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

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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: dropbox.com/s/mm74fend8rfq…

4/N
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.

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