OK.Here we go:
Windows 7: release date 2009, Man, totally outdated ! Dont use it !
Windows 8 to 10: Perfect for Ms. Moneypenny behind her desk ! (Buy me a new PC !) Huh, that program does not work anymore, thats strange. Because i updated? Video driver: Not available. Or is it the one with 2.5 Gigabyte size ?
Update to the next higher version of your operating system if you need it or not ! Dont Use Windows XP, because it works fine with GStudio and many other external tools. But reliable as it was/is: It is outdated. You better buy a new 64 bit PC with Windows 10 and lots of RAM. Games are better on Windows 7 or 10 than on XP. Thats for sure.
Strange people: They program in assembler ! They use old Toshiba Laptops with DOS (!) and make music with screamtracker or noisetracker. Must be crazy 8bit-Guys.
But even more strange: There is still a growing amount of text adventures for the sinclair spectrum. Also: Fandal publishes new Games for the Atari 800XL every last day of the month, Sometimes with exellent quality. What the hell is that ? That cannot be !!! Because this machine is sooo outdated. New C64 Games, yes even with commercical offers...
People make maps for DOOM or Unreal still. Why do they do that, if you can waste your time with dealing around with the newest buggy update for your operating system.
Would you like to drive a Jaguar E-Type or Mercedes Benz SL ? Dont' you even think about that, because they are sooo outdated.
OK. Enough provocation.
Gamestudio offers you everything you need to create a good PC Game. Especially if you are a single indi developer. To be admitted: The interface of GStudio is rather oldfashioned. But not overhauled like e.g. Blender.
The quality of a Game however belongs to you, your phantasy, skills and patientce. And the manpower you have availabel.
The GS engine runs stable and it is up to you what external tools you want to add for support of your work.
This forum is full of stuff and help you can download and use, you must have seen that. BTW if you expect other engines or development systems to be bugfree or that they do all the hard work for you, I think you are wrong.
Since it's release (A3) the game engine has been updated many many times always with new features the users (!) demanded. If someone is to blame that the engine was killed it were those users who underestimated the amount of work and time it needs to make a good game. However, as you can see on the front page of this site there are commercial games made with GStudio from the earlier days.
The guys who are here and repeatetly post "The engine is dead" never told us where the games are,they made with other engines.
Some last words IMHO: High tek shooters or counterstrike competitons are silly and stupid as can be: always the same. Game industry realized that and focused on recreating old games. However I think they cannot bring back the charm of the old C64,Atari,Amiga and DOS world. Retro Games are fun and mostly free. No need to buy 1000 Dollar machine to heat up your room...:-)
OK, now you can go to discord and find some friends or discuss with 3run why Gamestudio games made in Windows 7 are better than games made in WinXP ;-).
Neodumont
Many PCs, Many Operating systems (including Win 7 for Gaming only)
