This application is not configured to use PerfHUD.

Consult the User’s Guide for more information.

You may have noticed that there is no reference to this error message, or ‘configuring your application’ in the User’s Guide. The solution is actually documented in the ‘NVPerfHud Quick Tutorial‘, and involves changing the parameters you pass to CreateDevice.

Hopefully posting this here will help other people find this information, since googling the error message turned up zero results for me. Good work, NVidia!

P.S. Preventing ‘unauthorized profiling by third parties’? What the hell is this, the cold war? This is computer graphics, not espionage. Can you imagine if other software worked this way?

To prevent unauthorized pixel modification by third parties, any images you wish to view with Adobe Photoshop must contain a hand-written sample of dialogue from the second act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare. Please note that dialogue from modern adaptations like the 1999 version featuring Kevin Kline is not sufficient. Also please note that handwriting in sufficiently obscure cursive scripts is unlikely to be recognized.