I downloaded the new SDK (7.1) for Windows Phone 7 development. When I try to run a Silverlight application I get a message telling me my graphics card isn't supported so the experience is downgraded. I can't run XNA programs at all.
I have a GeForce 6600 family card, which I thought would be good enough but I guess not. Can anyone tell me some graphics cards that are suitable that are also inexpensive and will support dual monitors at 1920*1280?
The Windows Phone Emulator requires a DirectX 10 or later graphics card with WDDM 1.1 driver. AFAIK the latest certified drivers (certainly for Windows 7) for the GeForce 6600 family of graphics cards fit these requirements, so you may just need to update your drivers.
Did you have the newest graphic card drivers installed? I can run XNA games (tested with a Windows phone) on a Intel onboard graphics (Intel HD3200 I think).
If the driver doesn't help choose from a current card or the previous generation. How much many do you want to spend?
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Is Direct3D 12 supported on Windows 10 Mobile (phone)? I've recently upgrade my personal project to Direct3D 12 under the impression that it runs on all versions of Windows 10 Universal Apps. My phone ran my old Direct3D 11.1 code just fine, but D3D12CreateDevice() fails with the error that the specified feature level (11_0, 11_1, 12_0, or 12_1) or interface (ID3D12Device) is not supported. Am I doing something wrong, or is D3D12 really not supported on phones? If it isn't supported, will it ever be? I don't mind just developing on PC for now, but I'd rather know now it will never be supported.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn899228(v=vs.85).aspx says:
Direct3D 12 provides four main benefits
[...], and cross-platform development for a
Windows 10 device (PC, tablet, console or phone).
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn899118(v=vs.85).aspx says:
To program with Direct3D 12, you need these components:
A hardware platform with a Direct3D 12-compatible GPU
Display drivers that support the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0
I am looking to implement the use of a Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Ready device (Polar H6/H7 Heart Rate Sensors) in my application. I am forced to target Windows 7 OS. However, I'm only seeing Windows 8 support for Smart Ready devices. I will not be able to upgrade clients to windows 8 in order to use these devices.
The first problem I found is that Windows 7 does not even see the device in order to pair with it. This might be the dongle I'm using. I have tried 2 different ones. The first is a CSR V4.0 (I'm not sure the actual model number). The second is StarTech USBBT1EDR4. Both seem to be using a CSR chipsets. Maybe I should try a different chipset based dongle? Such as Broadcom or TI?
I do see and can pair with the device with my Windows 8.1 Surface Pro.
Is there no way to get Bluetooth Smart implementation for Windows 7 OS platform?
I've recently faced the same problems! I need to run an application in o older version of windows (win xp) and I cannot find any support to that with my dongle (one based in broadcom bcm20702).
What I've found is that windows prior to windows 8, has no bluetooth low energy support, so you would not be able to use the windows bluetoth stack, and broadcom doesn't have a sdk for BLE (I've contacted them, and they said it).
So I've looked for other alternatives and BlueGiga bluetooth 4.0 dongle has a C SDK that you can use to develop your applications in Windows XP and 7. In that page (after register) you can find all the documentation you need.
I've also found a C# Wrapper and a Java Wrapper to its API.
Hope it can help.
[EDIT] : just received my dongle, tried it with win XP and it worked. Guess this is a solution for you also!
Strange thing is, I installed windows 10 and I could use bluetooth smart from my Logitech MX master mouse, but I had to go back to windows 7 because of display drivers and now it does not support it anymore. Windows 7 does not support smart bluetooth. It's just a driver I would presume, but Logitech does not provide it.
I find it realy strange that the old bluetooth device in my laptop worked fine with bluetooth smart devices in Windows 10 but in windows 7 it can only connect to plain old bluetooth devices.
Does Kinect for windows v2 work on mac pro using windows 8.1 that is running on top of Parallels?
Considering Kinects v2's minimum hardware requirements below (copied from this MSDN blogs), it is not possible for windows 8/8.1 running on top of Parallels to recognize and run Kinect v2. The latest version of parallels v10, as of the time of this answer, only supports DirectX 10 which is below the minimum requirement. I have tried it myself, but no success even with Parallels Gaming Mode. Moreover, in order for Kinect to be recognized you need the full USB 3.0 bandwidth.
Alternative solution as discussed inthis MSDN blog, is to use WindowsToGo or by installing Windows using boot camp.
Kinects v2 minimum required capabilities:
64 bit (x64) processor
4 GB Memory (or more)
I7 3.1Ghz (or higher)
Built-in USB 3.0 host controller (Intel or Renesas chipset).
If you’re adding USB 3.0 functionality to your existing PC through an adapter, please ensure that it is a Windows 8 compliant device and that it supports Gen-2. See the troubleshooting section of Getting Started for more information.
DX11 capable graphics adapter (see list of known good adapters below)
Intel HD 4400 integrated display adapter
ATI Radeon HD 5400 series
ATI Radeon HD 6570
ATI Radeon HD 7800 (256bit GDDR5 2GB/1000Mhz)
NVidia Quadro 600
NVidia GeForce GT 640
NVidia GeForce GTX 660
NVidia Quadro K1000M
A Kinect v2 sensor, which includes a power hub and USB cabling.
I have a core2duo desktop computer with 256 mb of graphics card & 2GHz cpu. But wp7 emulator is not running when I start debugging my application. Kindly tell me what are the emulator's graphics card requirements except of those mention on MSDN.
ALL the requirements of the emulator are specified on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff626524(v=vs.92).aspx
If you think your machiine meets all the requirements but it's still not working it may be a driver issue or your processor may not support HAV.
I am fairly new at windows 7 graphics creation. My understanding is that all Windows phone 7 and Windows tablet graphics should be created at 96 ppi, not 72 like iPhone and android. Is this correct?
The sample graphics from windows and also another icon pack seem to support this idea as does this article (even though it's older):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/expression/archive/2007/10/31/trick-or-treat-resolution-96-ppi.aspx
Before moving forward, I just want to make sure I don't have any wrong ideas about Windows phone/tablet graphics.
Thanks in advance for any responses!
Sticking to 96dpi shouldn't give you any problems on Windows or Windows Phone 7.
While not a wrong idea about graphics you do potentially have a wrong idea about Windows Phone (7) being comparable to a tablet:
Widnows Phone 7.0 (& 7.1) OS(es) are not and will never be tablet operating systems. All existing Windows based devices which are advertised as "tablets" either run a version of Windows (XP, Vista or 7) or are based on Windows CE.
If you try and create images which you can use across all of them without modification you are likely to run into issues.