Device Creation Failure - On Start

Kieran Chandler · 2012-02-29T00:17:00

Hi, I am doing the DirectX programming course part 2 with the Game Institute. I have had many problems with finding the solutions to these errors, but this one is nowhere to be found. i have gone over the code and it matches the course project but still, when I run my game engine it runs aground instantly. It brings up an error saying "Device creation failed. The application will exit". This error message occurs when the "CreateDisplay" function shown below fails. HRESULT D3DInitialize::CreateDisplay(CD3DSettings& Settings, ULONG Flags, HWND hWnd, WNDPROC wndProc, LPCTSTR Title, ULONG Width, ULONG Height, LPVOID lParam) { ULONG CreateFlags = 0; CD3DSettings::Settings *pSettings = Settings.GetSettings(); if(!hWnd) { WNDCLASS wc; wc.style = CS_BYTEALIGNCLIENT | CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW; wc.lpfnWndProc = wndProc; wc.cbClsExtra = 0; wc.cbWndExtra = 0; wc.hInstance = (HINSTANCE)GetModuleHandle(NULL); wc.hIcon = NULL; wc.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH); wc.lpszMenuName = NULL; wc.lpszClassName = Title; ULONG Left = CW_USEDEFAULT, Top = CW_USEDEFAULT; ULONG Style = WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW; if(!Settings.Windowed) { Left = 0; Top = 0; Width = pSettings->DisplayMode.Width; Height = pSettings->DisplayMode.Height; Style = WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP; } mhWnd = CreateWindow(Title, Title, Style, Left, Top, Width, Height, NULL, NULL, wc.hInstance, lParam); if(!mhWnd) return E_FAIL; } else { mhWnd = hWnd; if(!Settings.Windowed) { SetMenu(mhWnd, NULL); SetWindowLong(mhWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_VISIBLE | WS_POPUP); SetWindowPos(mhWnd, NULL, 0, 0, pSettings->DisplayMode.Width, pSettings->DisplayMode.Height, SWP_NOZORDER); } else { RECT rc; GetWindowRect(hWnd, &rc); SetWindowLong(mhWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW); SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, rc.left, rc.top, (rc.right - rc.left), (rc.bottom - rc.top), SWP_NOACTIVATE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW); } } D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS d3dpp = BuildPresentParameters(Settings); CreateFlags = Flags; if(pSettings->VertexProcessingType == PURE_HARDWARE_VP) CreateFlags |= D3DCREATE_PUREDEVICE | D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING; else if(pSettings->VertexProcessingType == HARDWARE_VP) CreateFlags |= D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING; else if(pSettings->VertexProcessingType == MIXED_VP) CreateFlags |= D3DCREATE_MIXED_VERTEXPROCESSING; else if(pSettings->VertexProcessingType == SOFTWARE_VP) CreateFlags |= D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING; mD3DDevice = NULL; HRESULT hRet = mD3D->CreateDevice(pSettings->AdapterOrdinal, pSettings->DeviceType, mhWnd, CreateFlags, &d3dpp, &mD3DDevice); if(FAILED(hRet)) { if(mD3DDevice) mD3DDevice->Release(); mD3DDevice = NULL; return hRet; } return S_OK; } Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance Kieran

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by KieranChandler February 15, 2012 03:40 AM

36 comments, last by KieranChandler 12 years, 1 month ago

Washu

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February 20, 2012 07:34 PM

yes because i didn't know how to answer most of them which is why i was asking so many questions.

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/general-programming/introduction-to-debugging-r2322

Oh, and if you don't know how to do something, changing the subject doesn't help. ASK.

In time the project grows, the ignorance of its devs it shows, with many a convoluted function, it plunges into deep compunction, the price of failure is high, Washu's mirth is nigh.

KieranChandler

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February 20, 2012 07:39 PM

but none of this works i need to wipe/restore my laptop, but i can't do that yet

Evil Steve

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February 20, 2012 08:12 PM

yes because i didn't know how to answer most of them which is why i was asking so many questions.

Asking questions is absolutely fine, but in order to answer them, we need to ask you questions too - which we need you to answer

but none of this works i need to wipe/restore my laptop, but i can't do that yet

I'd recommend trying to get other apps / games working first, if no D3D games work then there's very little chance that you'll be able to get D3D programming working - and if you're not familiar with D3D, then that won't help at all.
Asking about Ubuntu is also absolutely fine, but you should start a new thread in the appropriate forum (GDNet Lounge seems like the best forum to me).

KieranChandler

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February 20, 2012 10:59 PM

If you look back at previous replies i stated that i had tried unity3d and that doesn't work either i don't know what to do

Evil Steve

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February 21, 2012 03:48 PM

If commercial applications aren't working, then you'll need to sort that out first, and that would be a tech support question that we can't usually help with. If D3D is messed up to the extent that it seems to be, then restoring or re-installing your OS sounds like a sensible option.

KieranChandler

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February 21, 2012 04:35 PM

my thoughts exactly, thank you, i will try it

KieranChandler

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February 22, 2012 04:25 PM

i just ran "dxdiag" it turns out i was running the wrong one. I can't put the information on here because it won't give me the option to, but it says Direct3D Acceleration : Not Available