It’s the exact same thing. The method you’re using to enter is simply unofficial.
The “Beta App” is pretty much just a mode for the existing windows program. It isn’t an actual new program/app. All that protocol link does is enable that mode.
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I see.
Thanks for answering my question.
I like the concept, but it is just the mobile app but on windows. Add all the features from website, make a more computer friendly UI, and fix some of the super frequent bugs if you want people to actually use it.
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Currently, there are various features on the “website” part of the app that don’t occur in-app. For example, if I click the “notifications” button in the chat screen, instead of bringing up a notification widget in-app, it opens up a browser window. This makes for some really clunky UX.
Clicking the “groups” button on the home page does this as well:
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Currently, the classic keybinds to quickly leave a game do not work.
In the traditional client, pressing ESC, then L, then Enter would allow you to quickly leave a game without needing to manually click the “leave” button. However, the new beta client does not allow this. It allows you to get to the “Leave” menu, but pressing enter does not allow you to leave since the button is not selected by default, forcing you to use your mouse:
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The amount of robux under your account is not displayed next to the robux icon, whereas on the website it is:
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It seems like the whole app is made for it so players won’t leave the app. It’s literally trapping players in experiences or the app itself with disabling all the quick actions and making experiences full screen. It’s a cheap but good tactic and also can be annoying (and it’s also annoying for devs).
Not liking this mobile design on my monitor. We get bigger monitors for more content to fit in, not the same but bigger content.
This new in-game menu is nice. I liked it from the beginning and now it seems like it’ll be enabled.
With a desktop app, will we finally get V-Sync at least??
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I’m sorry if I annoy anyone with a possibly irrelevant post, but where do I sign up for the Roblox App Beta for Windows? Is it like invite-only or do I have to do something? There’s no relevant reply I’ve seen in both this and the original post yet, so any help is appreciated!
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You can manually opt in through methods posted above. But officially, Roblox chooses who to enroll and who to not enroll at-scale.
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Something I noticed when using this a few weeks ago, when joining a game from the website, the app would briefly load its main page and it’d increase loading time a bit while it did that, and, that got pretty annoying pretty fast with how much I was joining games for debugging and testing and such.
I’m curious to know if this has been fixed.
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A lot of people seem to forget that literally every OS has a task switching feature which prevents this. On Windows its Alt+Tab, on Mac its Command+Tab. And, regardless, you can’t really get trapped in a game in the app, it works the same way as playing in fullscreen, which, a lot of people do. If a game freezes while you’re in the app, you can also bring up the “This window is not responding” prompt and kill it on Windows, all it takes is clicking a few times on the window.
I agree that it’s annoying the app doesn’t have a non-fullscreen mode though.
What problems are you having that V-Sync would fix?
Correct me if I’m wrong, I think that Roblox at least is effected by D3D11 V-Sync settings, as, toggling them in my AMD options does seem to effect how the game appears to display (a lot less appealing to me for some reason). It does not effect the framerate shown in Roblox’s debug menus though.
I also don’t think V-Sync is necessary anyways, for some reason, because I have never seen screen tearing happening in Roblox, but, have seen it happen in other games before. I think with Roblox’s D3D11 mode at least, the frame is probably drawn to a buffer before its displayed on the screen, and I guess the speed that the buffer can be copied to the GPU is fast enough for screen tearing not to be a problem with my GPU. It probably wouldn’t be a problem with other GPUs either.
I don’t exactly like this, your forcing a beta onto people who may not want it.
Does that mean that I’ll be able to use the workaround to get it and itll affect my experience?
Also, @goldzun any idea when you will stop using Internet Explorer for the beta? It’s a legacy piece of software now.
This application is not new though, it’s the same as the mobile app, but its just a bit different. This comment explains it all:
Yeah, it is a slight issue, only happens when you’re in full screen. I do think this move is to make it easier to use for newer players.
Just want to quote this tweet from Portuguese DevRel relating to that post
Yeah, wish Roblox would keep it consistant and stop using IE for this.
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May I ask why staff are still resorting to releasing it to % exclusively? You have thousands of people who opted directly into the Beta Program to get access to stuff like this and till this day Its barely used at all, Cool I get 700 max players in my server and thats really about it but when am I truely gonna have 700 people in my game?
Even if they released the option to people who did opt into beta + a % of users that’ll clear up so many issues. We opted into beta to gain access to new features to try out these new features and yet its still useless.
If not even official staff members are taking the Beta Program into effect and using the members that opted into it is it really necessary for it to stick around?
That was the main issue I had with DisplayNames when it was in beta is they kept releasing it in waves and you had tons of Beta Members who still didn’t have access to it.
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Good point, however, it’s still unofficial. Other than that tweet, Roblox never mentions that anywhere, either in official announcements or help articles. It’s clear this method isn’t meant to be mainstream.
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Sorry, I didn’t see that. I’m sorry if I interrupted anyone. Anyway, thanks for the help!
Any way to make that pop-up never show up again when you are about to close the Roblox client?
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Nothing? V-sync isn’t just related with screen tearing, it’s also related with locking max. FPS to monitor refresh rate which they said might come later.
Yeah everyone commented on this knows that already. They just make some things harder.
I actually caught the Windows app a couple of months ago. I have a couple of issues, like VR support not implemented and the settings interface being a little clunky compared to the original, but I love it!
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V-Sync is just related to screen tearing, its entire purpose is syncing the game’s framerate with the monitor’s refresh rate to avoid tearing, which, does not necessarily mean increasing the frame cap. You can have V-Sync at 30 FPS due to performance being slow, even if a monitor’s refresh rate is 120hz. It just doesn’t make sense for V-Sync to have functionality to intentionally reduce frame rate, so it doesn’t.
The reason that V-Sync limits the framerate to your monitor’s refresh rate is a side effect of the way V-Sync works anyways, when a frame is drawn, its held until the monitor is ready to draw it, and, this is completely possible within Roblox at a capped 60 FPS even if your monitor has a refresh rate of 120hz.
So, what you’re asking for is not V-Sync, you’re asking about the FPS cap being more flexible, which, like you said is already something that was discussed coming to Roblox in the future, and can already be achieved unofficially with tools like FPSUnlocker, which, has been given the okay from Roblox.
This is kind of a broad statement and not really true, but, you’re expressing close to exactly what my point was. It is well known that you can use task switching to get out of fullscreen programs, which is exactly what I was pointing out. You can’t get trapped in a game from a lack of a windowed mode.
What you are asking for is to have a windowed mode, because you don’t want to need to use task switching.
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