Hello. I am using sharpdx on WinRT with toolkit.

I draw to multisampled rendertarget and then resolve subresource to backbuffer to see MSAA texture as a result.

It works fine, but then I want just to draw this render target as minivariant of full view using spritebatch. And it also works, but I receive non-multisampled texture and visual studio says that

D3D11 ERROR: ID3D11DeviceContext::DrawIndexed: The Shader Resource View dimension declared in the shader code (TEXTURE2D) does not match the view type bound to slot 0 of the Pixel Shader unit (TEXTURE2DMS).  This mismatch is invalid if the shader actually uses the view (e.g. it is not skipped due to shader code branching). [ EXECUTION ERROR #354: DEVICE_DRAW_VIEW_DIMENSION_MISMATCH]

In my shader currently I use Texture2D instead Texture2DMS, but I don`t know how to correctly work with Texture2DMS.

Also drawing to texture2D not causing this error. IT appears when executing spriteBatch.End(); method in:

DepthStencilView oldDepth;
                    RenderTargetView[] oldTargets = GraphicsDevice.GetRenderTargets(out oldDepth);
                    GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTargets(depthStencilBuffer,rt);
                    GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue);
                    
                    {


                        customEffect.CurrentTechnique.Passes[0].Apply();
                        //Setup the vertices
                        GraphicsDevice.SetVertexBuffer(vertices);
                        // Setup the indices
                        GraphicsDevice.SetIndexBuffer(indices, true);


                        GraphicsDevice.SetVertexInputLayout(inputLayout);
                        
                        GraphicsDevice.DrawIndexed(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, indices.ElementCount);


                        
                        fpsRenderer.Render(d2DService);
                        d2DService.Context.BeginDraw();
                        d2DService.Context.DrawText(D2DText, d2DService.TextFormat, d2DService.RectangleF,
                            d2DService.TextBrush);
                        d2DService.Context.EndDraw();
                        device.ResolveSubresource(rt, 0, GraphicsDevice.BackBuffer, 0, GraphicsDevice.BackBuffer.Format);
                        GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTargets(oldDepth, oldTargets);


                        spriteBatch.Begin();
                        spriteBatch.Draw(rt, new RectangleF((int)SwapChainPanel.ActualWidth - 500, (int)SwapChainPanel.ActualHeight - 350, 500, 350), new Rectangle(0, 0, 500, 350), Color.White, 0.0f, new Vector2(100, 100), SpriteEffects.None, 0.0f);                        
spriteBatch.End(); 

What I must do to solve this issue? Can someone help me with it please?

You can probably just replace 'Texture2D' with 'Texture2DMS' in the shader.

You'll want to resolve your MSAA texture before you can sample from it using SpriteBatch. Just create another render target texture that has the same dimensions/format as your MSAA texture but with 0 multisamples, and then resolve to that before using it with SpriteBatch.

Interesting. It works. I thought about such solution, but was not sure to try it. Thanks a lot.

But I also want to know how to use Texture2DMS in shader. Currently if I just change Texture2d toTexture2DMS<float4, 8>, it says that Texture2DMS object does not have method 'Sample'

float4 LightPixelShader(PixelInputType input) : SV_TARGET
{
float4 textureColor;
float3 lightDir = 0;
float lightIntensity;
float4 color;




// Sample the pixel color from the texture using the sampler at this texture coordinate location.
textureColor = shaderTexture.Sample(sampleType, input.tex);


// Invert the light direction for calculations.
    color = AmbientColor * AmbientIntensity;


    // Calculate the amount of light on this pixel.
lightIntensity = saturate(dot(input.normal, lightDirection));


    // Determine the final amount of diffuse color based on the diffuse color combined with the light intensity.
    color = saturate(diffuseColor * lightIntensity);


    // Multiply the texture pixel and the final diffuse color to get the final pixel color result.
    color = color + textureColor;


    return color;
}

So, I must use texture2dms in other way, than texture2d, but how exactly?

So, if I use MS texture, shader will be like this?

Texture2DMS<float4> shaderTexture;

float4 LightPixelShader(PixelInputType input) : SV_TARGET
{
float4 textureColor;
float3 lightDir = 0;
float lightIntensity;
float4 color;
int sampleIndex = 8;



// Sample the pixel color from the texture using the sampler at this texture coordinate location.
textureColor = shaderTexture.Load(input.tex, sampleIndex);


// Invert the light direction for calculations.
    color = AmbientColor * AmbientIntensity;


    // Calculate the amount of light on this pixel.
lightIntensity = saturate(dot(input.normal, lightDirection));


    // Determine the final amount of diffuse color based on the diffuse color combined with the light intensity.
    color = saturate(diffuseColor * lightIntensity);


    // Multiply the texture pixel and the final diffuse color to get the final pixel color result.
    color = color + textureColor;


    return color;
}

Or I missing something?

Update

NO, it`s not working. Texture on the model in that case not rendered as it is not multisampled. I think, that I need separate shader or technique to resolve MS textures for rendertarget.