Microsoft DirectX 8.1 (C++)

Working with Earlier Drivers

This section lists issues that may be encountered when working with Microsoft® DirectX® 8.x on drivers written for versions of DirectX earlier than DirectX 8.x.

You can detect a driver not written for DirectX 8.x by querying the MaxStream member of D3DCAPS8. If this value is 0, then it is not a DirectX 8.x driver.