DirectX 9 AudioVideoPlayback

can you not just render text to the surface? using System.Drawing; public declarations public System.Drawing.Font displayFont; public Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Font font; device is a initialised Microsoft.DirectX.Direct32.Device (you will have this) this is with directx init code displayFont = new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 12, FontStyle.Regular); font = new Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Font(device, displayFont); then in the render loop: font.DrawText(null,"i'm some text", //string to render new Rectangle(15, 0, 400, 300), // Where to draw it DrawTextFormat.Top | DrawTextFormat.Left, // Align it left & top Color.White // Render it in white );