Device.Device Constructor ()
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- Maintain Floating Point Precision after Device Creation
Initializes a new instance of the current class.
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The device has been lost but cannot be reset at this time. Therefore, rendering is not possible.
The method call is invalid. For example, a method's parameter may have an invalid value.
This device does not support the queried technique.
Direct3D does not have enough display memory to perform the operation.
This constructor creates a fully functional device object that is set to the required display mode (or windowed mode) and allocated with the appropriate back buffers. To begin rendering, the application needs only to create and set a depth buffer (assuming EnableAutoDepthStencil is false in PresentParameters).
Note that the HardwareVertexProcessing, MixedVertexProcessing, and SoftwareVertexProcessing vertex flags are mutually exclusive, and that at least one must be specified when calling this method.
Back buffers created as part of the device are lockable only if LockableBackBuffer is specified in PresentParameters. Multisampled back buffers and depth surfaces are never lockable.
The Device.Reset and Device.TestCooperativeLevel methods must be called from the same thread that used this method to create a device.
The Format.Unknown type can be specified for the windowed mode back-buffer format when calling Device, Device.Reset, and SwapChain.SwapChain(Device, PresentParameters) (the constructor override for creating a new swap chain). This means the application does not have to query the current desktop format before calling Device for windowed mode. For full-screen mode, the back-buffer format must be specified.
The Device method fails if an attempt is made to create a device on a 0x0-sized window.
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Maintain Floating Point Precision after Device Creation
When a Device object is created, the common language runtime will change the floating-point unit (FPU) to single precision to maintain better performance. To maintain the default double precision FPU, which is default for the common language runtime, use the CreateFlags.FpuPreserve flag when creating a Device object as in the sample code below.
[C#] Device device = null; // Create rendering device PresentParameters presentParams = new PresentParameters(); device = new Device(0, DeviceType.Hardware, this, CreateFlags.SoftwareVertexProcessing | CreateFlags.FpuPreserve, presentParams);
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