[IMPORTANT] Technical Update - New Rendering Engine

Top of menu bar chopped off in windowed mode on my intel nuc.  fine in full scren mode.

image: https://imgur.com/a/DVbPm8r

Windows 7 Home Premium

HP p7-1010, AMD Athlon II x4 645 processor, 6.00 GB

Problems with windowed mode. Can't minimize game to do other things. Only problem I've found so far.

Window 10

x64 Professional version 1803, AMD 3 core CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM

When trying to use the magnifyer in dungeons it is only magnifying the secondary monitor not the primary monitor.

Today we have deployed a new rendering engine for TT2. The old one was DirectX based, while the new one is OpenGL based. This will allow us to make versions of TT2 for platforms other than Windows. First target is Mac, with distant plans for mobile some day.

Unfortunately it means that many things were changed and thus many bugs were inevitably reproduced. What we need it to EVERYONE post the following information into this thread:

1. Which Windows version are you running
2. Your desktop/laptop hardware
3. Graphical / visual bugs are you experiencing after today's update. If you don't see any visual bugs - state "No bugs"

This is extremely important so please post here and ask your friends / allies to do the same.

Thanks in advance.

- Windows 7 64-bit

- Intel processor, ATI graphic card (from year 2008)

- No bugs, and actually I have a higher framerate than before, didn't know opengl could be better than directx.

I play with aero disabled (dwm.exe is running though), still when I enable it I can use windows magnifier with no issue.

Just tried on a second computer:

- Windows vista 32-bit

- still intel cpu, graphic card is from the motherboard

- this time I DO have bugs: windowed mode is like fullscreen, graphic glitches.

10     mac   unable to launch game

Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz

RAM 8GB

Radeon HD 6670 1G

Old school PC but works fine, no bug found.

Windows 10 - HP laptop

64 bit op sys x64 processor 2,5GHz

12 G Ram -

Have to run in windowed mode. Magnifier does work in windowed mode. 

In windowed mode I cannot see the bottom of the screen. Now I remember why I ran it in full screen before.

On a side note, have to agree with many people that the game is much smoother scrolling and responsiveness.

10     mac   unable to launch game

How did you launch the game before the update on Mac?

pined to side bar launcher works  white screen fades away

Windows 10 - HP laptop

64 bit op sys x64 processor 2,5GHz

12 G Ram -

Have to run in windowed mode. Magnifier does work in windowed mode. 

In windowed mode I cannot see the bottom of the screen. Now I remember why I ran it in full screen before.

Which is one reason I always run it in full screen mode too.  :-D

win 10 Home 10.0.17.34

AMD A8-3800 APU w/Radeon HD graphics

memory 8GB

only issues: magnifier only works in windowed mode. opens at 1300% magnification. can be lowered. Windowed mode unable to see borders to minimize screen. Brief white screen when switching towns in windowed mode

Windows 8.1    64 bit

Intel core i5  5200u cpu 2,20 Ghz

4 gb ram  Intel Graphics 5500

Game runs much smoother now.

No bugs found yet

Another problem is that printscreen button no longer works, if you try and take a screenshot and paste it into Paint all you get is a picture of your desktop and not of the game

Lenovo windows 7 Home Premium

intel core i3-2120

cpu- 3.30 ghz

6 RAM

No issues so far

No option to edit my post so had to quote myself... I can no longer take a screenshot of game. It is like it is not there and it takes a shot of the desktop only. Tried in full screen and windowed modes

Windows 10 Home version 1803

Intel Core i7-1850H 2.20 GHz and 2.10 GHz

4GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

No problems so far since update.

1. Windows 10 Home (10.0.17134)

2. Intel Core i3-4000M 2.40GHz , Intel HD Graphics 4600. Toshiba Satelite Pro C650

3. No visual bugs, cannot switch to windowed mode at all. 

For those who can't screenshot: until it's fixed, try using Fraps to make screenshots or videos.