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Locking surfaces after restoring them

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by CGameProgrammer September 13, 1999 10:32 PM

-1 comments, last by CGameProgrammer 24 years, 9 months ago

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September 13, 1999 10:32 PM

After the surface memory is lost, and restored (with lpDDS->Restore() and the ddutil.cpp function DDReLoadBitmap), locking the surface no longer works. It gives me a DDERR_SURFACELOST error. But it's wrong, because Blt, BltFast, and GetDC work perfectly fine.

Any ideas why this is happening?

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