ATI 5xxx video cards driver bug.

[Gimelstob]

I was having an ATI 4xxx video card and there was no problem at all but i have bug which continues to the IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderTargetData calls from different thread with my ATI 5xxx series. I am using the large surfaces with the resolution of 1920x1080.

[Birdie]

I would suggest you to first of all uninstall the current drivers of your ati then restart your computer. Windows will automatically install its required drivers. You just need to mess around it a little bit and if everything seems to be okay then you may go to an official web site to upgrade it. Now install the latest drivers if it does not works for you then try the driver just older to the latest one.

[Gimelstob]

I did it all as per your suggestions and when wen to an official web site of an ATI then i found that there was newer drivers available then which i was using so i just downloaded them but even those drivers did not worked for me. I am still having the same problem. Please help me somebody.

[ApPy10]

I just gone through the ATI's web site and have found that the there are lot and lot more people who all are having problems with VIA chipsets. Only one useful thing that i found was to install the latest VIA IRQ routing software from an official web site of the VIA. I do not have much ideas about the drivers of video cards but i guess this would helping you in one or an another way.

[Team Leader]

The destination surface should be either at the level of a texture or it should be an off-screen plain surface created with the D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM. The source surface must be a regular render target or a level of a render-target texture (mipmap or cube texture) created with POOL_DEFAULT.

[David23]

The method given in the above posts will get fail because of the following reasons.

• If the render target would be multisampled.
• Difference between size of the source render target and the destination surface.
• Formats of the source render target and destination surface does not matches.

[Archibald]

I suggest you to try the following code.

void CaptureRenderTarget(IDirect3DDevice9* pdev, const TCHAR* path)
{
	IDirect3DSurface9* pTargetSurface=NULL;
	HRESULT hr=pdev->GetRenderTarget(0,&pTargetSurface);
	if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
	{
		D3DSURFACE_DESC desc;
		hr=pTargetSurface->GetDesc(&desc);
		if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
		{
			IDirect3DTexture9* pTempTexture=NULL;
			hr=pdev->CreateTexture(desc.Width,desc.Height,1,0,desc.Format,D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM,&pTempTexture,NULL);
			if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
			{
				IDirect3DSurface9* pTempSurface=NULL;
				hr=pTempTexture->GetSurfaceLevel(0,&pTempSurface);
				if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
				{
					hr=pdev->GetRenderTargetData(pTargetSurface,pTempSurface);
					if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
					{
						D3DXSaveTextureToFile(path,D3DXIFF_PNG,pTempTexture,NULL);
					}
					pTempSurface->Release();
				}
				pTempTexture->Release();
			}
		}
		pTargetSurface->Release();
	}
}