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Interesting. I remember just plugging in my Sony PS4 Dual Shock controller, putting a breakpoint i…
I decided to kill my previous game idea after I found myself unable to fix several gameplay proble…
Closing threads/handles or releasing allocated memory is done by OS regardless of how process term…
flamaros —
Hi, I found this post really interesting, but there is a point that needs more explications for me…
Seems that improving getting thread names is a known issue:
cphinton —
Thanks, that looks much nicer. Though having tested it, it is supported by a modern version of VS,…
Cannot tell you anything about what Remedy supports. But if you are on Windows 10, you can set thr…
cphinton —
Hello, I am debugging a program with a large number of threads. I would like to give them human-re…
Miles —
I'm well aware that it is possible to mix and match. There is, however, not a straightforward way …
But compiler version is not reliable way to detect what Windows SDK version of headers/libraries y…
Miles —
The compile-time version check is there to hopefully prevent code that relies on new versions of h…
Why SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext is called only for MSVC specific compiler versions (newer than 1…
Miles —
Update: here is an updated function which handles DPI awareness with whatever is the most modern A…
Miles —
An interesting note is that the function does at least have well-defined upper and lower bounds. F…
Thanks for WinRing0, I'll have a look at that at some point. You can rely on rdtsc value on moder…
Ben —
Yeah definitely. I think I may have already put one in as the second block puzzle you encounter. T…
You can do simple tests with reading/writing MSR register with WinRing0 project: It provides preb…
HRose —
Hey everyone, We will be having a subsidiary online London meetup every 2nd Thursday of the month …
After reading the articles linked in this thread, I wanted to try to use only rdtsc to get time in…
about separating the blocks you may wish to add a puzzle where the only solution is to separate th…
Hi everyone, I was wanting to implement something similar to the effect in snakebird where the rai…
BernFeth —
Uh oh... Even more embarassing then... Thanks for answering anyway. I will take a look on WASAPI, …
It says in documentation to what value to set it: I personally would not choose XAudio2 unless y…
BernFeth —
Ah... Thank you mmozeiko, you are absolutely right. This is embarrasing but I have to say I hae no…
Ben —
Since my last blog post I've made some progress across a number of different areas of development.…
You have not set nAvgBytesPerSec and cbSize members of WAVEFORMATEX structure. They probably conta…
Problem with thinking this way is that modern CPU's change frequency dynamically - for power savi…
The result of the two computations would be pretty close because the granularity of would also b…