Creating a Device (Direct3D 9)

To create a Direct3D device, first create a Direct3D object (see Direct3DCreate9). All rendering devices created by a Direct3D object share the same physical resources. If you create multiple rendering devices from a single Direct3D object, extreme performance penalties will be incurred because they share the same hardware.

First, initialize values for the D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS structure that is used to create the Direct3D device. The following code example specifies a windowed application where the back buffer is copied to the front buffer during a vertical sync operation only.

LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 d3dDevice = NULL;

D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS d3dpp; 

ZeroMemory( &d3dpp, sizeof(d3dpp) );
d3dpp.Windowed   = TRUE;
d3dpp.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_COPY;

Next, create the Direct3D device. The following IDirect3D9::CreateDevice call specifies the default adapter, a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) device, and software vertex processing.

if( FAILED( g_pD3D->CreateDevice( D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, hWnd,
                                    D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING,
                                    &d3dpp, &d3dDevice ) ) )
    return E_FAIL;

Note that a call to create, release, or reset the device should happen only on the same thread as the window procedure of the focus window.

After creating the device, set its state.

Related topics

Direct3D Devices