COMPOSITOR NOT FULL SCREEN WINDOWS

…every so many frames something skips a frame with OpenGL or using D3D9 without this mode on Windows 10. On my system without this mode (called D3DSWAPEFFECT_FLIPEX on D3D9) steady frame rates, regardless of work load, just don’t exist, i.e. will provide a nice GL wrapper for doing this.

If there truly isn’t a much simpler way for an OpenGL application to get Full-Screen Exclusive equivalent capability in Win10 (cutting DWM/compositing overhead/latency completely out-of-the-loop), then I really hope NVidia or one of the vendors will write a nice, clean WGL extension to abstract all this DXGI/D3D12 complexity and let OpenGL apps create a truly maximum performance hardware accelerated window (with associated swap chain) that’ll yield iFlip/iFlip immediate support on Win10+. Related to the link I posted above with Jesse Natalie (Microsoft) talking about these presentation modes, this thread is a worthwhile read (SoldierOfLight is Jesse). Also, I see no references to DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_FLAG_ALLOW_TEARING and DXGI_PRESENT_ALLOW_TEARING, so it appears it’ll only support iFlip (VSync) and not iFlip Immediate (no VSync), but that’s probably an easy add when needed. The DX12 present client shows presenting with DXGI_SWAP_EFFECT_FLIP_DISCARD, but if I understand correctly using either this or FLIP_SEQUENTIAL should support iFlip when all the conditions are fullfilled. That said, I haven’t actually spent anytime profiling this, so I’m not sure what kind of overhead we’re talking about from doing this. So with this it looks like you can render with GL and present with DX12. Supported APIs are GL, DX11, DX12, and Vulkan, with all permutations of render API -> present API supported (except DX11 DX12 no point I guess).

COMPOSITOR NOT FULL SCREEN HOW TO

That’s what I gather from what I’ve seen since anyway.Īlso, I’ve recent found out that NVidia has a graphics API interop sample that shows how to render with one API and present with another API. One correction: I think “iFlip” (Independent Flip) is more the analog to Full-Screen Exclusive (FSE) with SwapInterval(1) (VSync), whereas “iFlip Immediate” is more like FSE with SwapInterval(0) (i.e. The priority on this issue hasn’t been very high, so no I haven’t done much with this.

Compositor not full screen