Why does program built in v3,3, win 32-bit crash on loading & not recognize my OpenGL 3.3?

Doug09

I am trying to run a game (name on request) built with v 3.3stable in Win 32-bit.

The game goes through 2-3 minutes of a "Loading" screen, displays one Godot warning message, then crashes with no apparent cause/message.

The memory usage goes up to 1003 MB, then down to 15 MB for the last minute before crash. "Loading" game window title also gets changed by having "(DEBUG)" added to it when the Warning is given.

In the log, it says it is using (based on my integrated GPU) "OpenGL ES 2.0 Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series" though the 4200 specs say it can run OpenGL 3.3.

Can someone tell me if the crash is caused by my somewhat old computer's GPU, or of another likely source?

Log:

Godot Engine v3.3.stable.official - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL ES 2.0 Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series    
OpenGL ES Batching: ON
 
Game Version: 0.6.1c
OS: Windows
**WARNING**: BaseButton's Enabled Focus Mode property has been deprecated due to redundancy and will be removed in Godot 4.0. Please use Control.set_focus_mode instead.
   At: scene/gui/base_button.cpp:329:set_enabled_focus_mode() - This method has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.

Calinou

This is a very old, low-end graphics card with poor OpenGL 3.x support. I recommend switching to the GLES2 rendering backend (Rendering > Quality > Driver > Driver Name in the Project Settings), then exporting your project again.

If you don't have access to the project files, you can force an exported project to run with GLES2 by using the --video-driver GLES2 command line argument when running the executable. However, some effects might look broken and particles may be missing.

Doug09

Thanks for .exe command-line option

I ran that from batch file, got same crash & log. Project probably already forced GLES2.

So rendering/my old GPU probably not cause of crash.

Is there a chance project was built so Warning-level error causes crash? Because after the Warning appears, the main game window's title gets added to it " (DEBUG)".

Is there a run-time option to choose different error-level tolerance?

OK, found https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/editor/command_line_tutorial.html?highlight=run-time for all command-line options. Error-level tolerance not apparently there.

Calinou

Is there a chance project was built so Warning-level error causes crash? Because after the Warning appears, the main game window's title gets added to it " (DEBUG)".

Exporting a project in debug mode doesn't affect warning/error behavior. Godot tries to always recover from errors and aims to never crash.