I'm having some performance issues. I'm developing a piexel art game that was originally made with XNA and was ported to Monogame.
The game used to run fine in the XNA build for everyone, but users are reporting crashes in OpenGL build with low-end hardware (Intel HD2000 for example).
I would like to know if there is anything I can do to solve this crashes.
Thank you.
The HD2000 series is from almost a decade ago, honestly, I think it comes down to metrics, they have numbers from Microsoft most likely of how many devices are using such hardware, either them or Steam system metrics, you can see those for yourself too.
It makes no sense to continue to support anything older - in my opinion - than 5 years, when the same team is responsible for supporting current hardware as well.
Intel technically making a second attempt at the GPU market - they never took the Larrabee to market - is exciting as it can lead to much improved iGPU performance as well as standalone socket cards.
Having said that, I believe their target segment is the Mid Tier market, which is a good market to tackle as it is the biggest market to take a chunk out of.
Another reason to be excited is new graphics technologies, Intel sits on many IP's and patents, you should go look into them, pretty sure they have over a million patents under their belt now.... ok, looking into it, they have 44,973 Grants 47,612 Applications making 71,161 Total Patents. | Source: https://www.patsnap.com/resources/innovation/intel
I personally have the Intel® Iris® Pro Graphics 580 in my 6770HQ Intel Skull Canyon, it handles quite a bit but now, being 4 generations behind, is lacking, I am looking forward to my 10th Gen processor upgrade in my next device.
Honestly if people keep thinking upgrading to modern technology nets them no added value, why should companies support them anyway? it's not like they are obligated to do so, the same goes for us game developers, we have no obligation to continue supporting a game post launch and a few patches later, we have to move onto the next project or sit idle and bleed money, the same goes for hardware vendors.
My bottom line is, newer systems are faster, and frankly buying modern hardware buys me those moments I - nor we as humans -cannot afford to lose.
MG could use it to implement the ReferenceDevice on platforms other than DirectX http://www.monogame.net/documentation/?page=P_Microsoft_Xna_Framework_Graphics_GraphicsAdapter_UseReferenceDevice
Hey everyone, I'm from the same team as @gfribeiro_gitlab. Reiterating, we had a game that ran on XNA and ported it to Monogame DESKTOPGL. After we ported, people that ran our game on very old hardware (e.g. Intel HD Graphics 2000 GPU) started getting a "Failed to create Graphics Device" exception during the game startup, and are now unable to play the game. I'm aware Monogame has compatibility issues with GPUs that don't support a certain version of OpenGL on Windows, and I'm aware of the whole "this is 10 years old hardware" argument, but bear in mind we are a Brazilian company, and this kind of old hardware is fairly common in our playerbase.
With that in mind, do you have any idea of what route we could take from here to solve this issue? Is there something we can change in code to keep the same level of support for older hardware that we had while we were using XNA? Is this something that is unattainable while using DESKTOPGL? If we change the code to use DIRECTX instead, would this fix the "Failed to create Graphics Device" issue?