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Stability TGE Advanced

by Emile Van Hes · in General Discussion · 02/28/2007 (11:11 am) · 6 replies

Hi all!

At the moment we are using the Torque Game Engine.
For a project we are planning to use the Garagegame Torque Engine Advanced.

My question is very simple: is it in your opinion save to use the advanced game engine or is it better to stick with the normal engine and wait for a while.



Thanks and Regards,

#1
02/28/2007 (2:12 pm)
Seriously... read some of the recent threads on the subject.

Just say no to RSI Injury.

www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tgea/
#2
02/28/2007 (2:18 pm)
Can you explain your answer?

I simply cannot find anything about stability in reviews.

I want some answer from anyone who has some experience with this.
#3
02/28/2007 (3:37 pm)
TGE has been on the market for years. TGEA has just reached version 1.0. A totally honest answer is that TGE will be more proven and stable than TGEA. TGE is in hundreds of shipping products, and TGEA is being used by a lot of games, but not many shipped examples.

Use of shaders in TGEA will also cause you to find more card incompatibilities than the older cards acceptable in TGE.
#4
02/28/2007 (11:33 pm)
TGEA can be used to make a full, great looking and stable game

We have now been using it for 2 years for Air Ace.

But be prepared to hti a snag here and there that _you_ have to solve. And dont expect all the UI parts to be there either.

With that said, it is still a super advanced and great engine for the money. Also GG has been lending us support for a lot of the issues (thanks Ben). Just dont expect a super polished engine with no bugs and tools for everything like TGE
#5
03/01/2007 (1:10 am)
@Emile Van Hes

We will know more about the stability and scalability of TGEA as it is used for full games over time. It only just released.
#6
03/01/2007 (3:09 am)
There are some snags in it... but nothing really unstable about it. Unstable sounds like it's gonna crash every 3 minutes... The only crashes I experienced was because of errors on my side.