The struggles of making a game using @opengl nowadays as a small indie developer.
TLDR: it& #39;s become unusable and nobody gives a shit 1/N

#gamedev #indiedev

Video driver crashing in our game on @IntelGraphics . Reported test case, no shits given, they closed the forum topic

2/N

The @Steamworks Steam Overlay has been crashing our game on older Intel GPUs for years now. Reported the issue, nothing changed

3/N

@Razer Cortex has an FPS overlay that, when enabled, lowers the performance of the game by 70%, while the FPS counter is unreadable because flipped/inverted

video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mm74fend8rfq3dm/Video%2024.03.2021%2C%2009%2035%2047.mov?dl=0

4/N">https://www.dropbox.com/s/mm74fen...

The @discord overlay crashes the game on certain hardware configurations.

5/N

And so many other apps that inject themselves into the OpenGL dll and break stuff. Overclocking software, streaming software, too many to list.

Bottom line: there used to be a sweet spot in time where using OpenGL would get your game on most platforms. Not anymore. Use DirectX.