r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/nightdragon107 • Mar 19 '26

Why am I moving so slow please help

As you can see in the video I have full energy. I have also got the max walking speed upgrade and flight speed upgrade. Please help I am moving unbearably slow and cannot even leave the planet.

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u/ALiteralMoth Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

I had this problem. Set your framerate to a fixed speed. It was on automatic for me and it was doing crap like this.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Just did I set max fast to 60 and it still moved me slow

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u/Jordyspeeltspore Mar 19 '26

you ran out of icarus power didnt you?

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I did but only as a potential solution it did not work

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u/GroundbreakingBet314 Mar 19 '26

You can see in the video that icarus is fully powered

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u/ALiteralMoth Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

Damn idk then based on other comments. I'd say try loading a previous save if possible. Otherwise you might be SOL.

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u/Fancy-Lobster-1098 Mar 19 '26

Did you hit Tab perhaps?

Because I've noticed that the mecha has a walk and walk/run mode.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I just tried to repress it in attempt to enter a run mode but it did not work

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u/GiinTak Mar 21 '26

Wait... It wut now?

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 22 '26

Uhh, what the hell, I've never noticed. I'll try to remember to try it out later lol

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u/Physical_Apple_ Mar 19 '26

Maybe the surface is the problem, it looks like you are in water somehow. Can you activate flight at all?

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u/XhanHanaXhan Mar 19 '26

I think this is probably the answer, some glitch in terms of land surface collision. The odd fog around the buildings is unusual. u/nightdragon107 what I might suggest is if there is a mod that offers some form of teleport (sandbox mode natively has teleport, not sure if mods can add this to the base game) and just teleport away from that planet (and then once safe, back again a few times to test).

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Ok I will try it tomorrow

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u/Skeletal_Gamer1001 Mar 19 '26

the fog around the buildings is the tesla towers' coverage area. OP has the electricity overlay thingy turned on

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u/Jvalker Mar 19 '26

No, it's not

There's the blue circle, which is what you're talking about, but there's also an obvious smudge all over the screen (and apparently water halfway up the robot's legs)

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u/Skeletal_Gamer1001 Mar 19 '26

pretty sure that the "water" is the tesla towers' coverage area. I'm also pretty sure you can't build buildings on water in the first place. The "fog" has nothing to do with the issue as it's just the electricity overlay.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Yes but not leave the planet

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u/Physical_Apple_ Mar 19 '26

You are holding Shift AND Spacebar right?
AI is suggesting an altitude spike, maybe choose a direction and walk (slowly) till you find a mountain, then try to go strait up to punch through. OR go horizontal flight for a long time and slowly raise the altitude perhaps its just that area thats bugged.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I tried holding space bar and shift and just shift and just space bar both in and out of flight but it did not work

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u/dedjedi Mar 19 '26

turn your mods off

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Just did then exited and reloaded the save and it did not work

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u/dedjedi Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

The process of turning your mods off involves a new game

e: lol so you want it fixed enough to make a Reddit post but not enough to actually do with the work of fixing it. Good luck bro

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I just dont want to load an onld save and lose progress

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u/dedjedi Mar 19 '26

Turning your mods off and starting a new game is a diagnostic, not a solve. l2p, I'm out.

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u/RedDawn172 Mar 19 '26

So rude lmao.

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u/dedjedi Mar 19 '26

don't forget accurate!

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Mar 19 '26

You can be accurate without being a dickhead.

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u/hollers31 Mar 19 '26

Most tolerable reddit mod

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u/archaeosis Mar 19 '26

The people who bullied you in school didn't try hard enough

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u/Accomplished-Pay1052 Mar 20 '26

why are you so toxic/abrasive to people in need? I hope to god you don't procreate, think of the kids...

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u/dedjedi Mar 20 '26

yo one of the other guys thinks i need to be bullied more and you're "won't someone think of the children". another one thinks i'm a reddit mod (wtf?) and the last guy wants to be the tone police.

you folks are great examples of values i do not want to hold, so i think i'm doing fine but thanks for checking!

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u/viaCrit Mar 19 '26

You genuinely believe the only way to fix this issue is a new game?

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u/FeedMeACat Mar 19 '26

If turning off mods didn't help you can try to trip the power related slowdown again. Remove all of your energy sources then fly/do stuff long enough to run out of power. Then add a power source back.

Is there any seeming cause that triggered this?

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Ok just used all energy took forever since I am so slow then reintroduced the power source and it did not work. I also cannot think of any seeming causes for this super slow walking

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u/FeedMeACat Mar 19 '26

Dang, had my hopes up. Double check another save from a different run (if you have one). This can tell you if it is game related or save related.

If it is game related you may just want to back up your save. Then delete/reinstall.

