Hopefully it can be fixed. But I don’t understand using a publisher for PC… I can give you the most important tip to release on Steam and that is to have your game in coming soon long enough to gather as many wishlists as possible 10k + would be ideal. Once you get enough wishlists Steam will organically begin to help you get more. If you do a decent launch you get put into the popular release list, and this is much easier to do if many people have it on their wishlist as they get e-mail by Steam when it releases.
The casual portals are kind of dead. Mobile ate their lunch. They can still make some money but not like they used to.
After a lot of experiments and downloading dmengines one by one from
d.defold.com
, I found that dmengine_release works fine on this PC.
Looks like problem only with debug version of the engine.
BmC - old project, and we have freezed it before new appmanifest features was relesed. And project had no appmanifest (unfortenetly we have released few updates to mobile without appmanifest too =(( ). That mean that we use debug version of the engine in all our builds (even with Release checkbox, yes it’s still debug dmengine).
Like result: after adding game_release.appmanifest to the project, it works fine on this old PC.
It still can be issue in future for some developers, but not an issue for me anymore.
P.S.: like a conclusion - Defold needs more convinient way to build release bundle. I already used appmanifest few times in other projects, but even I forgot about it. For guys who new with the engine it will be a problem.
Well, the debug builds make checks that all the OpenGL calls behave correctly. This is disabled in the release builds. We still need to find this issue, since you cannot work on a machine that has this issue (BuIld and run launches the debug build)
And yes, making the workflow easier for the native extensions is also on our roadmap.
I just ran into the same issue. I’m currently sitting at the place where I work, wasting time with a crappy old laptop we have here (Sony VAIO VPCEB1E1E running Windows 7). I’ve decided to kill some time uninstalling old crap to make it run a little faster, which was a success - seems like the only thing I broke is Defold, which used to run “fine”.
As I was getting rid of some of the ballast, I uninstalled the graphics driver which presumably came with the laptop ages ago and after a while found a working replacement, which seems to be the same as the one shown by OP in the screenshot (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470).
What happens now is that when I try to build the project, it crashes on startup and the console says:
Assertion failed: 0, file …\src\opengl\graphics_opengl.cpp, line 594
The line number is different, but it’s probably the same issue.
Bundled debug version crashes, bundled release version is fine. “Build HTML5” works too.
This is not a big issue for me (on the contrary, I have other stuff to do than mess around with Defold), but if there’s more info I can give or stuff I can try that you’d find helpful, just let me know.
We updated the our game from 161 up to 166 version and got the same error (gl error 1280) on several devices with MALI-400 GPU
Yea, if I halved the sprite max count, the game is running withour gl error 1280.
But what we can do, if we need this sprite amount?
What happened from 161 defold?
