IDirect3D9

Applications use the methods of the IDirect3D9 interface to create Microsoft Direct3D objects and set up the environment. This interface includes methods for enumerating and retrieving capabilities of the device.

IDirect3D9 Members

Method	Description
IDirect3D9::CheckDepthStencilMatch	Determines whether a depth-stencil format is compatible with a render-target format in a particular display mode.
IDirect3D9::CheckDeviceFormat	Determines whether a surface format is available as a specified resource type and can be used as a texture, depth-stencil buffer, or render target, or any combination of the three, on a device representing this adapter.
IDirect3D9::CheckDeviceFormatConversion	Tests the device to see if it supports conversion from one display format to another.
IDirect3D9::CheckDeviceMultiSampleType	Determines if a multisampling technique is available on this device.
IDirect3D9::CheckDeviceType	Verifies whether a hardware accelerated device type can be used on this adapter.
IDirect3D9::CreateDevice	Creates a device to represent the display adapter.
IDirect3D9::EnumAdapterModes	Queries the device to determine whether the specified adapter supports the requested format and display mode. This method could be used in a loop to enumerate all the available adapter modes.
IDirect3D9::GetAdapterCount	Returns the number of adapters on the system.
IDirect3D9::GetAdapterDisplayMode	Retrieves the current display mode of the adapter.
IDirect3D9::GetAdapterIdentifier	Describes the physical display adapters present in the system when the IDirect3D9 interface was instantiated.
IDirect3D9::GetAdapterModeCount	Returns the number of display modes available on this adapter.
IDirect3D9::GetAdapterMonitor	Returns the handle of the monitor associated with the Direct3D object.
IDirect3D9::GetDeviceCaps	Retrieves device-specific information about a device.
IDirect3D9::RegisterSoftwareDevice	Registers a pluggable software device. Software devices provide software rasterization enabling applications to access a variety of software rasterizers.

Remarks

The IDirect3D9 interface is obtained by calling the Direct3DCreate9 function.

The LPDIRECT3D9 and PDIRECT3D9 types are defined as pointers to the IDirect3D9 interface.

typedef struct IDirect3D9 *LPDIRECT3D9, *PDIRECT3D9;

See Also

D3D Interfaces

Requirements

Header: Declared in D3D9.h.

Library: Use D3d9.lib.