Game Engine

[Eztrelle]

Please.. can someone confirm that DW2 does not use Unity?

I absolutely pray it does not!!!!!!

Ez

[Kitsune]

It does not, but Unity is a great engine. The only bad thing about it is their recent compiler option of il2cpp which might end up killing it.

[Eztrelle]

I just have had bad experiences with it on terms of just running my graphics card at full throttle for no reason..... same issue many game titles.. only common factor.. Unity. I am not the only one who has commented on this.

[Drago_Zet]

What i have seen is unity is better for other types of games but strategy games at a grand scale like this one, it suffers, is preferable with a inhouse built engine, i mean still you can try to do the best and organize the code and write it better but but games like endless space suffers when a lot of things happens in a 50 star system map, dont know how much space do they have to be able actually have a lot, be on 300 turns and dont have problems, i like playing large scale maps and push the cpu and the gpu.

[Drago_Zet]

I resumed the video in the questions at 56 minute mark he talks about it, is not unity, based on another engine they customized it.

[Morven]

The game engine is Stride, formerly called Xenko. Mentioned in the livestream as blackdragon36 says.

[luckz]

Originally posted by Eztrelle:

I just have had bad experiences with it on terms of just running my graphics card at full throttle for no reason..... same issue many game titles.. only common factor.. Unity. I am not the only one who has commented on this.

...can I introduce you to framerate limiters?
People like me have https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/rtss-rivatuner-statistics-server-download.html running 24/7 [with scoop: scoop install rtss], and your graphics driver (whether Nvidia or AMD) has an option that more or less does the same.

[Eztrelle]

There is one game in particular that uses Unity that completely ignores any frame rate limiter I use (MSI Afterburner and native NVIDIA ). I use a 240Hz monitor and so the game (which is a 2D strategy title) tries to drive my graphics card at 240fps.....

Oh and changing my windows desktop refresh to lower number does not work either.

But you are correct.. in most Unity games I solve Unity's desire to churn out as many FPS as it possibly can regardless of the need.. by using a frame limiter.

Ez

[luckz]

Originally posted by Eztrelle:

There is one game in particular that uses Unity that completely ignores any frame rate limiter I use

Curious, what title is that?

[Eztrelle]

Fantasy General 2

[robertosilvait]

I have still to understand why many developers (in generals ... I'm not writing about DW2 specifically) change their game engine with Unity that is horrible ... I mean from the point of view of FPS.
Okay ... I have an old PC ... but to give you a real example I was able to run THE LONG DARK at more than 60FPS before they adopted the damned Unity ... after I stopped playing the game because the same system now run the game at 20-25 FPS max.

[luckz]

Originally posted by robertosilvait:

I have still to understand why many developerschange their game engine with Unity that is horrible ... I mean from the point of view of FPS.

Because you save (literally) years in engine creation and months in terrible debugging issues.
(Yes, there are many things that are horrible about it, but please do consider the alternatives.)

What I don't understand is why there are still more than zero developers that use GameMaker.

Originally posted by robertosilvait:

I was able to run THE LONG DARK at more than 60FPS before they adopted the damned Unity ...

By the way:
The Long Dark has always been on Unity.
In 2015 it switched to Unity 5, and in 2018 it again had a major Unity upgrade, etc.

Originally posted by Eztrelle:

Fantasy General 2

Does it help your life notably if I install this and try to limit the FPS? (Well that's a late reply if there ever was one...)
I only have a 1440p144 screen though.

[TheCr33pur]

I almost got into Unity, learning how to programming and debug, etc. It look good, but i kept hearing doesnt have good customer supports if you needed something and forgot how much it cost to get supports from them. Wasnt cheap though.