Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Checking Device Capabilities

For every possible thing a device can do that may or may not be capable of happening purely in hardware, there is an item called a “capability,” or “Cap” for short. There is a Caps structure in the Direct3D runtime that lists every possible capability a device can have. Once a device is created, you can use the “Caps” property of the device to determine the features it supports, but if you want to know the features the device can support before you've created it, then what? Naturally, there is a method in the Manager class that can help here as well.

Now to add a little code to our existing application that will get the capabilities of each adapter in our system. We can't add the list of capabilities to the current ...