Determines whether a surface format is available as a specified resource type and can be used as a texture, depth stencil buffer, render target, or any combination of the three, on a device representing the current adapter.

Overload List

public static bool CheckDeviceFormat(int, DeviceType, Format, Usage, ResourceType, DepthFormat);

public static bool CheckDeviceFormat(int, DeviceType, Format, Usage, ResourceType, DepthFormat, out int);

public static bool CheckDeviceFormat(int, DeviceType, Format, Usage, ResourceType, Format);

public static bool CheckDeviceFormat(int, DeviceType, Format, Usage, ResourceType, Format, out int);

How Do I...?

Check For HDR Texture Support

This example demonstrates how to check a device to determine whether a specific texture format is supported.

In the following C# code example, device is assumed to be the rendering Device, and the adapterFormat variable is assumed to be a valid member of the Format enum.

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// check support for a Format.A16B16R16F render target
if (!Manager.CheckDeviceFormat(0, DeviceType.Hardware, adapterFormat,
                                  Usage.RenderTarget, ResourceType.CubeTexture,
                                  Format.A16B16G16R16F))
    return true;
else
    return false;