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MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED
MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED is a Windows Media Integration Layer (MIL) HRESULT. It indicates that the shader source, generated effect, compiler environment, or active graphics device could not compile the required shader.
What to check for MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED
- Capture shader diagnostics, feature level, driver version, and the parameters used to generate the effect.
- Validate shader syntax, supported instruction set, resource bindings, and compile-time options.
- Provide a simpler or software fallback effect when the application supports graceful degradation.
Microsoft documentation about WPF hardware-accelerated rendering
Diagnostic interpretation of MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED
MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED has the HRESULT value 0x88980099. AllStat records the condition as “Shader compilation failed.”. For MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED, in practice, interpret that wording at the boundary owned by the Windows component or COM interface that returned the HRESULT, rather than treating the value as a generic Windows message.
Evidence to capture for MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED
- Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x88980099 value before a wrapper converts it to an exception or Boolean result.
- Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED or the milerr / shader / compile operation.
- Preserve the first failure in the call chain; a later HRESULT can describe cleanup rather than the original milerr / shader / compile condition.
Retry and recovery for MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED
Retry MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “Shader compilation failed.” has changed. For MILERR_SHADER_COMPILE_FAILED, configuration, policy, format, and authorization failures normally require correction first; an immediate loop can hide the original call site and add secondary errors.
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