Debugging | GameDev.net

Original Post

Jan 6, 2003 at 3:26 AM

Anyone knows a good way to debug in a directX game? My game is a little windowd directdraw program. Currently I print to a popup window, but this is not a good way. Especially in loops... :-) I''m using DirectX 8.1 and Visual Studio 6... Regards, Mattias

LordShade

Jan 6, 2003 at 3:35 AM

OutputDebugString is your friend.

Or write to a log file. Log files are especially useful in Retail builds that have problems.

Alan Kemp

Jan 6, 2003 at 6:37 AM

If your game is windowed you should be able to debug a directx game the same way you would debug any other application. Read up on using the MSVC debugger (I don''t have any good links to hand, maybe someone else does?).

Alan

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