I am new to directx, and I am trying to understand why do we need to lock surface before we can manipulate it? Can anyone help me explain?
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I am new to directx, and I am trying to understand why do we need to lock surface before we can manipulate it? Can anyone help me explain?
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Locksurfaces and buffers in order to tell the GPU, that you are manipulating these resources. These are necessary to syncronize the GPU and the program running on the CPU.