Hello, I am a student trying to implement my own real time pathtracer in DXR but I am facing a problem with properly loading textures into GPU memory under DX12. The app is based on Microsoft's DXR Samples and this is how I load the texture file:

This is how I copy It from the upload heap into default heap along with other buffers

This is how the CreateTextureSRV method is implemented:

CreateDDSTextureFromFile12 is copied from “Introduction to 3D Game Programming in DirectX 12” by Frank Luna

This is how the texture appears in PIX

descriptor heap with the texture view

This is how it looks

Full source code in experimental branch: Microsista/Pathtracer (github.com)

What am I doing wrong? I've been sitting on this since yesterday and I can't figure it out.

Thanks

I've managed to load textures onto the GPU and display them, but it works only when running directly from the .exe file

and not when running inside visual studio, what could be the reason for that?

Thanks! The problem was that I had an exact copy of the textures folder inside the working directory, but for some reason they didn't work. After switching to the executable directory they work perfectly fine!