Seasonal greetings,

My game uses MonoGame for Windows desktop and one Windows 7 user gets an error every time when creating a 2D rendertarget:

HRESULT: [0x80070057], Module: [General], ApiCode: [E_INVALIDARG/Invalid Arguments], Message: The parameter is incorrect.

Line: 0

at SharpDX.Result.CheckError()
at SharpDX.Direct3D11.Device.CreateTexture2D(Texture2DDescription& descRef, DataBox[] initialDataRef, Texture2D texture2DOut)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Texture2D.CreateTexture()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.RenderTarget2D.GenerateIfRequired()

The user has Win7 SP1 and also this patch:

https://support.microsoft.com/da-dk/kb/2670838

which is supposed to help, but doesn't.

I found the patch in this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/498240/discussions/0/360671352681600886/

Chip type: GeForce GTX 280

Any ideas??

Thanks, I will look into the capabilities of that card, I didn't realize it was that old.

I think the texture size in the call is equal to the resolution, 1440 * 900. In the method that crashes I am creating all the rendertargets that the game needs for its various processing, about 10.

DiffuseMSRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                 width, height, false,
                  pp.BackBufferFormat, pp.DepthStencilFormat, pp.MultiSampleCount, RenderTargetUsage.PreserveContents);


            // resolve target - not needed?
            diffuseRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device, width, height, false,
                pp.BackBufferFormat, pp.DepthStencilFormat, 0, RenderTargetUsage.PreserveContents);
            
            


            edgeDetectNormalDepthRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                                                         width, height, false,
                                                         pp.BackBufferFormat, pp.DepthStencilFormat, 0, RenderTargetUsage.PreserveContents);




            // no depth buffer, no multisampling!
            shadowRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                width, height, false,
                pp.BackBufferFormat, DepthFormat.None, 0, RenderTargetUsage.DiscardContents);


            // no depth buffer, no multisampling!
            diffuseFinalRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                width, height, false,
                pp.BackBufferFormat, DepthFormat.None, 0, RenderTargetUsage.DiscardContents);


            emissiveModelLightRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                width, height, false,
                pp.BackBufferFormat, DepthFormat.None, 0, RenderTargetUsage.DiscardContents);


            emissiveModelLightDistanceRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                width, height, false, SurfaceFormat.Rg32
                , DepthFormat.None, 0, RenderTargetUsage.DiscardContents);


            DistanceHeightAndBillboardAlphaRenderTarget = new RenderTarget2D(device,
                   width, height, false, SurfaceFormat.Rgba1010102, DepthFormat.None, 0, RenderTargetUsage.DiscardContents);

I suspect it's one of the SurfaceFormats, or the multisampling that is causing the error. However I cannot find the specs with supported formats anywhere.

Thanks. I used the XNA/MonoGame HiDef profile to try to avoid these issues...

I wrote on the store page, under requirements: DirectX 10 capable graphics card

I guess that isn't accurate enough. However, I don't want to recode the graphics now. Perhaps it is best to require DirectX 11 then..?

Message: The parameter is incorrect

What are the parameters?

I only have the callstack and the code that causes it, I cannot repro the error.

I'm guessing width is 1440, height is 900 and the other parameters are constant as seen in the code snippet.