Deskscapes SDK Development Question
Device SDK
Saturday, October 19, 2013 by TwoWolves | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
Hi,
I was looking at the sample plugin in the DS3SDK example and documentation. These all reference a LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 device.
Does the current version of deskscapes still use a DX9 device and pipeline or does it now use a later version of the DirectX SDK?
The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to use a DX11 device (11.1 if possible) - is that possible with Deskscapes?
Thanks.
Reply #2 Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:06 PM
Thanks Neil,
DirectX10 was introduced in November 2006, is Deskscapes looking at an end-of-life path or do you have an eventual upgrade in mind?
I have found an article on MSDN on surface sharing (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee913554%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) so I'll experiment with that for now and see how I get on.
Regards.
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Reply #1 Monday, October 21, 2013 7:54 PM
The interface is actually a LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9EX on Windows Vista/7/8 as DeskScapes uses DirectX9Ex on those OSes.
We do not allow DirectX 10 or 11 as they would be incompatible with the effects which are designed to use DirectX9/9EX.