Game Errors

JULY 16, 2023

Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 is a turn-based strategy video game with a fantastic gameplay experience. However, many players are complaining that they encounter a problem with the “Display device has failed” error message, which subsequently crashes the game while playing on their PCs. Why does Civ 6 not recognize my graphics card?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent studio 2Dynamic Games located in Kraków, Poland. The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. Do you have prior experience with other game engines?

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Call of Duty Warzone 2 is an online game that demands a strong network connection to function properly due to its graphically demanding nature. Shut down any other apps that you aren’t using while playing the game if you want extra RAM and CPUs. Warzone 2 Stuttering? Why is Warzone 2 so laggy? How do I fix Warzone 2 stuttering?

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As a fan of medieval games, the last thing I want is to have my strategic momentum halted by getting stuck on the loading screen in Stronghold Definitive Edition. But fear not, for I have scouted the terrain and returned with strategies to bypass this impasse.

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Game Errors

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This recurrent problem disrupted the seamless flow of the game. Determined to restore the uninterrupted experience, I delved into effective solutions to unravel the mystery behind the persistent crashes, aiming to share the insights that might help you get back into the game. Why is Broken Roads crashing?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You don't have to worry about manually keeping your scenes in sync across connected devices, even for players connecting mid-game. TileMap: Fix terrain painting when using empty terrain bits ( GH-57631 ). VideoPlayer: Fix "texture not initialized" error preventing Theora video from playing ( GH-57537 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). See the changelog on GitHub , or the list of merged PRs , for an overview of all changes since 4.0 beta 3 (209 commits – excluding merge commits ― from 78 contributors).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). See the changelog on GitHub , or the list of merged PRs , for an overview of all changes since 4.0 beta 3 (209 commits – excluding merge commits ― from 78 contributors).

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In this tutorial I’ll walk you through my environmental design process for a game we plan on launching out of our studio soon. . Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. .

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures. As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. My personal solution was to program my own shape generator, based on values from the terrain generator. I put the credits on the end of the post.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Another critical thought was that I want to batch the vegetation meshes and some other meshes on runtime while playing the game. Step by step to dense vegetation and acceptable FPS. Draw call batching. And it has just twelve vertices.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. Fixed an issue where the auto-atlas texture compression configuration failed. Fixed an issue where the custom texture compression tool configuration was not valid. Fixed Mat4.getRotation

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Editor: Allow right-click to erase TileSet terrains and TileMap autotiles ( GH-65903 , GH-66656 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ). Editor: Add ability to rename groups in the GroupsEditor ( GH-62659 ). Editor: Define bold, italics and mono fonts in editor log for print_rich() ( GH-62860 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Editor: Allow right-click to erase TileSet terrains and TileMap autotiles ( GH-65903 , GH-66656 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ). Editor: Add ability to rename groups in the GroupsEditor ( GH-62659 ). Editor: Define bold, italics and mono fonts in editor log for print_rich() ( GH-62860 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. Still, Godot 3.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

WebRTC support for multiplayer games by Brandon Makin. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. WebRTC support for multiplayer games – Brandon Makin. We will soon have a GDNative plugin allowing game developers to easily use WebRTC in Godot via Godot’s high level networking.

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