Hardware Overlay Supported?

Question

I'm running on Windows 8 and my VGA is a Geforce 8200m G. I'm writing a C++ Program and using d3d9 to create a hardware overlay. The question that I want to ask is - does Windows 8 still support hardware overlays and how can I find out if my VGA supports them. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

From MSDN:

Creating a Hardware Overlay Surface

To query for overlay support, call IDirect3D9::GetDeviceCaps. If the driver supports hardware overlay, the D3DCAPS_OVERLAY flag is set in the D3DCAPS9.Caps member.