Godot Constantly Crashes after updating from Windows 7 to Windows 10

Lake

After putting it off for years, I finally upgraded to Windows 10, and now Godot is always crashing.

My graphics card is a super old GeForce 210. It was working with Godot before the upgrade, now it is very sad. Is this a known issue? I can provide further details if asked.

Megalomaniak

Are you using default drivers from windows update or have you installed drivers downloaded from nvidia directly?

Lake

I reinstalled the most recent drivers for my graphics card from Nvidia.

Megalomaniak

Try running godot from the console with the following arguments:

--video-driver GLES2

So for launching say v3.2.1 stable it would be:

cd path-to-godot-executable-here
Godot_v3.2.1-stable_win64.exe --video-driver GLES2

See if that works.

edit: actually from the screenshot in OP it looks like the editor works fine? Then make sure you have changed the project settings to GLES 2 renderer.

Lake

Actually, most of the time it crashes when I'm loading a project. I think only that one time I got the screenshot did it crash while I was trying to run my game.

In any case, it's still crashing with the OpenGL ES 2.0 Renderer

Edit: Looks like I got the project running long enough to change its own setting to GLES2. It seems to play. Hopefully it stays stable now. Does this look like a graphics card problem? I've been thinking about upgrading.

TwistedTwigleg

Looking at the error provided, it may be a graphics card issue. It looks like your graphics card supports OpenGL 3.3, but that is the oldest version it supports. It may be the drivers for the GPU on Windows 10 are missing something or otherwise not running like the Windows 7 version.

It might be worth upgrading your GPU if you can. Though something to consider is that AMD is expected to launch new graphics cards soon, and Nvidia just released new cards a bit ago (and supposedly budget cards in response to AMD are coming out soon).

Larrxi

Try change your registry like written here: https://docs.substance3d.com/spdoc/gpu-drivers-crash-with-long-computations-128745489.html