Re: How do I turn off write combining programatically?

If only I could catch the error, but it just drops right past my requests.

"James Westgate" <jameswestgate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have seen this error when the graphics system is under load, it seems
> to me to be a thread locking/sync issue within the GDI+ subsystem. We dont
> use anything like CreateGraphics etc, just a single graphics object/handle
> on a bitmap. The only thing we can do is catch the error and drop the
> paint request and reissue the request which seems to work.
>
> James
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> "Garry Freemyer" <garryfre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Using C# Visual Studio Net 2003, my screensaver comes up with this
>> amityvillehorrorInvalidOperationException error "Object in use
>> elsewhere", and I can't fix it!
>>
>> I read that a work around is to go to Display
>> Properties/Settings/Advanced/Troubleshooting and change the settings
>> there and it seems that "Write Combining" might be be the culprit. It
>> caches writes to the screen and when the cache is full enough, it send
>> the commands in one batch!
>>
>> This might be why I'm getting this error from h^ell. The error take
>> anywhere from 20 seconds to 18 hours to show up. I can't catch it in a
>> catch clause and I'm so sick of seeing it that I'm ready to erase my
>> screensaver, and my posted sample in sheer disgust and destroy all source
>> code!!!
>>
>> Puhleez!!! Is there a way to turn off this in my program so I don't have
>> to go in and mess up the performance of every game I have just so I don't
>> have to scream and shriek at this error? I don't ever want to see it
>> again!
>>
>> I've seen it at least 80 times, and I'm sick of it!
>>
>> Sorry for the rant, its just that I've fed up with this issue 5 million
>> times over!
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