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Exclusive mouse movement with WM_INPUT

Microsoft seems to recommend using WM_INPUT for input. I want to only get relative mouse input and hide the mouse cursor all together for a short while (For gesture based input). However, using ...
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Moving the camera as in a first person shooter

I am trying to implement the movement of the camera with the mouse. The result I want to achieve is the same that you get when you move your aim in a first person shooter. Here is the code I wrote, ...
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Access violation when playing mp3 using DirectShow

I have reopened one older project that uses DirectShow for audio playback. Before, I would compile and run it on Windows 7 using MVStudio 2010 without trouble, now I have Windows 8 and MVStudio 2012 ...
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D3D/DXGI handle fullscreen transition

I have a D3D11 application, and I want to add proper fullscreen suport. Now I can let DXGI switch my window to fullscreen for me, and I'm under the impression that DXGI will take care of everything ...
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How to properly check if an OpenGL version is available

I can't find any information on glCreateContextAttribsARB returning errors if a version is unsuported by the driver. So how do i check if it is? I don't want the program to hard crash because ...
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Multiple buffering in OpenGL on Windows

What is the most common way modern games perform triple buffering ? What does the SwapBuffers exactly do in terms of OpenGL states ? Is it possible to perform double and triple buffering ...
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3D rotation math/code for plane

I am making a simple 3D game with plane in space. With c++ (win32). But the plane rotation is not realistic. The code I am using for the rotation is the following: point3D AxisRotation(point3D ...
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Creating a full-screen window in Windows API

I've got a Windows API Window. I've managed to make it windowed, and "fullscreen windowed". But I can't seem to make the window just full-screen- for example, even if I specify WS_POPUP, I can still ...