I know this is an old post now, but did you ever find a solution to your priority point number 2 – the game slowing down on faster machines?

I bought the game on steam a couple of years ago and it was slow then and decided to wait for a patch/fix rather than ask for a refund (as I’d been excited about playing it since I saw your youtube trailer many years before).

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find (or sieve through enough of all the comments on the internet to find) if there was ever a solution and I would STILL love to play it.

I’d even be happy to buy it somewhere else if necessary if that made a difference, but I just want to play it, you know? :)

hope this helps

You can restock batteries for free by replaying missions that have battery pickups. I would prefer them to refill between missions, myself.

Then I played it.

Then I completed it.

Then I bought it — because your game is everything a game should be.

The Resolver never reloads between missions. All you get is six bullets.

Batteries have to be rebought. Since you only have a fixed and limited pool of money you can’t afford to experiment and it’s possible, if unlikely, to render the game unwinnable

From what I’ve played, I love it. No issues thus far, and it’s nice to see those messages when you punch a guard too many times finally show up after the patch.

I have NVIDIA graphics card and Intel processor with integrated graphics, and I experienced this problem with Magicka, Super Meat Boy and many others (sorry, I still didn’t bought Gunpoint, it will be first thing to do after my paycheck :) ).

So maybe people can try to explicitly set graphics card for Gunpoint (at least NVIDIA drivers allows that) and see, if that will resolve the problem.

BTW.: Do you plan to share some sales statistics? It would be interesting to see how big success the game is. Thank you.

On a side note, I’ll be one of the first in line to throw money at a possible sequel, if it is ever made.

While there are some glitches now and then, they are all survivable and fine – the real thing I wish to address is the ability to SHARE custom missions. I recommend you look into getting a Steam Workshop for Gunpoint, or at least some other easy method for level-sharing. On top of that, I have encountered people who would like to custom-link in the editor.

Keep the magic going, mate.

The editor and (hopefully in the future) Steam Workshop support should keep this game alive for a good time to come.

Incidentally, shameless plug for thread on level editor feedback;
http://steamcommunity.com/app/206190/discussions/0/864969482157291559/

I’m not sure, but maybe I have an idea about one problem:

2. Looking into a slowdown thing

I had the same problem, when I started Gunpoint with my PC. I could fix this by plugging in my controller and the game ran at normal speed, after I restarted it. Maybe that could help the others out?

The reason why I came up with this solutions are some other games, which are created with Game Marker – if I’m not wrong Gunpoint is created by Game Maker, too, isn’t it? Well, I had the same problem with Hotline Miami, Megaman x Street Fighter and Home, which are all Game Maker-games – if, again, I’m not wrong. It seems there is a generall problem with Game Maker-games.

Hope this had been helpfull.

Try disabling each thing loaded in turn. You may have to write in a temp patch to keep things in-game but it should help you track down the cause. I suspect it it will have something to do with a resource being loaded into the wrong memory address, thus messing things up to the extent not even the de-bugger can assist.

Looking into a slowdown thing
Make sure that in Game maker you have not enabled Vsync.
Global Game settings / resolution.
Uncheck the “Use synchronization to avoid tearing” option.

In general, make sure that you have not checked the option “Treat uninitialized variables as value 0”. Doing so may hide weird programmation problems, which will eventually pop up and be 100% incomprehensible.

It’s wonderful, keep up the hard work.