Game seems to randomly run badly?

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

I played it a few nights back, attempting Disc 1 Arcade Hard, and after about half an hour to an hour, it started stuttering randomly. This might have been related to me turning the screenshake from 5 to 0 and not restarting the game before playing.

Just now, the game froze, and when I went to Task Manager to kill it, it showed me that the game's memory usage had swelled to 10GB. Is this normal?

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

I'm asking because even on the store page, the recommended memory doesn't exceed 4GB. If this is a bug, I hope the developers read this in case it happens to anyone else.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

It happened again just now, randomly ballooned after freezing, went up to 10GB memory usage and kept randomly oscillating between 5GB and 10GB.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Happened a 3rd time just now, it's starting to feel less and less like a random occurrence.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Happened a 4th time, this game is literally unplayable.

[Gabe]

Hey, sorry about that! Did it only start happening once you turned off screenshake? Is it only in one area of the game? You could also try the devbuild beta branch and see if any errors appear. Sorry again!

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Originally posted by Gabe:

Hey, sorry about that! Did it only start happening once you turned off screenshake? Is it only in one area of the game? You could also try the devbuild beta branch and see if any errors appear. Sorry again!

I only tried the 4 variations of Album One so far (regular, arcade, hard, and hard arcade), and I think the screenshake toggling only affected the frame-stuttering for that session, not any of the freezing.

After enough occurrences, I think the freezing stopped once I toggled Laptop Mode on. I'll try the devbuild beta, thank you for the recommendation.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

I tried the beta, and it incidentally froze even faster than usual (I don't think it's significant though as the length of time the program runs until freezing seems to be random anyway, anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour, maybe more). I can't say that helped.

(This last one just stings as I was doing well in a Perfect Arcade run (and I'm assuming Perfect unlocks on Arcade) and hadn't yet failed lol)

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Originally posted by Gabe:

Is it only in one area of the game?

Okay, I just noticed it mostly freezes during the alarm levels in Disc One. I remember it froze quite a few times there on the regular build of the game, but I assumed it was just because I was getting better and not dying/freezing in the earlier levels.

Since playing on the beta branch, my game's frozen a total of 2 times and both times were on the red levels in Disc One.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Okay, stuttering seems to also be random and not caused by changes to the game's settings. I got stuttering during an arcade run where the framerate dropped as low as 10FPS, but annoyingly the timer continued in real-time instead of slow-motion, so I had to have the ape sluggishly limber towards the exit with 5 seconds to spare.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Tried running it again yesterday, it sucks that the real difficulty in this game is STILL the crashing and subsequent gobbling of RAM before finally closing.

[1MantisPhoenix]

Game is broken. I load into level 4 false alarm, my ape doesn't move. claims to be 300fps;
It's crashed,but still playing sounds. Feet on the floor.
Restarting level doesn't help
Menu is fully interfaceable.

My review also cannot be saved on this web page:
WARNING:
It's such a good game, but refused to work on Windows 10 - GTX1070 16GB RAM _ Worked once. Played 20 minutes. Then it loaded into the game. Not a continue option. Just play: and the Ape in the cage does his first Frames - and then , it no longer runs

DEFINITELY:"Looked for fixes.
Looked in the install directory for VCREDIST, etc. in case i was missing something.

I had to refund. It was sad at the same time because it was epic.
Tried restarting. Tried closing steam, force closing game, closing normally. Menu still worked. But Ape in the cage would not move at all.

Searched Community forum for the fix on this issue,. and none.

WIndows 10- legitimate- Up to date to the max. -> Avoid this.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Really pissed that the game doesn't run well. It's been like a month and I don't recall any game file updates even coming. I've been on the devbuild branch this entire time! When can we expect fixes? There is no excuse for it to run as badly as it does.

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Really starting to piss me off, was ALMOST at the end of Disc 2 on Arcade Hard and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game closed itself AGAIN! I was so close to unlocking the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ achievement and you morons couldn't even make the game not crash, why even bother

[(kl0n) ᗜˬᗜ 👍]

Just had the game crash FOUR times in a row in the span of half an hour, I was just running Fugue Hard deathless for the banana and it kept messing up my run! Where is the bugfix patch?

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by <Kl0nd1kE>:

Just had the game crash FOUR times in a row in the span of half an hour, I was just running Fugue Hard deathless for the banana and it kept messing up my run! Where is the bugfix patch?

They clearly don't care about this game. It was one of the saddest refunds I've had to do.