[Survey] How many of you CANNOT run GZDoom's OpenGL renderer

[edward850]

You put that $10 in the bank. And then you keep doing that. It's called an emergency hardware fund. Eventually you wind up finding $200 in there when a graphics card that was suddenly made a legacy product and needs replacing. Then hand the old graphics card down to the unlucky person who wound up with an off the shelf ATI that barely understood what OpenGL was.

Something tells me this is a more common thing in New Zealand to do then elsewhere in the world, as I never hear of anybody else doing it all that often in other countries.

[Graf Zahl]

a cheap ass laptop...

Well, there's your problem. Don't buy that stuff or you may be in for some nasty surprises. Even when going cheap you should at least make sure that you don't purchase some obsolete hardware.

[m4lmaster]

Easy: You put that $10 in the bank. And then you keep doing that. It's called an emergency hardware fund. Eventually you wind up finding $200 in there and a graphics card that was suddenly made a legacy product needs replacing.

to be honest im not EXTREMELY worried on getting one, i got eyes on a build next year once taxes come, i would just care to see other opinions.

[Devianteist]

You put that $10 in the bank. And then you keep doing that. It's called an emergency hardware fund. Eventually you wind up finding $200 in there when a graphics card that was suddenly made a legacy product and needs replacing. Then hand the old graphics card down to the unlucky person who wound up with an off the shelf ATI that barely understood what OpenGL was.

Something tells me this is a more common thing in New Zealand to do then elsewhere in the world, as I never hear of anybody else doing it all that often in other countries.

That's cause New Zealand is prepared for everything.

[m4lmaster]

a cheap ass laptop...

Well, there's your problem. Don't buy that stuff or you may be in for some nasty surprises. Even when going cheap you should at least make sure that you don't purchase some obsolete hardware.

cant say no to free man.

[ibm5155]

make a video asking for donations for getting a proper hardware to be abble to play at least doom.
spam that video over aaa youtuber channels and facebook, and there you go

[DaMan]

Bing rewards will get you about $5 a month. There are more ways if you have a lot of free time.

[DoomKrakken]

My computer crashes or performs like total ASS with some maps/mappacks, which renders them almost unplayable, such as Ultimate Torment 'n Torture, Winter's Fury, Insanity's Edge, Stronghold: On The Edge Of Chaos, and Sapphire. It did so even more with GZDoom 2.x, for whatever reason. I downloaded the most recent build of GZDoom very recently, and it lags less...and is less prone to crashing, but it still crashes randomly with some stuff. It's not even a normal crash, where it says, "Sorry! GZDoom crashed, so submit a crash report" window. No error messages either.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that GZDoom keeps getting set to low priority, but I don't know...

[edward850]

It's not even a normal crash, where it says, "Sorry! GZDoom crashed, so submit a crash report" window. No error messages either.

And predictably, none of these crashlogs have been posted.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that GZDoom keeps getting set to low priority, but I don't know...

I want you to stop and think very carefully about this. Very, very carefully.

[DoomKrakken]

I don't take hints well. What is it you are trying to tell me?

[edward850]

What hints? Neither of these were hints. You have failed to post any of your alleged crashlogs, but continue to complain about them anyway as if developers were psychic or something. Windows resource slicing will have absolutely 0% effect on the logical stability of a program's code.

[DoomKrakken]

BUT THAT'S THE PROBLEM. IT CRASHES WITHOUT EVEN OPENING A WINDOW FOR ME TO TYPE IN AND SUBMIT A DAMN CRASHLOG.

If they don't know what causes it, then fine.

[edward850]

I confused the words crashlog and bug report, but the point remains that you have failed to notify anybody about anything.

[DoomKrakken]

Consider it notified.

[ibm5155]

Can't believe Edward missed a key question: What's your hardware? (CPU, gpu, ram, OS)
And for the last, you could test msi afterburner to check if the CPU or gpu (or both) after the faulty