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D1116: Unexpected Hardware Creation Error

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An unexpected error [error code] was encountered while trying to create a Direct3D Target.

 

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error code

The error code encountered.

Possible Causes

This message occurs when Direct2D could not produce a hardware target resource with the parameters specified by the application. A likely cause is that the application requested a hardware target whereby Direct2D must take ownership of allocating the target texture, such as through ID2D1Factory::CreateHwndRenderTarget, and the requested size was too large. Each Direct3D feature level imposes a limit on texture sizing. See Direct3D feature levels.

Possible Fixes

When allocating a target, ensure that the target size does not exceed the maximum size allowed by the feature level. To troubleshoot target allocation problems more finely, consider modifying the application to allocate the target texture itself, and verify the allocation succeeds. To directly use that texture as a target, interoperate it as an ID2D1Bitmap and use the ID2D1Bitmap as the argument to ID2D1DeviceContext::SetTarget.