Tag: direct3d

Code / February 1, 2014

Direct3D – Optimizing for different hardware

by Lawrence

When your project is nearing completion, it’s time to look at optimization. For Direct3D, this typically means grouping and reordering of things to make the hardware work as efficiently as possible. For Direct3D 9, Microsoft have published a handy guide of things to look at optimizing here. But it’s interesting to look at the difference these

Code / January 25, 2014

Sometimes it’s the driver

by Lawrence

Consider this pseudocode: Is there a memory leak in the above code? This is just pseudocode, so I’m not trying to be tricky with syntax and I haven’t omitted any key steps in init or shutdown. The answer I should get is “no”. And yet, in reality, the answer is “maybe”. All the code does