I have been wanting to give game programming ago for a long while and never got round to it, and i have finally decided to give it ago. I have decided to try and create a simple to 2D platfor...

Can XNA and C# be used to create commercially feasible PC/XBOX games? Is it the best approach for creating 3D games with C#? If not, what would be?

Does anyone know how to programmatically capture the sound that is being played (that is, everything that is coming from the sound card, not the input devices such as a microphone).

I'm messing around with 2D game development using C++ and DirectX in my spare time. I'm finding that the enterprisey problem domain modeling approach doesn't help as much as I'd like ;) I'm more o...

We're working on an application that displays information through a Direct3D visualisation. A late client request is the ability to view this application via some Remote Desktop solution. Has anyo...

I'm learning DirectX as part of a hobby project. I've been looking for some good online resources for DirectX9 (using C++, if that distinction matters), but haven't found anything that's a) g...

I need to figure out how to get the data from D3D textures and surfaces back to system memory. What's the fastest way to do such things and how? Also if I only need one subrect, how can one read ...

I've been using OpenGL for years, but after trying to use D3D for the first time, I wasted a significant amount of time trying figure out how to make my scene lights stay fixed in the world rather ...

I'd like to display 100 floating cubes using DirectX or OpenGL. I'm looking for either some sample source code, or a description of the technique. I have trouble getting more one cube to display c...