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Re: SFML is unreliable.

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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 07:32 PM
Yes it is. At least at it's current state, it may get better later on.

SFML 1.6: Works ok on Ubuntu, refuses to open on Windows 7 with ATI card, periodically freezes on Mac OS X Lion
SFML 2.0: Changed a huge part of its API so it was a pain to port, refuses to open on Mac OS X Lion and is slow on Ubuntu

SFML is a nice project and all, it just doesn't have enough testing and isn't backed up by big projects as SDL.

Meh, meh. I think I'll just switch to SDL; it's much more reliable from what I've seen.
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Legend26 is not online. Legend26
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03 Jan 2012 07:33 PM
*Has an ATI card that SFML works fine with*

Lies. Besides, 2.0 isn't released officially yet.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 07:34 PM
IDK what's up with your computer, but it farts in my face when I attempt to start it on my Windows desktop which uses an ATI Radeon whatever card.
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Legend26 is not online. Legend26
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03 Jan 2012 07:36 PM
There's a certain dll file you can put into an sfml exe's directory that fixes the issue. There's a thread somewhere on their forum.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 07:38 PM
No, I've put the required dlls in the directory. It doesn't error anything, it just refuses to start. Even Laurent stated that SFML 1.6 is known to have problems with Windows PCs with ATI cards.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 07:45 PM
Hmm, is Allegro any good?
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Legend26 is not online. Legend26
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03 Jan 2012 07:47 PM
Dunno. Haven't tried it because SMFL works for me. (Although I haven't had the time to do anything besides a few tiny things with it)
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 07:49 PM
It used to work for me when I only used it for Ubuntu. Now I need to find an alternative. D:

Wasn't Stravant talking about a graphics library he really liked? What was it called?
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NVI is not online. NVI
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03 Jan 2012 07:55 PM
Allegro is older than my grandma's petunias. Try GLFW, it's the most flexible solution. It basically hides the ugly parts of OpenGL and lets you focus on cool stuff.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 08:06 PM
GLFW sucks elderberries. I tried it for some time and was way less than impressed.

SDL seems to be nice. I think I'll try that, unless Stravant pops up to tell us the name of his favorite graphics library.
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Merlin11188 is not online. Merlin11188
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03 Jan 2012 08:11 PM
I seem to recall stravant using SFML.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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03 Jan 2012 08:15 PM
But he also talked about some library that's like uberly awesome, and was similar to Processing.
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Merlin11188 is not online. Merlin11188
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03 Jan 2012 08:16 PM
But cost money, I think. Personally, I used SFML (yeah right. I never bothered with going past the default program). But now I have Lion, so I'll have to test it out again...
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