Category Archives: DirectX

Checking if your Graphics software runs on GPU

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Ofek Shilon

What are we asking exactly? This is actually not that easy to phrase. If you see anything on a screen, your software does make use of some graphics processing unit – but it is more likely you’re interested in particular … Continue reading →

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Solving rxinput.dll Crashes

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Ofek Shilon

Recently I started getting hit by access violations with weird stacks: It seems an exception is thrown early in the life of some thread, during the initialization routine of rxinput.dll – a dll I never heard of. Naïve googling taught … Continue reading →

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OptimizedMesh DirectX Sample Having Issues With Large Meshes

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Ofek Shilon

The DirectX SDK comes with quite a few nice samples, neatly organized in a sample browser. Quoting the documentation from the OptimizedMesh sample: This OptimizedMesh Sample sample demonstrates the different types of meshes D3DX can load and optimize, as well … Continue reading →

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