Game randomly slows down.

[OwlmusPrime]

When I try to do something whether it would be jump, slash or whatever sometimes the game freezes for a second then lets me use the move

[OwlmusPrime]

It freezes in mid gameplay

[THE DEATH]

For me too, but i found if run steam in big mode, game run better.

[OwlmusPrime]

still freezes for me randomly when i play and steam is like that too whenever i input text

[barbrady123]

I get this too...but I usually run like 50 other things at once, so I just assumed something else was hitting my system every so often causing the lag...but yea my game freezes for about 1/2 a second i would say once every 5 minutes or so.

[Nantes]

This freaking freeze got me killed when I was very advanced in the run! The worst part is that the enemies still move and act during the freeze, so when I got out of the freeze I was already dead, having been ganked by several enemies. #$%!@*

Horrible problem! I have a GTX 970, core i7 3770k and 16 GB of RAM, this is definitely not a hardware performance issue.

[1MantisPhoenix]

GT640 i5 3210 - 8GB ram - and other PC,
GTX1070 i7 6700 16GB ram - also does this ^^
it's intermittent,

[ZStoner]

I've been seeing this at least since the OtherMine update, maybe earlier. It's only gotten worse with the Golden Core update.
Like Nantes said, when it freezes, only YOU freeze. Everything else keeps moving. Like during Mortar's moving lasers.
I'd estimate the worst freeze I experienced was maybe up to a half-second! Which in this game, means a really long time.

This really needs to be looked at.

Yup. I've had a number of needless deaths because of it, and dozens of botched rooms where I'd come in with lots of health, only to lose with half of it because the controller decided LAG Freeze at the worst possible time and PWN3s me. :(

I don't think I've seen it in a room that's been empty...
(or maybe I wouldn't pay attention to a room that has no dangers) :)

Bonus note: I hardly have this issue on ANY other game... Steam or otherwise, and I have a crappy graphics card.

[1MantisPhoenix]

Gt640 plays the same as a gtx 1070. I noticed super lag when I quit the game and came back to resume a session too. First time that it was continuous. Inherent. Then, i died. And started anew, and no log again. So it's as curses. And items, accumulate.
Also replace where curses line up due to not being able to see gold on the top walls of stages if more than 9 curses etc.

[Thorium]

We're currently focused on performance improvements. Thanks for all your messages, they help us figure out specific issues.

[Nantes]

Originally posted by Thorium:

We're currently focused on performance improvements. Thanks for all your messages, they help us figure out specific issues.

My half-second freeze with subsequent instant death was at the last stage of that battle where you speak to the mage and knight door-guards, the room shakes, and the two become your allies in the ensuing fight with the surprise enemies. I had just damaged a couple of the spawner-holes with a transmutagen bomb, which I think also set off a special rock nearby that spits out damaging crystal shards when you blow it up, and maybe the combination of all those effects with the amount of enemies is what caused the problem. Maybe.

[niet3sche77]

Me too. SSD, i7, 16GB RAM, EVGA 1070 FTW card with 8GB VRAM... this game should _not_ be freezing and stuttering. When it happens is random. It’s not tied to temperature and shouldn’t be tied to I/O.

I’ll also cross-post in BUGS, but I see the dev has come into this thread.

I love the game. Help me play it without it crapping the bed!

[1MantisPhoenix]

I will right now attempt no fullscreen optimization FRom WIN10
look in a 38 minute run, it's maybe all enemies firing at me at once, AND I jump, in that calculation of vectors, and trajectories, it must confuse the engine.
With all my relics and curses. This is the closest thing to real life lag, etc.

[1MantisPhoenix]

1000% Fullscreen optimization did NOT Work, Felt like it happened more, as game is designed this way. so aka it's functioning as designed.
Fix: Turned screen shake OFF under 'Game' Options. no lag 'yet'
will update.
{streamed live on youtube : evidence}

[Ray]

Can confirm that turning screen shake off solved the issue.
This seems to be a Windows problem though, on Linux I can play without any issues even with screen shake turned on.

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by Grumic:

Can confirm that turning screen shake off solved the issue.
This seems to be a Windows problem though, on Linux I can play without any issues even with screen shake turned on.

Still happens randomly. But far less in comparison. Win10