• chunes@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Godot is fairly unkind to old hardware, unfortunately. Much preferable for people to just use SDL or something.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard anyone say Godot is fairly unkind to older hardware before.

      Sure, yeah, if somebody is futzing around in 3D, in the Forward+ renderer, and has no idea what they are doing, yeah.

      But… broadly?

      How… old of hardware are you talking about?

      Like, 15+ years old?

      Also, SDL isn’t … a game engine.

      Its… a rendering/input/output layer/library.

      Sure, if you want to write your own game engine, you could use SDL… but… that’s a bit much to ask of a novice indie dev, who wants to complete a 3D game that’s maybe roughly as or more graphically advanced than say, Fallout New Vegas, in under what, 3, 4, 5 years?