Tiled.exe crashes on Windows 8 without OpenGL installed
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Description
Preferences > General Tab > Hardware acceleration drawing (OpenGL) ticked
When creating New Map with this option ticked, Tiled.exe crashes due to OpenGL not installed on my machine.
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Research direction
Reproduce the crash on Windows 8 by enabling Preferences > General > Hardware acceleration drawing (OpenGL), then creating a new map without OpenGL installed. Trace the failure from the New Map action and verify that the application no longer crashes when hardware acceleration is unavailable.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100