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Started by dynamicman Oct 11, 2001 at 5:53 PM 3 replies 300+ views

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Oct 11, 2001 at 5:53 PM

Hi, I''m new to the forum but here goes my question... I''ve initialized DirectX and when I close the application I delete the draw device and object (in that order)... I trace the application to the end when it jumps out of WinMain and for some reason a thread returns -1..... There seems to be two threads running (but I don''t use threads in my program)... Direct3D8: (INFO) :======================= Hal SWVP device selected Direct3D8: (INFO) :Using P3 PSGP The thread 0xFFF8E367 has exited with code -1 (0xFFFFFFFF). The thread 0xFFF65A0F has exited with code 0 (0x0). Can anybody tell me why this happens? I thought it was my directx code but I DO properly release them when they are not being used... I''m stumped.. Thanks in advance!

dynamicman

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dynamicman

Oct 11, 2001 at 5:57 PM

and then it dissapears... weird..... seems random.... I''ve stripped my program to the bare minumum but its still kinda random...... huh.....

dynamicman

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dynamicman

Oct 11, 2001 at 5:57 PM

and then it dissapears... weird..... seems random.... I''ve stripped my program to the bare minumum but its still kinda random...... huh.....

WarMachine

Oct 11, 2001 at 6:22 PM

DX uses its own threads, and they mostly return -1, even if nothing is wrong, so if everything seems to be working, don''t worry about it, it happens to everyone using DX.

Lotan

Oct 11, 2001 at 6:32 PM

I had the same problem for a long time, and searched for the answer, but could never get one. What I noticed was that if my program ran for awhile the thread would exit a few seconds into it and return 0. What is even weirder is that while my game was running, I could sometimes notice a little stutter/slow down when it exited.

If I remember correctly, if I ran in Release mode, it didn''t appear to be there.

Also, when I switched to developing in Windows 2000, the problem went away.

I''m sure none of this helps, but I wanted to let you know that you''re not alone.

Lotan

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