How does the new 3.1 work exactly?

Gonoob

So, here's the problem:

I have Integrated intel HD graphics and running portable Godot 3.1 alpha2 on 32 bit Win 7.

When I launch Godot, it starts up fine, but once I create new project, it crashes. It's improvement from 3.0 which crashed immediately on launch. So I think the default project settings are set for GLES3 and not for GLES2, which I think is bug. But before I go and try to report it I think I should first understand how this new system work.

I also managed to find one sample project that has been set to GLES2 (In-Game Console sample) so I can open it without the crash. But this makes me wonder whether it's as simple as switching the GLES version or if there's actually two versions of Godot (meaning that once project has been started with one version, it can't be changed any longer)? Since I can't change it myself (it crashes) can anyone please check if they can change the GLES version (upper right corner in editor) on their existing project and then just change it back again without any hustle?

Thanks in advance and any help much appreciated.

Zireael

GLES2/3 can be changed at will in the editor, which then restarts.

If you can't launch it first, there are commandline parameters to launch with GLES2, IIRC --GLES2.

Gonoob

The command line parameter doesn't work. But that's ok. Thanks for answering my question. :hug:

Megalomaniak

@Zireael said: If you can't launch it first, there are commandline parameters to launch with GLES2, IIRC --GLES2.

That is a project not editor preference/setting. :/

edit: The actual cli argument is --video-driver GLES2 and it works on my end(thanks Rubonnek @ irc for pointing it out). Also realized later that --help works as an argument too, and in the help list the above --video-driver argument is listed there too.

Looking at the issue tracker, it seems likely that godot 3.1 is launching with gles2 renderer automatically for hardware that doesn't support gles3. The problem is that the GLES2 renderer is not stable yet, so a lot of people get crashes with it.

Gonoob

@Megalomaniak said:

@Zireael said: If you can't launch it first, there are commandline parameters to launch with GLES2, IIRC --GLES2.

That is a project not editor preference/setting. :/

edit: The actual cli argument is --video-driver GLES2 and it works on my end(thanks Rubonnek @ irc for pointing it out). Also realized later that --help works as an argument too, and in the help list the above --video-driver argument is listed there too.

Looking at the issue tracker, it seems likely that godot 3.1 is launching with gles2 renderer automatically for hardware that doesn't support gles3. The problem is that the GLES2 renderer is not stable yet, so a lot of people get crashes with it.

I already tried but couldn't find where in project files it can be changed?

Well, it's definitely not launching automatically right now (at least not for me anyway). Like I said, I managed to find a project online with correct settings and it (has few glitches but) haven't crashed once. Only thing is I have to delete everything before I can start doing anything.

But thanks for your input.

Edit: Ok, it seems that there is something else wrong with the default scene and windows instead.