I wanted to clear this up. We all want as much as possible to be done on the GPU, correct? Meaning that whatever can be hardware accelerated, you want to use that feature on the hardware. How can I be sure that I''m sending as much as possible to the GPU instead of the CPU? Is there anything more I can do than just change the flag VERTEX_SOFTWARE_PROCESSING to VERTEX_HARDWARE_PROCESSING and what exactly does changing that flag do? Does it switch between the REF and HAL rasterizers? The reason that I''m asking is because I got my Geforce4 a little bit ago and I''m having some big problems converting my app which ran good on a VOODOO 3 (!!) . Simply when I changed the flag mentioned earlier when creating the D3D device to ''hardware'', all I got were green and pink flashing screens. Any ideas? Thanks!

I don''t think your code is the problem. Try to update your GFX drivers.

VERTEX_SOFTWARE_PROCESSING works on all cards

VERTEX_HARDWARE_PROCESSING works on some cards.. GeForce 2-3-4 etc..

Since your GeForce 4 behaves strange while your using HARDWARE VERTEX PROCESSING, that might be a driver problem.

I''ll definitely check the debug output. Thanks for reminding me. It''s on my new computer and I hadn''t set the d3d debug up really so that wasn''t my first inclination. I''m sure that''ll tell me exactly what''s wrong once I get it set up!
I did remove those flags from the buffer creation.
And I''m pretty sure I have the latest driver because we just installed the card a few days ago, and went online to download the drivers. I''ll check the debug runtime though, that seems to be the only way to discover my problem.
(I wish I could right now, but my computer''s at my brother''s house -_- )
Anyway, I''ll look into it more when I get the chance. Thanks guys!

Changing just the device creation flags is not enough, have you also changed the flags for creating the vertex buffers?

Yep I had thought that I did. But.. I didn''t change it in one of my classes that created a vertex buffer. I changed that, and then fiddled with my flexible vertex format for my stream (I think it was formatted wrong in my last change to the program) and it worked. Although a lot slower than expected.. but, it must have been that one flag? I''m not sure, but at least I''m getting an image.
Thanks again!