From my previous post, I talked about troubleshooting WPF graphic issues. One of those options is to set a registry key to enable software rendering for WPF on that machine only. But that can be an intrusive setting and may not suit everyone’s needs.
There is a another option, which is to enable software rendering in code. If you are working on .NET 3.5 framework, there’s a way to set that up..unfortunately you have to set that up per window or per target control. But might be useful for those that want to selectively tweak rendering mode for each window.
private void ConfigureSoftwareRendering()
{
if (shouldEnableSoftwareRendering)
{
HwndSource hwndSource = PresentationSource.FromVisual(this) as HwndSource;
HwndTarget hwndTarget = hwndSource.CompositionTarget;
hwndTarget.RenderMode = RenderMode.SoftwarewareOnly;
}
}
If you’re developing in .NET 4 framework, then you have another option, which is to set up software rendering per process….like so.
public partial class App : Application
{
protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
{
if (shouldEnableSoftwareRendering)
RenderOptions.ProcessRenderMode = RenderMode.SoftwareOnly;
}
}
You might be wondering why we should use software rendering for WPF applications. It depends on the end-user hardware configuration which might have “WPF-unfriendly” drivers, or just no graphics card. In some situations software rendering might be faster than hardware rendering … hope this helps.
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