LÖVE 0.10.1 released

[CraftedPixel]

I have a school computer that uses windows xp and love2d 10+ are incompatible!
But love 8 runs just fine.
When I run it with the win XP machine I get a OpenGL error.
Saying:

Unable to create OpenGL window

This program requires a graphics card and video drivers which support OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2.
Detected OpenGL version:
1.4.0 - Build 4 14 10 4410 - Intel 945G (Intel)


There should be some backwords compatibility with the older OpenGL

Thanks for reading!

CraftedPixel

[slime]

That GPU is not capable of using shaders, which LÖVE 0.10 requires to run. LÖVE 0.9.2 will work fine (although the performance of that GPU is miserable), though.

We had backwards-compatibility with those ancient 15 year old era GPUs for many years, but eventually it became more complex and bug-prone and took way more effort than it's worth to support them – especially since mobile support was added. Having mandatory support for shaders in LÖVE's APIs also means people using LÖVE don't have to worry about writing multiple graphics codepaths for when shaders aren't supported.

[alberto_lara]

The GPU is not capable of using shaders

Did you mean CPU? I thought the shaders were destined to run specifically in the GPU, maybe I'm just confused

[Nixola]

He means that specific GPU. OpenGL 1.4 doesn't have shaders.

[alberto_lara]

He means that specific GPU. OpenGL 1.4 doesn't have shaders.

Like.

[atex]

Hello everyone.
On my windows pc I have this version and everything is perfect. On my Linux (Ubuntu 14) I got a problem. Love said :
"This program requires a graphics card and video drivers which support OpenGL 2.1 or OpenGL ES 2.
SDL window creation error: Couldn't find matching GLX visual"

So as I read somewere the 0.9.2 version runs without problem on cases like this one.

Any chance of get (and where) the 0.9.2 version and install in on my Ubuntu ?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Antonio Teixeira

[Kingdaro]

You should probably update your drivers on Ubuntu from a different repository from the main. I recall Ubuntu's sources being notoriously outdated.

[smasher]

Hello,

Could someone please package this version for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) and put it the official PPA?

Thanks in advance

[Kari-Jukka]

I was wondering, why has bitmap support been removed for ImageData:encode?
There was no explanation for this and I really don't see why it has been removed in LÖVE 0.10.0.

[slime]

I was wondering, why has bitmap support been removed for ImageData:encode?

LOVE 0.9 and earlier used a rather large LGPL-licensed library called DevIL for all image decoding and encoding. In 0.10 we switched to a couple much smaller more specialized libraries.

As a result, most obscure image formats that almost no one used are no longer supported for loading, and BMP wasn't re-implemented for saving. You can just save as TGA instead of BMP though, the two formats are both used for similar purposes but TGA is a bit more common.