HWA is Stable!

hey all!

To whom it may concern, I just got some data from a game I participated, "Sultan's Labyrinth: A Royal Sacrifice" and the ratio between downloads and ticket support is less than 0.5%!

This game was one of the first commercial games to use the (still beta) HWA and I was interested to see how it would perform in different computers, as the number of downloads are many thousands (with different video cards etc). That ratio between downloads and ticket support is to be considered very low (according the info I got), which means HWA, even if not officially out of beta yet, is solid as a rock compared to other commercial and custom-made engines. Kudos to Yves, François and all Clickteam staff!

Our next game is using the HWA runtime, and besides a few kinks it seems good. Game is made for the same audience too. Which DX mode did you use? 9?

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Originally Posted by Pkeod

Our next game is using the HWA runtime, and besides a few kinks it seems good. Game is made for the same audience too. Which DX mode did you use? 9?

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Yes, Direct3D9 by default. According to Yves, it rolls back to D3D8 if D3D9 is not found, and to Software mode if no Direct3D is found, but I could not effectively test this since I could not find any PC without DirectX or video card without Direct3D support :)

Ah, good to know. I was wondering about that. :)

Thanks for being brave enough to test the waters!

You're welcome :)

This is great news, thanks for sharing :)

It depends on what is done in the game/app really like effects and options used etc although that said i think HWA is in a fairly stable state now. Im sure there is still some bugs yet to be found but in general HWA should be releasable now and games being made should work fine also. It's also good to know it is working well for a commercial game, thanks for the info :)

I have been using HWA in MMF2 for quite a while now, and I must agree, it is rock solid; even in the early builds and beta's, it was still very solid, and I have yet to come accross and issue with HWA.

Clickteam FTW!

Great info, thanks!

Bruto

Thanks for posting that info about the players not encountering very many issues at all!

Hopefully we see some more games from you soon!