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New in D3D12 – DRED helps developers diagnose GPU faults

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Bill Kristiansen
DRED stands for Device Removed Extended Data. DRED is an evolving set of diagnostic features designed to help identify the cause of unexpected device removal errors, delivering automatic breadcrumbs and GPU-page fault reporting on hardware that supports the necessary features (more about that later). DRED version 1.1 is available today in ...
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Direct3D team office has a Wall of GPU History

January 7, 2019 Jan 7, 2019 01/7/19
Shawn Hargreaves
When you are the team behind something like Direct3D, you need many different graphics cards to test on.  And when you’ve been doing this for as long as we have, you’ll inevitably accumulate a LOT of cards left over from years gone by.  What to do with them all?  One option would be to store boxes in someone’s office: But...