Feature Request - WPF Add DirectX Accelerated rendering

[amaitland]

Now that #2527 has been implemented we should look at adding DirectX Accelerated rendering to the WPF implementation.

This will likely be disabled by default initially and depending on the additional libraries/dependencies required might be a Nuget package of its own.

WPF is DirectX 9 and the CEF OnAcceleratedPaint implementation is DirectX 11 only. Microsoft provide some D3D11 examples at https://github.com/Microsoft/WPFDXInterop thought they haven't been updated in years.

I personally have no experience with DirectX so I'm looking for volunteers to help out.

Please only comment if you are interested and capable of helping, there is currently no set time frame for this.

[amaitland]

Chromium changes are likely to break OnAcceleratedPaint in the near future, see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2575/viz-implementation-for-osr for details

[Ratcha9]

I don't get it. Is viz compatible with direct x?
Hope they will reimplement shared textures...

[alphamax]

Hello,

I get onboard a bit late but I keep an eye on this subject.
I tried to make OnAcceleratedPaint called on the abstract Render handler and it does not work.
I properly sent "shared-texture-enabled", "1" in the command line and windowInfo.SharedTextureEnabled = true; on CreateOffscreenBrowserWindowInfo.

(PS, I have one of the latest master version)

Any idea on what I am failing?

Once this part called, I think I may succeed in filling the gap.

Thanks,
Regards,

[amaitland]

I properly sent "shared-texture-enabled", "1"

Pretty sure that's only for testing with cefclient.

windowInfo.SharedTextureEnabled = true; on CreateOffscreenBrowserWindowInfo.

Please post the code you've used.

(PS, I have one of the latest master version)

If you are going to reference master then please provide a link to the commit you've used. I merged a huge number of changes just two days ago, maybe your using an older build?

[alphamax]

Thanks for your quick response.
I have tested with the latest version of today => this commit
The code you requested is:

    protected virtual IWindowInfo CreateOffscreenBrowserWindowInfo(IntPtr handle)
    {
        var windowInfo = new WindowInfo();
        windowInfo.SetAsWindowless(handle);
        windowInfo.SharedTextureEnabled = true;
        return windowInfo;
    }

I do not break either inside RenderClientAdapter.h > OnAcceleratedPaint.
Maybe I have missed something to go through AcceleratedPaint.

Thanks,

[amaitland]

A very quick test and OnAcceleratedPaint is called as expected with f77c6d2

Double check your debugger is set correctly, try attaching to the managed c# implementation.

[amaitland]

OnAcceleratedPaint no longer works as it's been temp removed from CEF, see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2575/viz-implementation-for-osr#comment-53013860

[alphamax]

Noticed 😭

[kkwpsv]

Now, I have made OnAcceleratedPaint basically work with CEF 73. But OnAcceleratedPaint was broken with newer CEF . If OnAcceleratedPaint would be fixed later without too many changes, I'll make a pr for this.

The performance of OnAcceleratedPaint is better than OnPaint, but it doesn't seem to be as good as native CEF.

[amaitland]

There is a PR to re-implement the feature in CEF. Subscribe to
https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/pull-requests/285 to keep updated with the latest.

[alphamax]

Ok, perfect, I'll follow it !
Thanks for the update !