Windows

Technical information

Flax is compiled for Windows platform using Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. It uses v140 toolset (VC++ 2015), Windows 10 SDK (or Windows 8.1 SDK) with Multi-Threaded DLL runtime and .Net Framework 4.5.2 SDK Targeting Pack.

Note

Flax requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 to be installed on Windows in order to start.

ARM64 support

Flax can run on Windows ARM64 devices both Editor and cooked Game. At this moment, engine is not redistributed with ARM64 binaries nor third-party dependencies which can be built manually by the devs who wish to use or support Windows ARM64 in their projects.

Engine requires specific third-party dependencies to be built to compile for Windows ARM64. Run the following script inside the engine source workspace:

"Development/Scripts/Windows/CallBuildTool.bat" -log -BuildDeps -verbose  -platform=Windows -arch=arm64

It will automatically download all dependency packages (eg. PhysX, Assimp, freetype) used by the engine on Windows and compile them for ARM64 architecture. Then you can build and use engine.

Build options

Build Options

Property

Description

Output

The built game output folder (relative to the project).

Show Output

If checked, after building the output folder will be shown in an Explorer.

Configuration Mode

Game building mode. Possible options:

Option	Description
Release	The release build ready for shipment.
Debug	The debug build for testing and profiling. Most of the code optimizations are disabled for the best debugging experience.
Development	The development build for testing and profiling but is more optimized for runtime than Debug build.

Platform settings

Settings

Property

Description

Window Mode

The default game window mode. Possible options:

Option	Description
Windowed	The window has borders and does not take up the full screen.
Fullscreen	The window exclusively takes up the full screen.
Borderless	The window behaves like in Windowed mode but has no borders.
Fullscreen Borderless	Same as in Borderless, but is of the size of the screen.

Screen Width

The default game window width (in pixels).

Screen Height

The default game window height (in pixels).

Resizable Window

Enables resizing the game window by the user.

Force Single Instance

Limits maximum amount of concurrent game instances running to one, otherwise user may launch application more than once.

Override Icon

Custom icon texture to use for the application (overrides the default one).

Support DirectX 12

Enables support for DirectX 12. Disabling it reduces compiled shaders count.

Support DirectX 11

Enables support for DirectX 11. Disabling it reduces compiled shaders count.

Support DirectX 10

Enables support for DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1. Disabling it reduces compiled shaders count.

Support Vulkan

Enables support for Vulkan. Disabling it reduces compiled shaders count.