Topic: Aqua jet running slow on switch 2

As the thread title really.

Aqua Jet seemed great at the beginning but is now running slow, I’ve googled it and can’t find anything but the AI summary at the top says it’s a known issue that Hamster are working on but I can’t find anything other source for this.

Has anyone else for the same issue?

If Hamster are working on it then hopefully the fix will be quick. When games get progressively slow I think its some sort of leak in the code where it keeps taking more and more memory and doesn't release the memory back to the system when it should. It's a common bug in games but usually fairly easy to cure compared to many other bugs. I remember having such a game in the past but for the life of me can't remember which one it was but it was many years ago. It was on the PC and suddenly the hard drive was getting more and more accessed and I thought it was some sort of virus but the PC was using virtual memory i.e. hard drive space to find space for the ever expanding game code. The task manager showed a huge amount of memory used by the game when it eventually appeared. It definitely sounds like the game is running more code than it needs to over time.

Game bugs are pretty common I find especially on PC. I was only playing Fallout 4 yesterday and was attacking enemies outside a vault and suddenly there were two robots when there is normally one. I destroyed one and the other robot disappeared with it despite operating as a separate robot at the time. I was playing the vanilla game too with no mods. Mind you Bethesda don't have the greatest reputation for not having bugs in their games. I feel like I rarely encounter much in the way of bugs with Nintendo games but they are present on all game systems.

Thanks for the reply.

It;’s weird that there’s nothing about it online though - yet the AI must be picking up on it from somewhere.

I’ve messaged them anyway so let’s see what they say.

@norwichred

I searched a bit and found a Japanese post/apology on Twitter/X saying this slowdown of Arcade Archives 2 Aqua Jet on Switch 2 in docked mode is a known issue and they are preparing a patch. Apparently the problem is unique to S2 docked mode - handheld mode and other platforms are not affected.

I’d imagine they will roll out an update soon. Often Hamster fixes these bugs within a week or 2 of the game launch.

Maybe no one’s played it for more than 15 mins to find the glitch other than a couple people. Hamster included.

Ha!

@Teksette Thank you so much for checking mate.

They actually patched it last night and I also got a lovely email response from them this morning, apologising for the bug, thanking me profusely for supporting them, and hoping I would enjoy moving forward.

Can’t argue with the service and your research was really helpful. Thank you.