I've got a simple DirectX 10 3D program I wrote for class in order to display a varying number of triangles on screen then print out the FPS. I'm having an issue when I attempt to print text to screen. My triangles no longer render and I receive the following error messages in my output window: D3D10: ERROR: ID3D10Device::Draw: Input Assembler - Vertex Shader linkage error: Signatures between stages are incompatible. The reason is that the input stage requires Semantic/Index (POSITION,0) as input, but it is not provided by the output stage. [ EXECUTION ERROR #342: DEVICE_SHADER_LINKAGE_SEMANTICNAME_NOT_FOUND ] D3D10: ERROR: ID3D10Device::Draw: Input Assembler - Vertex Shader linkage error: Signatures between stages are incompatible. The reason is that Semantic 'COLOR' is defined for mismatched hardware registers between the output stage and input stage. [ EXECUTION ERROR #343: DEVICE_SHADER_LINKAGE_REGISTERINDEX ] Any suggestions? If I do not attempt to run my DrawTextString function everything runs fine. Code:

void DX10App::DrawTextString(int x, int y, D3DXCOLOR color, const WCHAR* strOutput)
{
	LPCWSTR text = LPCWSTR(strOutput);
	FontSprite->Begin(0);
	RECT rect = {x, y, 100, 50};
	Font->DrawText(FontSprite, text, -1, &rect, DT_LEFT, color);
	FontSprite->End();
}

void DX10App::Render()
{
	D3DXMATRIX mTranslateStart;
	D3DXMATRIX mScale;
	D3DXMATRIX World1;

	D3DXMatrixIdentity(&World1);

	float ClearColor[4] = {0.0f, 0.125f, 0.3f, 1.0f};
	d3dDevice->ClearRenderTargetView(RenderTargetView, ClearColor);
	
	if(myApp->GetTriMode() == 0)
	{
		D3DXMatrixScaling(&mScale, 1.0f / triWidth, 1.0f / triHeight, 1.0f);
		D3DXMatrixTranslation(&mTranslateStart, -1.0f / (triWidth / (triWidth + 1.0f)), (triHeight - 1.0f) / triHeight, 0.0f);

		WorldVariable->SetMatrix((float*)&World1);

		D3D10_TECHNIQUE_DESC techDesc;
		Technique->GetDesc(&techDesc);

		D3DXMatrixIdentity(&World1);
		D3DXMatrixMultiply(&World1, &World1, &mScale);
		D3DXMatrixMultiply(&World1, &World1, &mTranslateStart);
		
		for(int i = 0; i < triHeight; ++i)
		{
			for(int j = 0; j < triWidth; ++j)
			{	
				//D3DXMatrixMultiply(&g_World1, &g_World1, &mTranslateRight);
				World1._41 += 2.0f / triWidth;

				WorldVariable->SetMatrix((float*)&World1);

				for(UINT p = 0; p < techDesc.Passes; ++p)
				{
					Technique->GetPassByIndex(p)->Apply(0);
					d3dDevice->Draw(3, 0);
				}
			}

			//D3DXMatrixMultiply(&g_World1, &g_World1, &mTranslateLeft);
			World1._41 += -2.0f;
			//D3DXMatrixMultiply(&g_World1, &g_World1, &mTranslateDown);
			World1._42 += -2.0f / triHeight;
		}
	}
	else if(myApp->GetTriMode() == 1)
	{
		D3D10_TECHNIQUE_DESC techDesc;
		Technique->GetDesc(&techDesc);

		WorldVariable->SetMatrix((float*)&World1);

		for(UINT p = 0; p < techDesc.Passes; ++p)
		{
			Technique->GetPassByIndex(p)->Apply(0);
			d3dDevice->Draw((int)triHeight * (int)triWidth * 3, 0);
		}
	}

	WCHAR str[255];
	swprintf_s(str, 255, L"FPS: %.2f NumTris: %d", FPS, (triWidth * triHeight));

	DrawTextString(0, 0, D3DXCOLOR(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f), str);

	::SetWindowText(m_hWnd, str);

	SwapChain->Present(0, 0);
}

Mabye (remember, mabye) you should deactivate the shader, becouse, mabye, using NULL as ID3DXSprite, the shader code can't work on the text.
mmm ok it's wrong you are using sprite...

It's a my opinion so i do not know if it can work, but you can try in this way:

Just add this code before the DrawText, and use NULL as Sprite.

device->PSSetShader(NULL);device->VSSetShader(NULL);device->GSSetShader(NULL);

After the DrawText call, use

shader->GetTechniqueByIndex(0)->GetPassByName(0)->Apply();

Let me know about it.




Yes, i use DirectX10 from 1 week :D

That didn't seem to make any difference.

Thanks though.

Thanks for your help. That was exactly it.