2010-12-27, 05:11 PM
Yesterday the D3D9 fonts began disappearing after playing for a little while. I was a bit disheartened / clueless what could be going on.
Anyway, this morning I kinda went thru the fonts related code to see what I could do. I'm still not sure what is going on, but adding some error handling code which basically rebuilds the fonts on failure, and partitioning the fonts so they don't share each others resources, seems to have hardened things. My guess is my graphics card is just chronically out of memory or something (until restart) though it may be there is a real resource error somewhere. Anyway, it's a good deal this prob was recognized/stabilized before too late.
My latest MXM graphics module may be showing signs of degradation (as its line is known to do) ... if it burns up like the last I'll probably just have to keep finding new ones until they're no longer available or something else gives
Anyway, this morning I kinda went thru the fonts related code to see what I could do. I'm still not sure what is going on, but adding some error handling code which basically rebuilds the fonts on failure, and partitioning the fonts so they don't share each others resources, seems to have hardened things. My guess is my graphics card is just chronically out of memory or something (until restart) though it may be there is a real resource error somewhere. Anyway, it's a good deal this prob was recognized/stabilized before too late.
My latest MXM graphics module may be showing signs of degradation (as its line is known to do) ... if it burns up like the last I'll probably just have to keep finding new ones until they're no longer available or something else gives