: After a few days later, it still bugged up. I really hate this. I think both my CPU and this game [or Steam] (may) cause the issue...)

[jafferduo]

My game just froze within a short period again, I'd reinstalled both the game and Steam.
I'm in the middle of a nightmare difficulty run; and no matter how I try, I always can't even finish one battle when the run reach the certain point, which makes me stuck on Act I.
I still haven't get a controller yet, but how could this happening? If the controller issue is true, that really makes no sense, because when I played this game on the very old version that still doesn't have card re-lock(and undo and others) function, it never bugged up like that.
Or maybe it's because of Win 11? I really don't get this.

[jafferduo]

Good news: I just get it through successfully.
I activate this game not in steam's original function, but from the file in the game's install folder, which names "DropDuchy" with an icon.
I'm not sure how long this way work for me, though.

[jafferduo]

Unfortunately, after a few hours, when I turn on my CPU and play it with the same way, it still froze after a few minutes.
I have to force shut down CPU then turn it on, when I log in Steam, Steam got a little update for themselves. Is it really matter? I don't know.
Or maybe I can't reload the game too much when I'm in the middle of the deploy phase? Not sure.