Very, VERY Confusing and Sudden bug

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Hello so, I don’t post on Dev Forum much unless I really need to, so

I was just in a team create with another dev, everything was fine, playtesting in studio worked great.. until when i play tested one more time, everything suddenly just doesn’t work, AT ALL

From what I could see, all connections suddenly just refuses to work, the script is running, I did a test by putting a print(“hello”) on the start.. and a print(“hi”) on a renderstepped connection, and it just.. doesn’t print on the renderstepped, at all, no errors, nothing.

The code that i tested, is straight up just

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
print("hi")
end)

And is, for some reason, not working

Again, the script IS running, it’s just the connections suddenly doesn’t work at all mid editing, and no it’s not a local bug, it happened to the other dev in team create too

I’ve tried changing SignalBehavior but, to no avail

I’m really stuck here, I’m almost certain this is a very sudden or a rare bug of Roblox Studio.. as it has never happened to me in my years of Roblox Studio, this is the first time

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As far as i remember renderstepped(render is processing only on client bcause server dont need to render anything) works only on client. If script is server side use heartbeat or something like this.

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The script is a local script, as i mentioned, it worked before so it is obviously a local script ..

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game["Run Service"].RenderStepped:Connect(function() print("hi") end)

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doesnt renderstepped happen like every 1/200th of a second or something crazy like that

it probably overloaded something internally lol

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Can you provide the full code snippet, remove any sensitive parts but everything helps debugging.
Does it work inside of the roblox client itself? studio has a few more issues cause its a bit different from what I know.

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you must have something causing this to not run. do you have an if statement before this code, or some sort of loop?

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I doubt it’s my code, I’ve placed a print() statement one line above and outside the renderstepped, it printed, and then emptied the renderstepped and placed another print statement inside that renderstepped, nothing happens.. and no I didn’t disconnect any of the connections with scripts

So if this doesn’t confirm that somehow renderstepped/connections just refuses to work no matter what’s inside, I don’t know what to do

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There’s zero loops besides renderstepped, if I did want to make a while true do or for loop, my muscle memory will put it inside a coroutine wrap, so it’s not it

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Not possible since I’m running the playtest at 60 FPS, and in the whole game is only two renderstepped running

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game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    print("hi")
end)

I really don’t like that way myself.

local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
rs.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    print("hi")
end)

Way better in my opinion. Unless I can find a way to avoid do this at all.

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yea that’s how I do it in my main code, in the testing code I just did game:GetService(), but overall it shouldn’t matter as both showed the same result

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You could try a few other methods to try and narrow it down.

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

function onRenderStepped()
	print("Connected")
end
function onBindedStep()
	print("Binded")
end

-- Basic connection
print("Connecting RenderStepped")
local connection = runService.RenderStepped:Connect(onRenderStepped)

-- Another way of triggering a function just to see what happens
print("Binding RenderStep")
runService:BindToRenderStep("BindedStep", Enum.RenderPriority.First.Value, onBindedStep)

-- If this loop stops printing, theres an issue with the script running
while runService.RenderStepped:Wait() do
	-- If this ever prints false, the connection was unexpectedly closed
	print("Connected?", connection.Connected)
end
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Have you tried restarting Roblox Studio or reinstalling it? If it doesn’nt work, I suggest creating another save file and another save instance.