Hi all,
Well, last night I learned why my laptop is so bad with rendering graphics... it literally only has 128MB of dedicated VRAM. It's basically 6 year old integrated graphics on a small laptop not built for graphics. The tough part is that it's got double the RAM of my other, even older laptop. What's worse is that I have an even older Alienware box that had dual Nvidia 1GB graphics cards in it, but I can't use that because one of the cards is broken and the machine no longer has hard drives in it... not to mention it's 16 years old. The 1,200W power supply soaked up a lot of electricity and it was often loud when the fans were blowing.
So I can't use any machine I have to do graphics stuff for DamNation very well. This laptop is already challenged just compiling what I have now and I'm just getting started and have a long way to go. A cloud solution is too expensive for a sole part-time indie pretend dev like me. So do I buy a new computer? Not any time soon I don't think.
So more graphics may not come for some time. I'll just be working on all the other stuff for now. I have a lot to do... an almost overwhelming amount of things. I guess I've got nothing but time, so there's that. I learned one person had been working on their game off and on for 6 years now. I'm at less than 6 months I think, if I include when I tried this the first time Summer of 2025. I'm just gonna keep working on making DamNation better and better.
thanks for reading!
Ortisha