Pixel Format Error when instantiating GraphicsDevice

MGZero · July 24, 2016, 11:03pm

I have a Windows Forms control that I dug up which allowed XNA to render on a Windows form (I did not write the original control, SpinningTriangleControl was the name of it). I had migrated it over to Monogame some time ago and didn’t have any issues with it until earlier this week. Suddenly when instantiating the GraphicsDevice class, I get the following error:

Requested GraphicsMode not available. SetPixelFormat error: 2000

This is the code that produces it:

GraphicsAdapter adapter = GraphicsAdapter.DefaultAdapter;
GraphicsProfile profile = GraphicsProfile.HiDef;
PresentationParameters pp = new PresentationParameters()
{
DeviceWindowHandle = windowHandle,
BackBufferWidth = Math.Max(width, 1),
BackBufferHeight = Math.Max(height, 1),
};
graphicsDevice = new GraphicsDevice(adapter, profile, pp);

Or on Github if you’d prefer the full file.

github.com

ZFGCCP/kot-mono/blob/mgzero/King of Thieves/GraphicsDeviceService.cs

#region File Description
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// GraphicsDeviceService.cs
//
// Microsoft XNA Community Game Platform
// Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#endregion

#region Using Statements
using System;
using System.Threading;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
#endregion

// The IGraphicsDeviceService interface requires a DeviceCreated event, but we
// always just create the device inside our constructor, so we have no place to
// raise that event. The C# compiler warns us that the event is never used, but
// we don't care so we just disable this warning.
#pragma warning disable 67

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the width and height variables are set to 240 and 256 respectively. I suspect this is actually a graphics driver issue as that’s about the only thing that has changed recently. I’m running a Radeon HD7870 with the Crimson 16.6.2 driver under Windows 7, Visual Studio Express 2013. This exception does not get thrown on my Windows 10 machine, running a Geforce 745 GT M, driver version 10.8.13.6472. This is a WindowsGL project.

wallstop · July 25, 2016, 6:34am

Poking around, this appears to be a driver issue

I downloaded your project and attempted to replicate locally, no dice (everything worked with some small tweaks).

It looks like there’s a new driver version out ahead of 16.6.2. Might want to give that one a whirl and see what for.

MGZero · July 25, 2016, 11:09pm

Sadly, updating the driver did not fix the issue