windows8.1 disables part of DirectX control panel?

Poo Bear · 2014-02-18T14:40:22

Hi, I have to maintain some old D3D9 code and I have to use a windows8.1 machine to do it, everything compiles and runs, but I need the debug runtime activating to search down some issues. However, it's been greyed out - eek! I did find some posts referring to a fix for this: "Using regedit, go to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Direct3D. The "Trusted Installer" has ownership of this key. Change ownership to Administrators, then grant "Full Access" to the Administrators. Now run the DX Control Panel (as admin, of course). Now the changes should be saved." Problem is I can't find Direct3D in the registry? I've got DirectDraw/Input/Music/Play/Show/X/XSDK, but no Direct3D. Anybody got any ideas how to activate the debug runtime? I know the obvious ones are either go back to win7 or upgrade all the code DX11, but sadly neither of those options are practical. thanks...

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Started by Poo Bear October 21, 2013 01:00 PM

15 comments, last by db123 10 years, 2 months ago

21st Century Moose

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October 21, 2013 07:50 PM

The fix I posted above enables the use of debug runtimes on Windows 7 even after SP1.

The platform update was the breaking change, though. That's the one in kb2670838 where the D3D11.1 components came in and wrecked everything.

Direct3D has need of instancing, but we do not. We have plenty of glVertexAttrib calls.

Adam_42

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October 21, 2013 08:27 PM

From: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/03/22/where-is-the-directx-sdk.aspx

The only way to get the debug version of Direct3D 9 for Windows 8 is to install a 'checked' version of the OS.

Poo Bear

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October 22, 2013 05:12 PM

Thanks for all the help, I did manage to take ownership of the registry keys (finally), but it doesn't make any difference. This does seem a bit of a heavy handed move by MS, not sure what a "checked" version of win8.1 is or where to get it. A bit of text output doesn't seem a lot to ask for those of us forced to maintain old code (surely hundreds?).

Kjell Andersson

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October 22, 2013 09:05 PM

I think that the only thing we need from the "checked" version is the d3d9.dll & d3d9d.dll. (I'm just speculating, might be more that is needed)

I made a test and copied the d3d9d.dll from my Win7 machine to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ on my Win8 machine. Obviously is does not work, but one can note that the Direct3D 9 control panel is no longer grayed out. It would be nice to know if there is a d3d9d.dll out there somewhere for Windows 8

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Alessio1989

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October 23, 2013 12:27 AM

From: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/03/22/where-is-the-directx-sdk.aspx

The only way to get the debug version of Direct3D 9 for Windows 8 is to install a 'checked' version of the OS.

"checked" version aka Debug Symbol installed? Here are the installers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463028.aspx

The ISO with Symbols is also available on MSDN and Dreamspark Premium accounts..

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Direct3D 12 quick reference: https://github.com/alessiot89/D3D12QuickRef/

Adam_42

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October 24, 2013 08:26 PM

Downloading the symbols won't get you a checked build. Unfortunately you need a DreamSpark / MSDN subscription.

I'd suggest dual booting an older retail version of Windows instead.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff543450%28v=vs.85%29.aspx