DirectXTK Alternatives

DirectXTK reviews and mentions

• C++ exception performance three years later
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2024

  Are there any benchmarks of Windows EH? The implementation is very different from DWARF/SJLJ EH and it would be interesting to see how they fare. I've seen some pretty exceptional claims for both sides of the argument (e.g. "[...] has no code impact for x64 native, ARM, or ARM64 platforms" [1]), but there's rarely if ever any data to back this up.

  [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/throwIfFailed

• I need help to make SSE Display Tweaks work.
  1 project | /r/skyrimmods | 9 Oct 2023
• Xenia: Xbox 360 Emulator
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023

  XNA died when the people behind it left, thus the C++ side won once again, and DirectXTK was born as replacement.

  https://walbourn.github.io/directxtk/

  Years later they kind of sponsored Monogame, when they were recovering from XBox One mess,

  https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-i...

  By the way, I think one of these episodes talks about the emulation, but I am not certain if it was on this podcast I heard about it.

  https://theretrohour.com/?s=xbox

• Need help converting wav files to XWB without the wav file names being changed
  1 project | /r/Modding | 2 Jul 2023

  So for the past 8 hours, I've been trying to mod the music files for Bloons Monkey City. I converted some songs I wanted to use in BMC using audacity to wav and made sure to rename the files to the songs I wanted to replace. I used XWBtool to repackage the wav files into an XWB file, the file format BMC uses to store its music in. I used Foobar2000 to view the XMB file, and for whatever reason all the song names get changed to whatever the XWB file name is after repackaging them using XWBtool (I.e. The XWB's file name is whatever the first wav file XWBtool repackages. In my case, "WaveBank#1 (MCity_MvM)" is the first wav file that gets repackaged, so for whatever reason every other file also gets its names changed to "WaveBank#1 (MCity_MvM)," which is causing me a problem as BMC won't be able to read the other music files.).

• Flight Mechanics
  1 project | /r/Starfield | 20 Jun 2023
• Learning DirectX 12 in 2023
  13 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2023

  DirectXTK 12 (includes SimpleMath and other goodies)

• Where can I learn directX
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 21 Dec 2022

  DirectXtutorial doesn't seem to have the greatest C++ code either. I would definitely use ComPtr.

• Where to start learning OpenGL or DirectX11 Graphics Programming with C++?
  4 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 9 Jun 2022

  DirectXTK (basically XNA ported to C++, after it was dropped)

• Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition - How to play with the new graphics BUT with the old fonts
  1 project | /r/JRPG | 10 Apr 2022

  Thank you for your reply, I make spritefont from this link https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/SpriteFont but still cannot show the right font Maybe have to check parameter of old font

• I'm having a hard time staying committed to learning C++ and OpenGL for game development.
  6 projects | /r/cpp | 31 Mar 2022

  Because you get stuff like DirectXTK and PIX from the company that does the API, while on Khronos stuff you need to go hunting for comunity or GPU vendor specific tooling.

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