0.19.7.5 - Changes to Address Freezing on Windows — Idle Armada Steam update #340561

I finally found a way to reproduce the freezing behavior that many users are seeing on windows. It turns out the key is to run it with steam overlay. I...

Steam App
Idle Armada (1408060)
Event type
patch note
Published
13 January 2025 - 00:26:45 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
I finally found a way to reproduce the freezing behavior that many users are seeing on windows. It turns out the key is to run it with steam overlay. I understand it's some interaction between ebiten engine, steam overlay, and the go garbage collector. If I disable the go garbage collector, it doesn't happen at all. I don't deeply understand the issue yet, but with that new understanding I've been able to apply some tweaks that dramatically reduce the frequency of the hangs, while I investigate how to get the root cause fixed. Steam Windows Version: Applied a workaround for the hangs/freezing that some users have been seeing. It doesn't solve the root cause yet, because the root cause is outside of Idle Armada, but it applies settings that dramatically reduce the rate of these issues, at the cost of running the GC much less often (which makes Idle Armada use more RAM). If you don't care ...

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