Reproduction Steps
This freeze happens in many games (it seems to be more common in games with blooming Neon parts), but the easiest and most consistent reproduction method is:
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Play Arcade Island X: Arcade Island X: Working Arcade 🌴 - Roblox
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Walk straight to the arcade, and keep going. You should pass the two glass double doors and the large brick doorway with the “Donators”, “Likes”, and “Subs” signs.
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Just past the large brick doorway (It’s very close, only a couple steps away), you should notice a “Super Spin” arcade machine with a large colored wheel. It has a big red button on the bottom.
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On the left of the “Super Spin” machine is a blue wheel machine called “Pirate Wheel”. Walk up in front of the “Pirate Wheel”, face the machine, zoom out all the way, then slowly move your camera up to look straight down at your character. My computer freezes during this step and stops responding.
System: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019), running MacOS Monterey v12.3.1
Processor: 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
Memory: 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Graphics: Two graphics cards: Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB, Radeon Pro Vega 16
Expected Behavior
I expect gameplay to continue as normal, without freezing.
Actual Behavior
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During Step 4 when I slowly move my camera up to look straight down at my character, my computer freezes and I cannot move my mouse or switch to another app.
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After less than 5 seconds, it will try to render the next frame. My cursor then changes to a busy/loading icon (rainbow pinwheel on MacOS).
There are two possibilities that will happen next:
- After about 10 seconds, the game begins stuttering between the previously rendered frames within the seconds before the freeze. At this point, the game is unrecoverable.
Now, I am able to switch to another app. If I switch back, the stuttering is accompanied by screen flickering (sometimes black or red.)
In this case, Performance Stats does not reveal any abnormalities (since it has freezed before it can render any new data.)
- The game will recover after a couple of seconds and become playable again.
This is more likely to happen if I try to turn the camera elsewhere to not look at the part that caused the freeze. (The freeze will happen again if I turn my camera back.)
In this case, Performance Stats reveals a huge spike in CPU and drop in most stats at the moment of the freeze:
Workaround
I can still try to play the games if I try to avoid looking at the problematic parts (e.g. looking at the ground or the sky), which makes freezing less likely.
Issue Area: Engine
Issue Type: Freezing
Impact: High
Frequency: Often
Date Last Experienced: 2022-06-21 00:06:00 (-07:00)
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