Supported Direct3D APIs for Windows Phone 8

July 21, 2014

Applies to: Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 only

This topic describes the Direct3D APIs that are supported on Windows Phone 8.

This topic contains the following sections.

Direct3D APIs

The following table lists Direct3D APIs and indicates whether they are supported on Windows Phone.

API	Is supported	Notes
D3D11CreateDevice	Yes
D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain	Yes
ID3D11Asynchronous	Yes
ID3D11AuthenticatedChannel	Yes
ID3D11BlendState	Yes
ID3D11BlendState1	Yes
ID3D11Buffer	Yes
ID3D11ClassInstance	Yes
ID3D11ClassLinkage	Yes
ID3D11CommandList	No
ID3D11ComputeShader	No
ID3D11Counter	Yes
ID3D11CryptoSession	Yes
ID3D11Debug	Yes	This interface can be used only on devices when the debugger is attached.
ID3D11DepthStencilState	Yes
ID3D11DepthStencilView	Yes
ID3D11Device	Yes
ID3D11Device1	Yes
ID3D11DeviceChild	Yes
ID3D11DeviceContext	Yes
ID3D11DeviceContext1	Yes
ID3D11DomainShader	No
ID3D11GeometryShader	No
ID3D11HullShader	No
ID3D11InfoQueue	Yes	This interface can be used only on devices when the debugger is attached.
ID3D11InputLayout	Yes
ID3D11PixelShader	Yes
ID3D11Predicate	Yes
ID3D11Query	Partially	Supports features included in feature level 9_3.
ID3D11RasterizerState	Yes
ID3D11RasterizerState1	Yes
ID3D11RenderTargetView	Yes
ID3D11Resource	Yes
ID3D11SamplerState	Yes
ID3D11ShaderResourceView	Yes
ID3D11Texture1D	Yes
ID3D11Texture2D	Yes
ID3D11Texture3D	Yes
ID3D11UnorderedAccessView	No
ID3D11VertexShader	Yes
ID3D11VideoContext	Yes
ID3D11VideoDecoder	Yes
ID3D11VideoDecoderOutputView	Yes
ID3D11VideoDevice	Yes
ID3D11VideoProcessor	Yes
ID3D11VideoProcessorEnumerator	Yes
ID3D11VideoProcessorInputView	Yes
ID3D11VideoProcessorOutputView	Yes
ID3D11View	Yes

The following table lists DXGI APIs and whether they are supported on the phone.

API	Is supported	Notes
CreateDXGIFactory	No
CreateDXGIFactory1	Yes	The IDXGIFactory::CreateSwapChain method does not support using a DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC structure with the DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_FLAG_DISPLAY_ONLY flag set.
DXGIGetDebugInterface	Yes	This interface can be used only on devices when the debugger is attached.
IDXGIAdapter	Yes
IDXGIAdapter1	Yes
IDXGIDebug	Yes	This interface can only be used on devices when the debugger is attached.
IDXGIDevice	Yes
IDXGIDevice1	Yes
IDXGIDevice2	Yes
IDXGIDeviceSubObject	Yes
IDXGIFactory	Partially	Interface support details
IDXGIFactory1	Yes
IDXGIFactory2	Partially	Interface support details
IDXGIInfoQueue	Yes
IDXGIKeyedMutex	Yes
IDXGIObject	Yes
IDXGIOutput	Partially	Interface support details
IDXGIOutput1	Partially	Interface support details
IDXGIResource	Yes
IDXGIResource1	Yes
IDXGISurface	Yes
IDXGISurface1	No
IDXGISurface2	Yes
IDXGISwapChain	Partially	Interface support details
IDXGISwapChain1	Partially	Interface support details

The following sections list DXGI interfaces that are partially supported on the phone.

Method	Is supported	Notes
CreateSwapChainForCompositionSurface	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
CreateSwapChainForHwnd	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
CreateSwapChainForCoreWindow	Partially	The DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC1 parameter of this method must set SwapEffect to DXGI_SWAP_EFFECT_DISCARD. The DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC1 parameter of this method must set BufferCount to 1. The DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC1 parameter of this method must set Scaling to DXGI_SCALING_STRETCH or DXGI_SCALING_ASPECT_RATIO_STRETCH. The DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC1 parameter of this method can set the Format to DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM or DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM_SRGB when running on a device, but these formats are not supported on the emulator. The compositor does format validation and if the requested buffer format is not supported, the system will create the buffer using a supported format. If you need to know the actual format of the buffer, query for the format using the following code: `D3D11_TEXTURE2D_DESC backBufferDesc = {0}; backBuffer->GetDesc(&backBufferDesc); backBufferDesc.Format;`
GetSharedResourceAdapeterLuid	Yes
IsWindowedStereoEnabled	No
RegisterOcclusionStatusEvent	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL.
RegisterOcclusionStatusWindow	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL.
RegisterStereoStatusEvent	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL.
RegisterStereoStatusWindow	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL.
UnregisterOcclusionStatus	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL.
UnregisterStereoStatus	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL.

Method	Is supported	Notes
FindClosestMatchingMode	Yes
GetDesc	Yes
GetDisplayModeList	Yes
GetDisplaySurfaceData	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
GetFrameStatistics	No
GetGammaControl	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
GetGammaControlCapabilities	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
ReleaseOwnership	No
SetDisplaySurface	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
SetGammaControl	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
TakeOwnership	No
WaitForVBlank	Yes

Method	Is supported	Notes
DuplicateOutput	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
FindClosestMatchingMode1	Yes
GetDisplayModeList1	Yes
GetDisplaySurfaceData1	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.

Method	Is supported	Notes
GetBuffer	Yes	This method only supports a value of 0 for the first argument, which is a buffer index.
GetContainingOutput	Yes
GetDesc	Yes
GetFrameStatistics	No
GetFullScreenState	Yes
GetLastPresentCount	Yes
Present	Yes
ResizeBuffers	No
ResizeTarget	No
SetFullScreenState	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.

Method	Is supported	Notes
GetBackgroundColor	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
GetDesc1	Yes
GetFullScreenDesc	Yes
GetHwnd	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
GetCoreWindow	Yes
GetRestrictToOutput	Yes
GetRotation	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
IsTemporaryMonoSupported	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
Present1	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
SetBackgroundColor	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.
SetRotation	No	Returns DXGI_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED.

Direct3D apps on Windows Phone can use all of the APIs in the DirectXMath library. For a list of these APIs, see DirectXMath Programming Reference.

The following API sets are entirely unavailable for phone applications.