I started playing The Longing a couple days ago (meaning I have the most recent version) and, despite the status of this topic, this issue wasn't solved. I detected the stutter happens every 2 minutes, which is frequent enough to bother. Isn't it possible to write to the save files without freezing the game, like running a separate thread or having an in-memory copy of the data so it doesn't need to freeze when it saves (supposing it freezes so nothing changes until the saving is complete)? Or maybe give us the option to change the autosave interval so it gets less frequent (this one seems very easy to implement)? If you're thinking about using the latter, can you please give the option to save at least up to every 30 minutes?
Post edited April 20, 2022 by hangalho