[2020] Stress Test 4 - Bug thread

Please report if this happens again after reading this message. We pushed a tentative fix for this to the servers 20 minutes ago, though the bug had more to do with picking weapons than swapping to them. Could it be that's what you both experienced, were you actually getting the weapons in the weapons list? Thanks!

When you say that the screen gets frozen and yet you "can still play", I'm going to assume that you mean that the visuals become static, nothing changes, but you still hear sounds as if the game is still going on.

Your settings folder is C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Diabotical (You can there by going to %appdata%/Diabotical in Windows explorer or in Windows+Run)

After closing the game, rename "settings.txt" in that folder to "backup-settings.txt" to reset your settings without losing them.

If that fixes it, send us the offending "backup-settings.txt" for analysis. You can send me this on Discord or you can put the context in a pastebin and DM me the link on Reddit.

If that doesn't fix it and you have the Nvidia overlay enabled, try disabling it.

If that still doesn't fix it:

• Can you tell me if you are on a laptop?

• Can you tell me if you on a setup where you are using multiple graphics cards simultaneously?

• Can you tell me what's your "power plan" setting in Windows? (Power and sleep settings -> Advanced power settings)

• If you are not in the "High performance" plan, does setting it to that help you with your issue?

• Do you reckon unreliable power could be a factor in your setup? E.g: do you think that it's possible that maybe your power supply is a bit too under-powered for your cpu or gpu?

Ah, sorry, actually I meant "report" in the general sense, as in just saying so on this thread for example. We don't have a bug report form in game yet.

Ah good to know, thanks for confirming. Unfortunately Diabotical may be more likely than other games to expose issues like this as it leans very heavily on the GPU and tries to keep CPU usage lightweight (1,2). This is desired for stability/smoothness because, to oversimplify, GPU workloads are more predictable (less variability between frames). It has the inconvenient that cards get a bit hot and people freak out a little.

(1) This is not to say that our current GPU power usage is entirely justified in relation to the frame-rates we are achieving, this can and will be improved over time, and things won't have to get quite so hot to get the same FPS.

(2) This is also not to say that we have been completely successful in making CPU usage super light either, we are getting there.

Could you DM me on Discord?

Yeah, and even before that it's also something that I've used myself and had the issue with, but there have been other priorities so we haven't gotten to it yet

Please go to Settings-Weapons and then on the bottom right of that menu next to the edit crosshair button click Mask and select "None" in the dropdown

Alright. Thanks for the update.

I'll ask you for some information in a private message

Do you have Windows running on test mode? If so can you restart without test mode being enabled https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2509241/how-to-disable-the-test-mode-message-that-is-displayed-in-windows