after a whole day of testing I came up with this code, which captures current screen using DirectX (SlimDX) and saves it into a file: Device d; public DxScreenCapture() { PresentParameters prese...

lsys is a blazing fast L-System renderer written in CoffeeScript. Below is a simple renderer in C# and WPF. It is hardcoded to render this example. The result when run looks as follows: A mouse...

I'm programming in C#, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 RC, and using Direct3D 11 (via SlimDX) to render an animated scene. I was experimenting with unordered access textures in the pixel shader and it ...

My 3D graphics software, written in C# using SlimDX, does a lot of vector operations on the CPU. (In this specific situation, it is not possible to offload the work to the GPU). How can I make my ...

I've got a curious problem with SlimDX: we've seen this on Windows 7, and haven't yet tested other versions: I'm using a bundle of cheap USB gamepads (no serial number), and sometimes one physical ...

I'm trying to make simple SlimDX example to test some performance vs GDI and unfortunately I got stuck on the very beginning. I've created simple Console Application in VS2010 and added this code t...

I cannot make debug output for DirectX 10 to work for my simple C# application. I've installed DirectX SDK, opened DirectX Control Panel and added application exe to list. DirectX debug output was...

Good day, I am trying to display a real-time stereo video using nvidia 3DVision and two IP cameras. I am totally new to DirectX, but have tried to work through some tutorials and other questions o...

We recently upgraded from VS 2005 to VS 2008 (Windows XP). We use SlimDx in one of our projects. All was working ok after the upgrade, except my Recover function, which gets called on devicelost/de...

Xna is unsupported, and unfortunately I started game programming recently(~9 months). What is a better choice, DirectX or OpenGl. Now, I don't think DirectX or OpenGl have official libraries...

I'm making an audio player using XAudio2. We are streaming data in packets of 640 bytes, at a sample rate of 8000Hz and sample depth of 16 bytes. We are using SlimDX to access XAudio2. But when pl...

I am writing a C# application that is using the Kinect, i am taking the output currently and writing it to a Shader Resource and rendering it as a texture, my issue is that the Kinect (apparently) ...

I have a WPF application that is intended for overlaying a HUD in a live stream. The original idea was to create a plugin for xsplit (a popular application for presenting live streams) to display t...

Which one of these offers the best API for game development? Which library is easier to use, faster, has more documentation?

I am part of a team that has created a tool to view and interact with very large and heavily interconnected graphs in C#/WPF. Viewing and interacting with the graph is done through a custom control...

I'm working a lot with Visual Studio 2008, .NET C# 2.0-3.5 and Windows Forms and I have noticed, like many before me, that GDI+ is extremely slow in drawing Controls. Note that I do not deal with i...

I'm trying to use SlimDX and DirectX10 or 11 to control the stereoization process on the nVidia 3D Vision Kit. Thanks to this question I've been able to make it work in DirectX 9. However, due to s...

I have recently made an application that takes screenshots of games. First I used GDI to capture the game but for that I had to disable aero at win7/vis and I had some issues on windows XP. Than ...

I've installed the June 2010 SDK Enabled the Debug Runtime in the DirectX Control Panel set the Debug Output Level to maximum (More) Enabled unmanaged code debugging. Result: The debug output ...

Currently working on a 3D media engine using C# and I have come across a little conundrum. I have my rending loop figured out, I got a great plug-in architecture and content management system...

Is it possible to use DirectX 10 (I am using SlimDX) with WPF's D3DImage? The only examples and docs I can find only show using DX9 surfaces.

Are there any major titles or open source games based on SlimDX framework out there? I understand that it's pretty much just a wrapper on top of DirectX, but it would still be interesting to see it...

I am transitioning from WinForms/XNA to WPF/SlimDX because: a) all of the benefits of WPF over WinForms (but learning curve = ouch!) b) I would like to have multiple SlimDX viewports attached to ...

Okay, this is something that should be a simple matrix question, but my understanding of matrices is somewhat limited. Here's the scenario: I have a 1px by 1px sprite that I want to scale by some a...