Zordak
Devlog - 57 [New Screenshots + Linux Question/Info]
Changes:
Increased "Sleep Margin" to 25 from 15, the game will now use a bit more CPU power to reduce the chance of it being stuck at a lower framerate than intended, this could happen because of power saving features on some laptops.
Improved the new suit sprites a bit.
Added a new enemy.
Added misc missing sounds.
Added "Effect Render Scale" menu option, controls render scale of bloom, lighting, AO, etc where a higher value means smoother screen but at the cost of performance.
Added a bar to graphics related menu buttons indicating performance impact in attempt to try and help people know what to change.
Rewrote the lighting shader a bit, fixes "oval" looking lights + slightly improved visual quality and performance.
Updated misc demo related rooms.
Fixed 9 bugs / issues.
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So.. I've been feeling a bit down again and I won't go into detail but that's one reason why there hasn't been a devlog in a while.
I don't really have much to say this time other than I'm trying to get the new demo done and I may have to go back to testing Linux in a virtual machine again.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS does not want to work properly on my laptop anymore, I don't know what the issue is but the screen just goes black whenever I rotate or change screen resolution.
The weird thing is that it does not happen on the login screen, rotate works just fine there but as soon as I log in and try to rotate or change screen resolution it goes black.
If anyone has any idea what's going on there, feel free to let me know.
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Nice screenshots!
Could be an Gnome rendering related issue. Have you tried other distributions with Gnome Desktop Environment? Or have you tried another Desktop Environment?
Hey, thanks.
The thing is... everything worked just fine before I reinstalled the same version of Ubuntu to have a clean system again.
I've since then reinstalled it multiple times but the issue is still there.
But to actually answer you question: no, I have not tried any other desktop environment or other distributions yet.
Reason being - I want it to be as standard as possible which I assume is what 90% of users use and therefore making testing as good as possible.
Considering that rotation works on the login screen, it's possible something has gone bad in your user profile.
If you create a new username, then login as that new user, does resize and rotate work okay as the new user?
Thanks for the suggestion but nope, that did nothing, black screen when rotating as soon as I logged in.
I also forgot to mention that the same thing happens if the laptop goes into sleep mode, when trying to start it up again the screen lights up but remains black.
Same thing also happens when pressing the "lock" button from the menu you turn off the computer.
I don't know what to do, I've searched around and tried a bunch of different things but nothing seems to work.