Questions about games development on and for Windows 8 OS. It is rather specific because of new style (Metro) applications (which are distributed exclusively thru Windows Store) and new WinRT runtime library.
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Error instantiating Texture2D in MonoGame for Windows 8 Metro Apps
I have an game which builds for WindowsGL and Windows8. The WindowsGL works fine, but the Windows8 build throws an error when trying to instantiate a new Texture2D.
The Code:
var texture = new ...
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Has anyone got the Krypton Lighting Engine working in MonoGame for Windows 8?
I've converted the core of the Krypton Lighting Engine so that it's compatible with Windows 8.
The trouble I'm having when actually using it is that it can't load the KryptonEffect.xnb file. I'm ...
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Geometry shaders on Surface RT
Can anyone tell me if geometry shaders are supported on the Microsoft Surface RT? On one hand, MSDN makes it sound like the Surface RT supports only feature level 9_1, and geometry shaders are only ...
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Shaders Working in XNA but not Monogame Win8
Hey so I'm bringing a shader over from XNA to Win8. To test things I'm using josack's tutorial on pixel shaders:
http://blog.josack.com/2011/07/xna-2d-dynamic-lighting.html
I've got it running in my ...
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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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Direct3d Techniques and Windows 8
Under Windows 8, what is the alternative to this code:
technique11 Light0Tex
{
pass P0
{
...
technique11 Light1Tex
{
pass P0
{
...
And:
Light1Tech = ...
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Cocos2d-xna memory management for WP8
I recently upgraded to VS2012 and try my in dev game out on the new WP8 emulators but was dismayed to find out the emulator now crashes and throws an out of memory exception during my sprite loading ...
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Setting up cocos2d-x-win8
just trying to use cocos2d-x for the first time developing metro-style games for Windows8. I followed the webpage instructions and got the following error in Visual Studio
1>------ Build started: ...
