Re: Profiing windows apps

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012, 17:29:23 schrieb Ralph Little:
> Hi,
> I'm looking at bug #9672 again in the The Sims.
> The app crashes early on during initialisation in DirectDraw. The problem
> occurs after CreateSurface returns an error, since it would appear that the
> DDSURFACEDESC passed into the call is foobar. This would lead me to
> conclude that something on the lead up to that call is precipitating that
> rogue call.
> From looking at the bug report(ddsurfacedesc.ddpfPixelFormat.dwFlags = 0) I

think it's worth writing a test to see how Windows responds to the 
CreateSurface call before spending too much time debugging this. It is quite 
possible that Windows creates the surface just fine.