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New Screen Refresh Rate
Since it was updated (I think a few months ago now) the new screen refresh rate makes game play harsh on the eyes. It gives a bit of a constant strobe light effect - what I like to call seizurific... I haven't played much in a while, but keep checking back in - hoping it was temporary- seeing as how it hasn't changed I thought it was time to say something. I used to really enjoy playing - hopefully you can find a way to return game play to the smooth transitions it used to have when you walk.
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We changed the framerate one time about 1.5 years ago -- we moved it from 24 to 30fps -- which makes things smoother, not strobe-ier. There have not been any substantial changes to that since, and I'm personally unaware of any similar complaints.
If you are able to make a video of the problem with another device, like a phone, I'd be interested to see what you are seeing. - FWIW, with the latest Flash plug-in update, I'm finding game play much smoother. OP, you have my sympathies.
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This changed around the last housing update. I can try to video it.
And I thought that the point of BETA was to mention issues not give "sympathies" every time something is mentioned. I keep seeing people post "oh the staff works so hard" etc... I'm sure they do but they asked to have issues reported... - Maybe this helps... It's not the characters, they move smoothly. It's something in the background almost like the frames "jump." We've noticed it on 3 computers and have high speed internet.
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Not trying to be critical but could you reshoot those with the ceiling fan off? I watched both of them and it was hard to make out any other flickering.
If you google "video screen capture Windows 7" there's a few good programs that come up that might be better than a cell phone. Not sure how it works and may have to try it out this weekend but it looks like Win7 has one built in .... -
Actually capturing with the computer will most likely cause the problem to go away.
Unfortunately I'm also not able to really see what is flickering; I might have seen some lighting changes but it looked more like the camera adjusting exposure.
If you are simply seeing frames skip occasionally, that is a normal part of gaming. We're working on improving it, but it's a factor of how powerful your computer is -- occasionally it doesn't have time to render a few frames of animation in order to keep up with everything else being asked of it. - I sometimes notice 'screen tearing' with the background when moving, sorta like when you play a computer game with VSync off with more than 60 fps framerate. But, in glitch, it happens more when the FPS is struggling.