I''m working on my implementation of the Quake 3 format and everything seems to work fine other than nothing appears on the screen and the program seems to freeze. What happens is almost as if it alt+tabs because once it finishes loading and it freezes, I can see the taskbar. I then proceed to close it and I get a dialog box saying that it''s not responding. I click close and when I''m back in the IDE I see this info in the debug output window Direct3D8: (ERROR) :*** Exception in d:\builds\nt32_chk\multimedia\directx\dxg\d3d8\fe\vshader.cpp Line: 664 this here is my rendering function

void CDXGraphics::Render(CBSP * World)
{
	m_pD3DDevice->Clear( 0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET | D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0,0,0), 1.0f, 0 );

	m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene();
	m_pD3DDevice->SetVertexShader (D3DFVF_CUSTOMVERTEX);
	m_pD3DDevice->SetStreamSource (0, m_pVB, sizeof(BSPVertex));
	int iNumFaces = (World->GetLumps()+Faces)->iLength/sizeof(BSPFace);
	for(int i = 0; (i < iNumFaces); i++)
	{
		if((World->GetFace()+i)->iType == 1)
		{
			m_pD3DDevice->SetTexture(0, m_pTextures[(World->GetFace()+i)->iTextureID]);
			m_pD3DDevice->SetTexture(1, m_pTextures[(World->GetFace()+i)->iTextureID]);
			m_pD3DDevice->DrawPrimitive(D3DPT_TRIANGLEFAN, (World->GetFace()+i)->iStartVertexIndex, (World->GetFace()+i)->iNumOfVerts);
		}
	}
	m_pD3DDevice->EndScene();
	m_pD3DDevice->Present( NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL );
}
 

Thanks Etran

It doesn''t give me any specific errors, just what I got from the ouput window. Just for reference this is the entire output from it, although most of it is just loading symbols into the debugger.

''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\Documents and Settings\All Users\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\E3D Version 0.1\Debug\E3D Version 0.1.exe'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll'', No symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\imm32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\lpk.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\usp10.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8d.dll'', No symbols loaded.
Direct3D8: :====> ENTER: DLLMAIN(00bd3650): Process Attach: 00000cec, tid=00000900
Direct3D8: (WARN) :Executing processor detection code (benign first-chance exception possible)

Direct3D8: (INFO) :MMX detected

Direct3D8: (INFO) entium Pro CPU features (fcomi, cmov) detected

Direct3D8: (INFO) :dwCPUFamily = 6, dwCPUFeatures = 7

Direct3D8: (INFO) :szCPUString = AuthenticAMD

Direct3D8: :====> EXIT: DLLMAIN(00bd3650): Process Attach: 00000cec
Direct3D8: (INFO) :Direct3D8 Debug Runtime selected.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\msctf.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\Program Files\Microsoft Hardware\Mouse\point32.dll'', No symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\Program Files\Microsoft Hardware\Mouse\Msh_zwf.dll'', No symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\mslbui.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\oleaut32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
''E3D Version 0.1.exe'': Loaded ''E:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll'', Symbols loaded.
Direct3D8: (INFO) :======================= Hal MixedVP device selected

Direct3D8: :Subclassing window 000b073c
Direct3D8: :StartExclusiveMode
Direct3D8: :WM_DISPLAYCHANGE: 1600x1200x32
Direct3D8: (INFO) :HalDevice Driver Style 7

Direct3D8: (INFO) :Failed to create driver indexbuffer
Direct3D8: (INFO) :Using X3D PSGP

Direct3D8: (WARN) :Ignoring redundant SetRenderState - 153

Direct3D8: (WARN) :Ignoring redundant SetRenderState - 7

Direct3D8: (ERROR) :*** Exception in d:\builds\nt32_chk\multimedia\directx\dxg\d3d8\fe\vshader.cpp Line: 664

Unhandled exception at 0x77f7f570 (ntdll.dll) in E3D Version 0.1.exe: User breakpoint.
The program ''[3308] E3D Version 0.1.exe: Native'' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

I''m not sure what your asking, as I said, It seems at if it switches to d3d8 but after that I can see the taskbar, and I have to manually close it. I don''t get an error message per say. Pretty much all I get is what''s in the debug window. Could something like this be caused by a misinitialized pointer?

Etran