Managing textures...

i doubt it, but try messing with the D3DPOOL_x when you create them

Using the CreateTextureFromFileEx I''ve created my textures in POOL_DEFAULT, but to no avail....
It is strange, since I''m using 1 video card for the 2 devices, which means that the video card SHOULD have the texture in it''s memory. Why can''t it use it?

Why are you using two devices?

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I just wanted to see if I could use 2 devices, to give different points of view to the same enviroment....

Aight, since this is the DirectX forum, might I recommend NOT talking about OpenGL? And BTW, DirectX rulez

Anyway, if you''re looking to give different views of the same environment, just change the view/proj matrices and change the render target (like if you''re making an editor or similar; it even works well with portals!) Well, every device is essentially ''new memory'' so I doubt that you can share between two of them... And the device only MOVES stuff on the video card; the video card has no idea what belongs to what, just what to render

Good luck!

Chris Pergrossi
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Original post by ItaySagui
I just wanted to see if I could use 2 devices, to give different points of view to the same enviroment....

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If you want to render to different windows, or different viewpoints, i suggest you use swapchains, rather than multiple devices, as DX isnt to keen on you doing that.
Unfortunatly, the Microsoft provided help is a bit crap so have a look here, http://www.fairyengine.com/, under articles and CreateAdditionalSwapChain(...)

There not hard to use, once you get past all the jargon, and that should solve your texture problem too.



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A hidden quote in the Dx SDK docs:

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Note All rendering devices created by a given Microsoft® Direct3D® object share the same physical resources. Although your application can create multiple rendering devices from a single Direct3D object, because they share the same hardware, extreme performance penalties will be incurred.

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In other words, DONT

Yeah, if you want ot render the same scene from different angles, just use viewports and change your view and projection matrices.

If you want to render in another window, use additional swapchains.

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