did anyone have performance problems with our game?

On ‎8‎/‎15‎/‎2017 at 9:59 PM, racsoth said:

I'm having trouble testing some games made in Unreal, such as Domino Castle. The game works for some minutes and then I'm getting the error I attach.

I found this thread with some workarounds: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/545292/unreal-engine-is-exiting-due-to-d3d-device-being-l-3.html

I've tried the first with no success. Some people say that unchecking "Real-Time Thumbnails" in UE made the engine more stable...

Sorry, I just noticed the post, were you able to run the game, or you still have the problem?

@Endurion I saw that you had performance problems on the game, I may soon upload a more optimized version for those who want to try the game, also If I may ask, what were the specifications on your system? also thanks for the feed back, really appreciate it.

1 hour ago, ArThor said:

@slicer4ever

Can I post a link to a version of my game with potential fixes for the bugs Thaumaturge and Endurion have found? Obviously it cant be counted for the competition but if anyone is willing to give feedback it would stand a better chance of working.

The best place for that would be to edit the description of your game to point to the updated version.  at the moment i can't change entry's without affecting the judging.  but maybe in a few weeks i'd be open to allowing submission changes with updated and bug fixed versions. 

On the site i've done a couple reviews already, planning to do a few more tonight.  I've also fixed the formatting issue with new lines to insert <br/>'s, and i've fixed a bug with some mobile browers which called resize's and might have made scrolling a pita.

@slicer4ever I see a couple of reviews of my game by @Thaumaturge and @racsoth have been truncated. Is it possible to recover those?

16 minutes ago, dmatter said:

@slicer4ever I see a couple of reviews of my game by @Thaumaturge and @racsoth have been truncated. Is it possible to recover those?

unfortunately no :(.  They would have to reappend whatever is missing.  I should have done some more checks initially to detect if your review would get truncated, but after seeing that happen i also realized that my character limit was exceedingly low for reviews, so i upped it substancially, and added a message to tell you if your review would get truncated so it can be adjusted.  I'm hopeful they can remember what they wrote and fill in the blanks.

3 hours ago, slicer4ever said:

 I'm hopeful they can remember what they wrote and fill in the blanks.

Alas, I don't recall what more I had to there--sorry, @dmatter.

I've just been alerted to an issue in my game: it seems that, on some machines, the terrain and player-hand will be pitch black (and thus all but invisible). It looks like this is due to an oversight on my part related to how the engine handles vertex colours--or, more accurately, the lack thereof. It seems that, under Panda1.9 (which I've been using), a lack of vertex colours leaves the relevant Panda-provided vertex-colour shader input undefined, but usually black. On both of the machines on which I tested the game, however, it seems that it comes out as white, thus showing no apparent problem. My apologies for this!

(It does look as though upgrading to Panda3D 1.10 would likely fix the problem, as the manual indicates that under that version the shader input is instead defined as white in the absence of vertex colours, I believe.)

10 hours ago, IYP said:

@Endurion I saw that you had performance problems on the game, I may soon upload a more optimized version for those who want to try the game, also If I may ask, what were the specifications on your system? also thanks for the feed back, really appreciate it.

 

That would be neat. I've got an old AMD Radeon, don't even know the details (currently not on the PC). It basically goes in sluggish mode as soon as there's a lot of full screen post processing.