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DX9 debug dlls

Started by AndyM Mar 5, 2003 at 9:44 AM 0 replies 600+ views

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Mar 5, 2003 at 9:44 AM

After installing the DX9 SDK with the debug runtime I can switch between retail and debug D3D in the control-panel DirectX settings - great! But with the retail setting on, will programs still run max speed after doing a debug install as DxDiag shows many debug dlls, some of them appearing not to have non-debug versions of the equivalent DLLs?

cheez_keeper

Mar 5, 2003 at 1:00 PM

afaik when you swap to retail you actually act as if you are running retail. the debug .dlls that don''t have a retail equivilant are never actually called in retail version. but you have me thinking, i never actually have seen microsoft claim the retail with the sdk runs as fast as the retail you get without the sdk. that aside, i run in debug mode most of the time anyway. the performance loss is less than 10% (nearly the same as if they programmed DX using managed code) so if you have a fast enough computer... why waste time switching all the time (plus you can run a game of Heros or Civ or something while programming in between turns!)

Brett Lynnes
cheez_keeper@hotmail.com

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