Gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview -- Responses are glitchy, cutoff, delayed & sometimes non-existent

Hello everyone. I hope you’re all doing well. I use a mod that implemented gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview into a video game. The mod came out back in April, first using Gemini 2.5 Flash live preview, then switched to 3.1 preview back in early July, and it’s been the most fun I’ve ever had playing a video game!

It’s been working fine up until this past Monday (8/17), but now the audio either glitches out horribly, cuts out, has extremely long delays, or sometimes doesn’t respond at all. This is the same whether you are on a free tier or paid tier (I’m on a paid tier and still have this issue). I’ve personally given $100 towards credits and it’s still glitching and delayed like crazy. It’s unplayable now. There’s a large part of this mod community experiencing this same issue and then for a few others, it’s still working fine (both paid and free). I can’t find any common denominator, but something has definitely changed on the API side. This particular mod has been out for months and worked fine before this past Monday, so nothing in the mod has changed. It’s definitely something that changed on Gemini’s side.

Does anyone have any thoughts? The mod has become unplayable now, and there’s a lot of users who gave money into the paid tier thinking that would resolve their issues, and it didn’t, so they’ve lost money. Any feedback is most appreciated.

-CP

Hi there. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I just wanted to provide a quick update. The audio cutouts, glitches, and delay issues still continue today, so it’s been a week now. Every mod in this particular game that uses Gemini API is having issues. Some days, it might be good for an hour and then go downhill. Other days, it’s unplayable from the very start. This is for both free tier and paid tier API keys. Not sure if I’m the only one reporting on this, but I was hoping to see some sort of announcement or confirmation that Gemini is experiencing some performance issues.

Is anyone else here on the dev boards experiencing similar issues starting 8/17? Thanks in advance for anyone’s time in responding.

-CP

I’ve been experiencing similar issues, but for me the model has been bad and buggy ever since the release, but it does seem to has gotten even worse than it was before when I just tested it. It’s basically unusable and there are still issues that weren’t fixed and have already been flagged when the mode released like almost half a year ago. I’m still relying on 2.5 Flash because Google doesn’t seem to care about the model anymore since there were no changes or fixes after such a long time and they seem to be only focused on Gemini Flash text-based models and Omni.