@Relyss, do you, perchance, have an AMD cpu?
Nope. Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family.
Integrated graphics card (itās a laptop).
Drat. Hoping this was AMD-onlyā¦
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Ok, so after the Vista fix, but not before? Thatās helpful, thanks! 
Edit: Paging @Albert in case anything occurs to him.
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Alpha 7 they became apparent.
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What are you running the program on? Apparently it seems like it is just Windows 8.1 and Vista so farā¦ Iāll try to run Stonehearth on my Windows 7 build and see what happens.
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Ah you dont have to do that
I have reported the problem on Windows 7
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Iām having this problem too on an NVIDIA GeForce card, the game stutters but the camera still pans and moves smoothly. I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M and can play games like ARMA 3 and Rome 2 maxed out with no lag. The stutters are really annoying, especially since I only get about 5 minutes to play the game until it crashes anyway :S
If the camera can still be panned during the stutter, then itās a freezing bug that was reported a long time ago (Iām doing research).
Edit: Ok, I found a video from end of November that shows a complete freezing of the game (except the camera, and it wasnāt due to pathfinding). Here itās mentioned some possible causes for this kind of situations.
On the other hand, thereās this report here which was merged to a memory leak bug, but itās slightly similar to our stutter.
This quote is a proof of my guesses (when the Vista bug was resolved):
The fact that some people experience the stutter when moving the camera, makes me think that the cursor didnāt detect a valid panning surface, but people who can move the camera while the game is freezed make me think weāre talking about different bugs.
In conclusion, I think this needs further investigation, so we should try reproducing and recording this new stutter of Alpha 7.
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Feedback:
After playing again, I can say in my case the stutter is that I try to move the camera and everything is freezed / the camera doesnāt respond; after some seconds the camera responds to my previous action and the hearthlings can move again.
Iāve experienced it when farming a large field+mining, when itās bed time, when itās lunch time, and at the change from night to day (but thatās probably a different bug), usually when trying to move the camera.
I donāt get them right at the start of the game, nor every time I move the camera, so perhaps itās a kind of lag when there are several things going on at the same time. I think the bar was mostly green and partially blue during the stutters.
Hope this helps (looks like itās not that easy to reproduce)ā¦
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I get it only when Iām building
Some things Iāve noticed.
- The map stutters when moving my mouse across it, like maybe skips 4-5 tiles.
- Loading screens are relatively faster? Iām not complaining just pointing out things I noticed.
- Before placing the settlers flag the game runs fine. No FPS drop or anything.
- As soon as I put down the settlers flag the stuttering happens.
- Turned everything down to the minimum settings as low as they can go and still see the stuttering.
I still canāt find the cause, but maybe someone can, just trying to help replicate the problem.
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We (which is to say, the stunningly brilliant @not_owen_wilson) is looking into this now. Thanks everyone for all your repro tips!
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This is how you can see how good the game is. Not by simply playing it. How fast the makers work on trying to get rid of the bug 
Thank you!
And Merry Christmas!
Weāve isolated the problem, and a fix is in, but didnāt make the latest unstable push. The next push will have it (unless something terrible happens!) Long story short: the new version of Chromium we use to render the UI doesnāt update in the same way as the previous one. When we tell it, āhey, you have new data, re-draw yourself!ā, the old one would be like, āOkay, Iāll do that while youāre doing other stuff.ā, which was great. The new one is, like, āOkay, Iāll do that right now, and you can just sit there and waitā. The fix was to get it to behave like the old one.
Iām really sorry this didnāt make it in for our pre-Christmas push, but hopefully in just a few days, youāll finally be free of stuttering. Until then, have a happy holiday!
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