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GD swarm freezes constantly during gameplay for me

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dodo777
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Hi,


I do love this game, but it freezes constantly on my 16gb 3g iphone (latest os 3.1?). 3 different ways it freezes.


1:This is what happens, even before the first wave as you are creating towers the game will suddenly sieze and your tower boundary (the green circle that appears under your finger as you drag a tower out) will freeze on the screen.  The timer will reset and everythign will be frozen ie. can't build towers until the next wave starts.


2:During a wave sometimes the entire screen fills with random particles, rest of creeps disappear and ui becomes unresponsive, after that everything is in slow motion for about 10 seconds with pixels floating around the screen, then the missing creeps reassemble vectoring in from all different sides of the screen - also after it recovers laser turrets will  just spin in circles and not fire cause many messed up rounds as creeps get through.


3:Not really a third way, but an indicator that the above two are about to happen - the background hex grid will flash bright for a second.  That's the sign that it's about to go off.


As far as frequency,  I can have this problem as often as every other wave or several waves in row.  Sometimes it's less frequent however.


Please help!

nsxdavid
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Freezing Issue

This is a mystery... since I cannot recreate it.  However, I recently found out that time can run backwards. That is to say, the clock on the phone can skip backwards when it time syncs to the cell tower.  Backwards running time might just cause everything to go haywire.  And I think this happens more often (mabye even often) when you are moving through lots of towers, like if you are playing on a subway ride or something.  Where you are cutting in and out of reception and switching towers.

Since I code and debug in a stationary situation, I never see this.  Nor do I see it even in car (though I seldom play it in a car since I'm usually the one driving).

But, if this is the problem, I have a fix already in for it and it'll be part of the update I'm wrapping up today to put in Apple's review process.

-- David

dodo777
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Hi,  thanks for your reply -

Hi,  thanks for your reply - I'm playing generally in my house, not moving at all.  I should try in airplane mode though to test.  Part of the mid-wave freezing I forgot to mention is a massive particle explosion of lines and dots that appear to cover the entire screen.  Also, if you are in the midst of an upgrade - during the slowdown you will see the blue upgrade progress bar slowly draw across the entrie screen from the left edge until in gets back into it's proper display space.

dodo777
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Ok, running in airplane mode

Ok, running in airplane mode makes it run fine with no freezing at all - I hope that helps you nail it down.  It's been the first proper go at it that I've had!

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Airplane Mode

Since you have lots of freezing, would you be willing to beta test what I think is the fix?  If so, email through the contact page with your UDID and I'll set you up.

-- David

 

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Hey, what's with the big

Hey, what's with the big error on this site? I found it on Google and seems to be what I'm looking for, but when I landed here i just have a huge mysql error and only some things work. I cannot read the post.

 

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Big red stuff

Fixed it. Some table had gone bad... on Thanksgiving no less! So took awhile to fix it.

stark1128
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teed off

i just signed up so i could post here...

seriously can I get some support for GDS?!?
It hasn't worked on my iPhone in months despite my attempts of installing it several times. Sometimes I have no sound, other times it just crashes while others it doesn't save upon quitting.

how about an update/fix or something!?!

nsxdavid
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Well...

What is your device and OS exactly?

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