because I think minimal MSAA usage could give me a better performance in my scene, only my grass effect that is required MSAA. Other things like world and models don't have to use MSAA if I could copy the data over I might gain some performance over things that doesn't require MSAA (I found AMD paper said this, but I have no ...

Personally, I think F.Luna DX10 book is pretty much the best one in the market. From then, using GPU Gems (NVIDIA SDK Examples) or ShaderX series will help you strengthen your knowledge. Or else, there a bunch of good DX10 white papers on AMD and Intel websites. :)

fxc is in your DXSDK folder, you could just point it to the correct path statically. just right click on .fx file -> change the property hope this helps :)

using effect pool will help improving the performance indeed. I have my performance project that render more than 300k scene objects including particles animations Effect pool helps me a lot, for example camera information, frame time and etc. all stuff that you want to share among entities Answering your question, Effect will not ...

I know that we use ResolveSubresource() in order to move the data from MSAA buffer to SS buffer. Alternatively, what function I need to use in order to move the data from SS buffer to MS buffer? Here's my situation, I have a scene that I want to render normal scene + MSAA grassblades + HDR MSAA postprocessing atm, all ...

try set your Rasterizer stage into "No Culling"

Let take the simplest case, the static model first, in DXUT, you can create Direct3D9NullRef device by one of their functions, which you can save the return device for using with any of D3DX9 function such as LoadfromX() and etc. then, you need to copy the data from ID3DXMesh into your ID3DX10Mesh finally, render your ID3DX10Mesh ...

Hi, I have an array of VBs and IBs that come from the different part of my meshes, and I want to merge parts of them in order to use with my DrawInstanced() later What DX10 functions that is the most efficient ones where I can use to copy the ID3D10Buffer around? Here's some of my approaches, Please feel free to give out any ...

look promising. I'm going to try your approach today! thanks ;D

I have the same problem. :( I'm not sure it's because part of my application is using DX9NullReference Device? If you cannot get PIX to work, you might want to try NVperfHUD from NVidia website. There's a bit of code to modify but it's worthwhile