RemoveDevice (XBOX Series consoles) - XBOX Game Development Documentation

You can call RemoveDevice to indicate to the Direct3D 12 runtime that the GPU device encountered a problem, and can no longer be used. Doing so will cause all devices’ monitored fences to be signaled. Your application typically doesn’t need to explicitly call RemoveDevice.

Remarks

Because device removal triggers all fences to be signaled to UINT64_MAX, you can create a callback for device removal using an event.

HANDLE deviceRemovedEvent = CreateEventW(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);
assert(deviceRemovedEvent != NULL);
_deviceFence->SetEventOnCompletion(UINT64_MAX, deviceRemoved);

HANDLE waitHandle;
RegisterWaitForSingleObject(
&waitHandle,
deviceRemovedEvent,
OnDeviceRemoved,
_device.Get(), // Pass the device as our context
INFINITE, // No timeout
0 // No flags
);

void OnDeviceRemoved(PVOID context, BOOLEAN)
{
ID3D12Device* removedDevice = (ID3D12Device*)context;
HRESULT removedReason = removedDevice->GetDeviceRemovedReason();
// Perform app-specific device removed operation, such as logging or inspecting DRED output
}

Requirements

Header: d3d12_xs.h
Library: d3d12_xs.lib
Supported Platforms: XBOX Series consoles

See Also

Last modified on October 19, 2026

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