Programming 2D Games

693.11. Determining Device Capabilities

• *pCaps. Pointer to a D3DCAPS9 structure that is lled in by this function with the

device capabilities.

We will add this function to our initialize function in graphics.cpp. If the device

supports hardware vertex processing, we will use it. e new initialize function can be

seen in Listing 3.28.

//========================================================================

// Initialize DirectX graphics

// Throws GameError on error

//========================================================================

void Graphics::initialize(HWND hw, int w, int h, bool full)

{

hwnd = hw;

width = w;

height = h;

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