Perma Time Freeze on Standard time

[Xel'Naga]

Is this normal?
I already played the first 2 scenarios of this game. For some reason, after a certain amount of time, like when I load my game the next day, time has frozen on standard time. Fortunately, time moves at high speed. I think the high speed part is the more important one, but sometimes, I do love to watch those small sims moving around in the building at standard time speed.

So, is this a normal thing, or did I find a bug?

[Xel'Naga]

By TIme Freeze, I mean the clock is not moving and the people are not moving around stuff.... as though the game is paused, except that those maintenance guys fising the rooms are stuck in the rooms their fixing but you can see them hammering the walls, but that's it...

[SomaSim]

But no crash - just people stop moving?

[Xel'Naga]

yeah, no crash... most probably, all movement that is dependent on time is frozen. The clock has stopped moving only on standard speed. But then the clock and the simpeople moves if you you put it on high speed, which is agood thing coz I use that mode more often.

[SheepMaiden]

This is happening to me too... only on standard game speed :(

[Xel'Naga]

hi devs! its been quite some time... I own a bunch of games on steam now and I revisitted PH just this week, played through the scenarios to refresh myself on game mechanics and now find myself in the same situation again. all animations stop, even the clock on standard speed.
im still using UI at 80%. I also tried loading an older version of the scenario im curently playing and standard time works just fine so I'm thinking something has caused this while I was asleep. I'm off to work now and try to give more details if I can when I get home. Thanks! Still love this game!

[SomaSim]

Ok. Do you have any mods loaded?

[Xel'Naga]

wow dev, that was extremely fast... yes I loaded an escalator mod but it doesn't appear in the scenario. If you can leave me a list of some tweaks to do, i'll get on it when I get home. gotta run to work now. I'm glad that after 2 years, Devs are still replying to players in this game

[SomaSim]

Just wondering if you disable the mods in Steam and then reload if that does anything?

[Die Hand Gottes]

Have the same problem in normal speed the people e.g. in front of the elevator Hanging also the maintenance workers no longer run off that is definitely not correct

And no no mods installed yet

Addendum:
The game has as it looks problems with multiple CPU cores
if I limit the game to the first core and the 1 hyperthread core so only the two first cores use the game also works in normal mode as there the game has a bug.

here in the attachment times my system the limitation of the cores I have made with process lasso
https://valid.x86.fr/034l95

With only two cores also runs the clock further in normal mode but is not a solution the game starts to jerk there

[Die Hand Gottes]

With only two CPU threads running the game the whole thing goes only briefly that the time remains after a short time but again standing I hope urgent on a patch

[Die Hand Gottes]

This is probably not interested in any of them
The money they have already received unfortunately I can not return it too late noticed
a bugfix would be nice see but no hope it is here not even a comment submitted
Well tick off company avoid POINT

[thedahlingdarling]

I'm having this issue as well exactly as described and no mods loaded

[axios2006]

Originally posted by thedahlingdarling:

I'm having this issue as well exactly as described and no mods loaded

Hi, pc specs? Save file edited?

[Die Hand Gottes]

No have edited no memory file
would not know how to do that anyway
I have already linked my PC data above
and I still have this PC
https://valid.x86.fr/kkysw9
so I get this not at all to run no matter how many cores I use the normal mode stops the time
and as I said with this computer
https://valid.x86.fr/j3ckr8 (one more NVMe added)
which is also my game PC runs the speil only with two cores but also not properly remains after noer weile also the time stops again.

And I'm glad that someone shows interest in our problem.

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[axios2006]

Please wait a Devs' reply.

Anyway, it's a small indie studio and now they are focused on their new game, City of Gangsters, so it would be take some time.