Re: [GD-Windows] Windows paints my window!

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

In article <9EA...@ma...>,
    "Grills, Jeff" <jg...@so...>  writes:

> There is an issue between some drivers and the D3D runtime which will cause
> D3D to return invalid pointers when you lock resources.  This is apparently
> not fixable in the drivers, so it has to be worked around in the app.  We
> see this a lot filling dynamic vertex buffers.  You can use IsBadWritePtr()
> or some other exception handling technique to deal with this.  Hopefully DX9
> will fix this.

I thought this was discussed on the DirectXDev list a while back --
the workaround was to be more picky about when and where you call into
Windows.
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