Hi,

All of a sudden I have been getting an error at my EndScene and Present. I have spent the last day trying to figure this out but have had no luck. The project builds with no errors but when I run it I get an error "Unhandled exception at 0x011b1a4f in Ping.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000".

The error happens on the EndScene.

Either your g_p3DDevice pointer, or the CDirectx instance is null (I.e. you're calling EndFrame() on a null pointer).

Thanks again Evil Steve!! Its great how you can spot the problem but if its staring me in the face I am blind as a bat. :)

The problem was in where I created my device.



The problem was that I was using D3DDEVTYPE_HAL instead of D3DDEVTYPE_REF like above.

I looked up the differences and from what I read D3DDEVTYPE_REF should only be used for development purposes. So why might I be getting errors with hal? I rather fix these things now than face bigger problems in the future.

Many thanks once again.

What do the Debug Runtimes say? If CreateDevice() fails with HAL but succeeds with REF, it's usually because you're trying to use a feature that your card doesn't support. You should be checking the device caps for everything you need, so you know if a function is likely to fail. You should also be able to gracefully handle "major" functions like CreateDevice() failing, and abort the program and display an error the the user.

The REF device is a software renderer, that's designed to be a "perfect" GPU / driver - it'll implement everything possible, but it'll be extremely slow. The only time you should be using it is if you're checking up on a potential driver bug (If the results from a HAL and REF device differ, REF is always right), or if you're trying to develop a feature that your graphics card doesn't support (E.g. if you needed to use pixel shaders but your dev PC only had a GeForce 2)

Thanks for the advice. I am going to spend a lot of time doing checking the device caps.

My debug runtime says:

D3D9 Helper: IDirect3D9::CreateDevice failed: D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE

Isn't my D3DERR a library file or dll file?

How come my return is not being called when the device does fail?



Thanks for the explanation on HAL and REF. That all makes a lot of sense now.


Many Thanks

agisler

In addition to what Aardvajk said; make sure your debug output level in the DirectX Control Panel is set to maximum - you should get more information than that, telling you exactly what is unavailable. Can you paste your entire debug output?

Hi,

Sorry about taking so long to get back. This is what was in my debug window....

'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\CODEBASE\ANDREW_GISLER\Ping\Debug\Ping.exe', Symbols loaded.
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\d3d9.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcrt.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\sechost.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\rpcrt4.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\lpk.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\usp10.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\version.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\d3d8thk.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\dwmapi.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcr100d.dll', Symbols loaded.
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\imm32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msctf.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\avgrsstx.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\advapi32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\uxtheme.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ole32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cryptbase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\clbcatq.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\oleaut32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\d3d9d.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\winmm.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
Direct3D9: :====> ENTER: DLLMAIN(6820d9a0): Process Attach: 000009fc, tid=00000ff0
Direct3D9: :====> EXIT: DLLMAIN(6820d9a0): Process Attach: 000009fc
Direct3D9: (INFO) :Direct3D9 Debug Runtime selected.
'Ping.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\nvd3dum.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
D3D9 Helper: IDirect3D9::CreateDevice failed: D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE
First-chance exception at 0x009e1a9f in Ping.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x009e1a9f in Ping.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.


Here is my code for initialising my parameters and etc.

Quote:
You'll also find it easier to track this stuff if you actually respond to a positive from the FAILED() macro with an error message rather than just ignoring the result.

If i understand this correctly your saying that I should do something other than just simply using the return keyword? I was planning on putting something there more significant at a later time. Its just there for temporary purposes.

Thanks again for all the help.

It is most likely that your hw/device doesn't support D24FS8 depth stencil format.
you should check (among many things) it before feeding it into pparams:

and also you definitely shouldn't do this

m_iWidth=c_pPlatform->GetMainWindow()->m_iWidth;
m_iHeight=c_pPlatform->GetMainWindow()->m_iHeight;

the window can be any size, while there are certain available resolutions for device. Set back buffer sizes to what ...
g_p3DObject->GetAdapterDisplayMode(D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, &g_displayMode);...
tells you, or set them to 0 if you run in windowed mode.