Topics about games made for Microsoft Windows products. These include Windows 7, Vista, XP.
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What is the future of XNA in Windows 8 or how will manged games be developed in Windows 8?
I know this is a potential dupe of this question, but the last answer there was 18 months ago and a lot has happened since.
There seems to be some uncertainty about XNA in Windows 8. Specifically, ...
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Cross Platform 2D Graphics Engines [closed]
I'm looking for a 2D graphics engine that would allow me to release to Windows, Mac and the iPhone, much the way Unity does for 3D.
Is there a good engine that does this and is specific to 2D?
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Is it safe to use Sleep() in game loop (on Windows)?
Is it safe to use Sleep() function on Windows in game loop (C++)? I want to have fixed frame rate.
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Can we develop a game for iPhone on Windows platform?
Is it possible by any means to have a game developed for iPhone using the iPhone sdk on Windows?
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3D game engines for XNA games
Before I start development of an XNA game, I need to choose a 3D game engine to develop upon. Is this belief unfounded? Does XNA have basic object transformation, lighting and mesh/texture importing ...
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Display a Message Box over a Full Screen DirectX application
In our custom assertion handler, I'd like to display a message box asking to see whether or not this failure can be ignored. However, when our DirectX game is full screen, I can't get the MessageBox ...
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How does one write to another process's OpenGL/DirectX context?
I want to write a short of chat client that display the messages in-game (OpenGL/DirectX), but I really don't know how to handle this.
It is easy to write my client in my graphic context... but what ...
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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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Does Unity for PC use Direct3D or OpenGL?
I am a mac developer using Unity and I hardly use a PC. When you build a Unity game for Windows, does it use Direct3D or OpenGL?
P.S. I'm not sure if it's called Direct3D or DirectX
