![]() Right-click it, then choose to view its Properties, which will open the following window for you and you can see that Windows as selected the important "Target" line for you already:Ĭlick at the end of this line and add in a space and then " /renderer=OpenGL" without the quotes. Find your relevant GameMaker installation shortcut in the list: This will then open an Explorer window pointing at your Start Menu contents. The easiest way to do this is to open your Start Menu (here, we show Windows 10) and right-click on your GameMaker shortcut and choose to open its file location: Setting the Startup Flag on Your GameMaker Shortcut They should both now be gone from the "mesa" folder and be inside the "GameMaker" folder instead. Select both of the two files here and then click-drag them onto the "GameMaker" bit of your address bar to move the two files: Open Explorer/My Computer and navigate to your GameMaker install folder (yours will likely differ from mine shown below - the default is C:\Program Files\GameMakerStudio2\): Note that there may then be a few more lines about your graphics setup and quite likely a crash message also, but we don't show an example crash message here because will differ depending on your issue whereas that line above will always be written out. If you open the file C:\ProgramData\GameMakerStudio2\ui.log you'll see the following error message has been written out a handful of lines up from the bottom of the file: Attach the text file you've just saved to the Helpdesk ticket, rather than pasting in all of its contents, please.Ĭurrent GameMaker Versions Confirming The Issue Wait for the progress bar to finish, then click Save All Information, give it a save name). ![]() If following this FAQ still doesn't fix, please open a new Helpdesk ticket and include the ui.log file mentioned below, plus a DXDiag report (which you can create by pressing the Windows key + R, type "dxdiag", click OK. Please note that as this is a software renderer it will use your CPU and so performance inside GameMaker won't be as good and your CPU usage figure in Task Manager might well be higher than you'd expect. It's worth noting that if you have just updated your GPU drivers and not yet rebooted you may temporarily also be in this state, so do reboot your PC first to rule out any momentary driver issues. This is often required in some remote desktop or VM setups also, depending on the hardware involved and the settings of the remote/VM software. If you get crashes very shortly after opening GameMaker or the IDE won't start at all, then it's worth checking if this is because your GPU doesn't support the hardware acceleration GameMaker uses. ![]() If you do have this issue when using old GameMaker releases, please consider simply updating your GameMaker install as a first step. ![]() Recent versions of GameMaker determine this issue automatically and you should not need to follow this guide unless asked to by a support staff member however, very old versions of GameMaker require you to install the driver manually. ![]()
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