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How do you determine if WPF is using Hardware or Software Rendering?

Asked 2008-09-29T17:29:00.090
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I'm benchmarking a WPF application on various platforms and I need an easy way to determine if WPF is using hardware or software rendering.

I seem to recall a call to determine this, but can't lay my hands on it right now.

Also, is there an easy, code based way to force one rendering pipeline over the other?

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.NET 4.0 provides the ability to force software rendering in code:

public partial class App : Application 
{    
    protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)    
    {         
        if (WeThinkWeShouldRenderInSoftware())            
            RenderOptions.ProcessRenderMode = RenderMode.SoftwareOnly;    
    }
}

See this post for more information.

answered 2010-05-19T15:56:04.933

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