directx-9

I've been searching and testing different kinds of rendering libraries for C# days for many weeks now. So far I haven't found a single library that works well on multi-windowed rendering setups. The requirement is to be able to run the program on 12+ monitor setups (financial charting) without latencies on a fast computer. Each window needs to update multiple times every second. While doing this CPU needs to do lots of intensive and time critical tasks so some of the burden has to be shifted to GPUs. That's where hardware rendering steps in, in another words DirectX or OpenGL. I have tried GDI

I am trying to launch my directX/SharpDX app with DeviceCreationFlags.Debug but i am getting the following crash upon startup: SharpDX.SharpDXException: HRESULT: [0x80004005], Module: [General], ApiCode: [E_FAIL/Unspecified error], Message: Unspecified error at SharpDX.Result.CheckError() at SharpDX.Direct3D11.Device.CreateDevice(Adapter adapter, DriverType driverType, DeviceCreationFlags flags, FeatureLevel[] featureLevels) at SharpDX.Direct3D11.Device..ctor(Adapter adapter, DeviceCreationFlags flags, FeatureLevel[] featureLevels) at SharpDX.Toolkit.Graphics.GraphicsDevice..ctor

I learn DirectX (DirectX 9) from www.directxtutorial.com and using visual studio 2012 in windows 8. d3dx9 (d3dx) replace by other header like DirectXMath, therefore I replaced all that is needed, but there is a problem - convert XMMATRIX to D3DMATRIX. The problem code (The problem written - / problem! /): void render_frame(void) { // clear the window to a deep blue d3ddev->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 0), 1.0f, 0); d3ddev->BeginScene(); // begins the 3D scene // select which vertex format we are using d3ddev->SetFVF(CUSTOMFVF); // SET UP THE PIPELINE DirectX::XMMATRIX

My question is really above, I will give more information on this below however: I have a program which first takes my "false" d3d9.dll, this DLL is then loaded into the game I am reverse engineering. After the some time and the .dll is loaded, along with all the other games dependencies I want to inject my DLL which will do all the dirty work of the reverse engineering. I think I can load this DLL into the program using LoadLibrary, however when I'm using the DLL I injected to run the main reverse engineered code. Is there a function I can use to call something from the d3d9.dll? This is

This is my first question ever on StackOverflow, hurray! I can honestly say I use StackOverflow on daily basis for both my work and personal programming mysteries. 99,9% of the time I actually find the answer I need on here too, which is great! My current problem actually stumped me a little as I can't seem to find anything which actually works. I've already read several posts on GameDev.net and found other resources around the net but can't sort it out. I am in the process of porting a small 2D engine I wrote for XNA to SlimDX (just DirectX9 at the moment), which has been a good move as I

I'd like to draw to the desktop wallpaper area with directX 9 in particular. Under the icons and text above the wallpaper. Similar to Okozo or one of VLC's modes, or Dreamscene. So there's a lot of similar questions to this but no working examples or tutorials.This A simmilar question but different approach seems pretty useful. A few years ago I was searching and found this site and code . It's perfect aside from one big issue the icon text gets blocky even with alpha blending. I tried a few fixes but I wasn't able to find any helpful documentation maybe I just wasn't using the right words for