— I know that this will probably lead to nothing but could you tell me your current C2 theme selected in the preferences?

It is the default theme. Everything in my current installation is set to default except "Preview Server" which is set to my local ip adress: 192.168.0.5 with port numer "50000". I got my laptop back from repairs yesterday, it is even worse than when I sent it away. With that being said, I guess we need to wait a couple of more weeks before I can troubleshoot the issue further. Currently I'm just so happy that Construct 2 works the way it is intended.

Hi Ashley, Sorry for not following the guidelines, but I actually see no purpose of attaching a .capx file as it would not improve the problem description.

Did you mean r221 or really the old version of C2?

hahaha, sorry, I meant version 221. I unfortunately mixed up the digits and didn't double check it before I posted. I was hoping that the new version had something to do with the improvement and not the reinstallation of windows.

I will pick up my laptop from repairs today, If the problem still exist on that computer and they haven't formatted the drive it will be much easier to troubleshoot for me. I will post my findings here

Hi guys!

I just made a new observation. Ever since I reinstalled Windows 10 Pro on my desktop computer (core i5 4670K, 16GB RAM, GTX960), as well as Construct 2 being auto-updated to version 212 (Edit: 221). I haven't had any issues with sluggishness. I even have auto-save activated nowadays. I would like to test this on my laptop as well, but unfortunately it is still away on repairs.

I will get back to you all. Anybody else feel improvement in version 212 (Edit: 221)?

Problem Description

Duplicating a layout does not transfer layout settings.

Steps to Reproduce Bug

• Add a layout
• Click on "Layer 0". Set "Parallax in Editor"-value to "Yes"
• Duplicate Layout.

Observed Result

The duplicated layout does not have "Prallax in Editor"-value set to Yes on "Layer 0"

Expected Result

I would expect layout settings to be transferred during duplication of layout.

Operating System and Service Pack

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

Construct 2 Version ID

Release 221, 64-bit

Background

I tend to use 10+ parallax layers with individual values in every layout and prefer to view these as parallax values in editor. this is quite ineffective during the level design phase. It's not a "must have"-feature, but it would most definitely make the work process easier.

Did you have a look at the positioned audio example shipped with Construct2?

Hahahaha, oh man, now I feel ashamed.

Hi Everybody!

I would like to make positional environmental sounds that change volume and balance (L/R) depending on how far you are from the sound source. I have looked at the "Play at position" action. But I actually don't quite get what the different variables does, even though I have been looking in the forums as well as the manual.

I am currently creating a cave with waterfalls (Here's an old video sample of the environment:

). It would be lovely if I could make the waterfall sound faded-in once I get closer to the location of the waterfall as well as stereo position the sound.

Is there a built in function in Construct 2 in order to achieve this? Perhaps even a good audio-plugin? or do you have any advice of how to get started? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile"> All help is warmly welcome. Keep in mind that I am no guru at Construct 2, I only know the basics. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

— nice to hear you solved the problem you had... but still continues after 1 day now? it might not bee steam or C2 ... but your hard drive ... is it almost full? what settings you have for caching things? how much space you have in the C2 auto save folder? is it OLD or new ? is it HDD or SSD?

I have a core i5 4670K clocked at 4Ghz with 16GB of DDR3 1866MHz memory, Geforce GTX960 and a Corsair Force LS 240GB SSD. and my other computer is a laptop, quad core AMD A4-5000 APU clocked at 1.5Ghz with built in Radeon 8330 graphics, 16GB of DDR3 1600MHz memory and an unknown 256GB SSD drive. The problem acts out in similar fashion for me. Both computers have 60+ GB free storage.

I simply press Alt + Tab to switch window and then Alt + Tab again to return to Construct 2. This solves the problem instantly for me. I used Construct 2 all day long and could bypass the issue just doing that, but it only happened 2 or 3 times.

I actually was never able to bypass the freezes with alt+tab. Well sometimes Construct semi-freezes for me, but just for a short while, in those cases, alt+tab has worked for me, but once it reeeeeeaaaaally freezes, there's no way to recover responsiveness in the application, the only thing I can do is try to make construct save the changes by pressing the save icon constantly and then try to close the application or force it to close. However, The "disable auto-save workaround" has worked for me.

Nowadays Construct isn't that much of a hassle, especially since I have adopted this workaround.

Enjoy your new "Steam software", I have one more idea that came into my mind today about the sluggishness.

Do you guys have "Mobile Previewing" enabled? (This thing)

Yes and no, on my desktop computer (i5) I preview my creations on a tablet and a phone, while my laptop, which actually have more or less mobile-chip webGL performance I have it set to localhost. that doesn't seem to do any difference to the issue I'm have been having.

Wow, that's amazing c13303! I never knew. Thank you for showing this! it's nice to have a solution in the thread as well. I will keep that in mind once I start animating for real, first off I want to create the world, then the characters-/monster- and asset animations, finally I'll try to glue everything together in the engine.

I only work with the game development part-time, leaving me with a development period of 4+ years. Who knows if there's a C3 coming out until then? I wan't the majority of assets to be ready before I start with the engine for real, re-evaluating what my options are.

Thank you so much for your kind words. Your artwork looks amazing as well, It brings back memories to "Another World" and "Flashback" from the early 90's Keep up the good work!

Thank you for your response ASHLEY. I fully understand the way you're reasoning, without being able to reproduce the bug it's nearly impossible to find the cause. The good thing about this thread is that we have actually found a workaround. With the auto-save turned off I can work for a whole day straight feeling confident that Construct won't freeze. With auto-save turned on however I need to restart or force the application to shut once every 20 minutes. The strange thing that it doesn't matter which platform I use, the bug is always the same (even though my desktop computer cope with the slowdown a bit better).

The Steam Overlay doesn't do anything in my experience, but I have disabled it as it is utterly useless in construct. I'm actually quite happy with the workaround, I can actually live with that. But I'm thinking about asking for a refund just to catch the attention of Steam support, and shed some light on the issue. It has been reported before, and we're a couple of people experiencing it (god knows how many, I waited almost a year before I reported)

Thank you — for pointing me in the right direction for a good workaround, as well as being committed in this thread.

I haven't actually worked with spriter that much or Construct for that matter. An easy solution would be to look at the spriters timeline which is measured in miliseconds. You should be able to solve it with something similar to

+ (Sprite-Object)Character > Animation Set to "Walk" >> (System-object)Wait 0.X seconds

> (Audio-object) Play "walkingsound.obb"

I haven't tried it, but perhaps the system object with function "wait" will point you in the right direction?

G3nki, could you test what TheRealDannyyy said about Steam Overlay affecting autosave, and post here?

I deactivated the overlay for the application and it doesn't help with the autosave feature turned on. The application still freezes after about 18 minutes of use (independent of workload). Sorry for being a bit harsh on the Steam version, like TheRealDannyyy mentioned, the issue with playing games while construct is running is actually solved now. (I didn't know)

Auto-updates are nice, even though I have turned them off, because first I wan't to make sure that the installed plugins works with the new version.