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Direct3D Samples Setup Guide

This guide will help you with the setup of your host machine in order to properly build and run the the D3D samples.

Please ensure your system meets the D3D Samples Prerequisites before proceeding further. Especially important is having the DirectX SDK pre-installed.

Installing and Building D3D Samples

1. Unzip the samples pack to a directory on the Windows Host PC. We will call this directory SAMPLES_ROOT.
2. Launch Visual Studio 2010 or 2012.
3. Open the all-samples project file: {SAMPLES_ROOT}/samples/build/vs201[0,2]win32/AllSamples.sln.
4. Build the solution as release or debug.
5. The resulting apps will be placed in {SAMPLES_ROOT}/samples/bin/vs201[0,2]x86/.

Common Build and Runtime Errors

• On Windows 7, running some of the samples may show a dialog indicating that XINPUT1_4.DLL could not be found.

  This can generally be solved as follows:

1. Right-click the failing sample's icon in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click Linker.
4. Click Input.
5. Find xinput.lib in the list.
6. Replace xinput.lib with xinput9_1_0.lib.
7. Rebuild the sample.

• On Windows 8.1, the debug mode samples may fail or crash in the device creation. Generally, this is caused by some issue creating a debug device. There are several options for fixing or working around this:

• Ensure that the system has the Windows 8.1 SDK installed.
• Review the options listed in this Windows development posting.
• Change the debug mode device to a non-debug device. Search the samples source tree for instances of D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG and replace the enumerant with 0.

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