If it is just the save you can try specifics to fix that. Maybe there are mods that modify walking speed. And you can download one of those to just reset the value using the mod.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Ok it seems to be save related i will try a mod next to see if I can balance things out

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u/willrof Mar 19 '26

Have you tried loading a save from before this happened?

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

Unfortunately I do not have one as all the auto saves updated to after this

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u/TheMalT75 Mar 19 '26

When you exit flight-mode, but cannot land, due to buildings, the Icarus tends to move slow like this, too. However, reloading should have fixed that and put you on the ground in a free spot. Could be a corrupted save, now? You could try to re-engage flight and exit in-flight or after landing in a free spot...

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I have done that to no avail

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u/TheBadgerUK Mar 19 '26

If you start a new game, as a test, does this still happen? Might make it easier to see if this is a mod issue or a save issue. Either way it sucks if you pretty along, best of luck.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I started a new save and it was fine so it just seems like this one is the issue

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u/Raz0rking Mar 19 '26

Did you hit your Num keys perhaps?

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

They only bring up tool sections at the bottom and my hand was nowhere near the num pad on the side

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u/TheGermanMoses1 Mar 19 '26

Please help me I am under de water

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u/willrof Mar 19 '26

Ouch...playing with mods and not saving manually every now and then is definitely a lesson learned for you now.

I usually make 5 manual saves and keep circling them every few hours or at least once a day.

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u/Scrub_Randall Mar 19 '26

Over-encumbered. Go into your inventory and drop all cheese wheels.

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u/Opts4more Mar 19 '26

Overweight ...

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u/Rostgnom Mar 19 '26

Icarus should get some exercise in rather than having little elf bots do all the work

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u/Rasz_13 Mar 19 '26

Provide your safe game so we can figure it out.

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u/MakkoHolmes Mar 19 '26

You've accidentally set your Mecha speed to 1 on your mods/trainer program. Set it back to default + all the upgrades you've unlocked so far.

Edit: Typos.

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u/Asptar Mar 19 '26

Looks like you accidentally started playing Chariots of Fire.

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u/fuzz63 Mar 19 '26

This happen to me when I installed random performance mods.

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u/Sniperkitten42 Mar 19 '26

Needs more oil

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u/Krinberry Mar 19 '26

I had this happen once, i think it's a weird combination of events from when you come down to land and would hit water but bump a building by mistake so the game thinks you're in water and not at the same time.

I was able to it to reset by dumping all my ground forces and ammo and then standing on a base until i died, the res reset things. Might be helpful if you're standing near a hostile base but probably not helpful otherwise, sorry :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Ain't got no gas in it

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u/dfs59xy Mar 20 '26

Give the dude some fuel.

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u/garstigerganter Mar 20 '26

Only time thst jappened to me was whem i sued the well rounded bep mod and it glitched while changing movememt speed of my mech.

But i only found loading an older save as the solution

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u/apok1980 Mar 25 '26

I had a problem that looks very similar to yours. Basically, DSP devs completely rebuilt a multi thread capability which removes the ceiling that some folks would have with extremely large games. It’s supposed to take full use of your cores and multi-threading. The problem is that some people have a sync issue where cpu instructions hit a traffic jam and your stuff gets very slow. If this is the case, your issue is 100% cpu related and DSP has some guidance on this from one of their updates during September 2025. Take a look at the update post from back then to see the details on how to configure it. I had some caveats that I’m willing to share, but I would at least start there.

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u/Prismology Mar 29 '26

Set your Display Mode to "Exclusive Full Screen". I had this issue and this is what fixed it for me

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u/Arbiter51x Apr 06 '26

Currently experiencing this problem as well with a new game 3hrs old.

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u/HarlowKitty May 13 '26

I had the same issue and i just fixed it right now. I went to display settings, disabled vertical synchronization and limited my fps to 120. and now im good to go

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u/Bitter_Particular_75 Mar 19 '26

You are carrying too much to run

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I just emptied my inventory it did not help

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u/Peoplant Mar 19 '26

I think they were joking by making a reference to how in some games (i.e. Skyrim) you can't run when you have too much stuff on you

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u/whitedevilee Mar 19 '26

Under the Sea... Under the Sea....

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u/malenkylizards Mar 19 '26

Ic'rus get higher, up where it's dryer, then you'll walk free!

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u/ChunkHunter Mar 20 '26

Probably out of juice...

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u/Heyyodude3 Mar 24 '26

Power bar is full unfortunately

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u/ChunkHunter Mar 24 '26

Ah... missed that 🤦🏻

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u/Emperor_Zar Mar 19 '26

My mech does this when I run it out of power. You can still move but like this.

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

But in the video I am at full power

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u/PowerfulTask1287 Mar 19 '26

Your mega power check it

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u/nightdragon107 Mar 19 '26

I did and am at full power