error when I run on windows 8

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error when I run on windows 8 #22

Closed yoyo-sincerely closed 5 years ago

yoyo-sincerely commented 6 years ago

hello. I run command

cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ..

on win 8 then when I run editor project, I get an error:

Exception thrown: read access violation.
this->m_factory-> was 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF1F.

It is happen in file dxgi.cpp line 409.

hr = m_factory->CheckFeatureSupport(DXGI_FEATURE_PRESENT_ALLOW_TEARING, &allowTearing, sizeof(allowTearing) );

How can I fix the problem?

the stack is :

volcoma commented 6 years ago

Hey is there something logged in the console or in the log file in the executable folder? Seems like it couldn't init the dxgi factory for some reason. What's your graphics hardware?