I've been writing some basic programs based on the d3dapp framework. I wrote one that draws a basic checkerboard with a vertex buffer and a couple index buffers. I just rewrote my code so that I could generate vertex and index arrays at runtime with configurable sizes. I did run into some trouble with that but I think I have tracked down all of the bugs associated with variable array sizes. Anyway, my program runs fine and renders a sprite and text fine until I create a board object. Then it will go through the render code once and hang on Present() in the d3dapp.cpp code as I step through it. Unfortunately, this hangs the entire PC with no way find out what is going on. I end up having to reset the machine (Windows XP). Anyone know what I could be doing that could be causing Present() to hang the entire OS up so badly? I suppose I could still be doing something that to overwrite memory somewhere but if I just comment out the call to DrawIndexedPrimitive() then it runs fine. [edited by - Igilima on February 8, 2003 3:02:12 PM]

Hmm, the problem seems to be when I changed to D3DFMT_INDEX32 in my CreateIndexBuffer() call.

Either that format is not valid or my card or the device that I created on that card (Mobility Radeon 7500) doesn''t support it. :o(

Ah well, at least I found the culprit.