PIX 1701.26 – GPU counter rollup, thread names, and high DPI UI

Shawn HargreavesJanuary 27, 2017Jan 27, 201701/27/17

Today we released PIX 1701.26 beta and an updated WinPixEventRuntime (version 1.0.170126001).  The event runtime upgrade is optional, as the latest PIX is compatible with older event runtimes. Most of these changes are in response to early feedback from customers.  Your input is valuable to us, so please keep it coming! New in this release

Introducing PIX on Windows (beta)

Shawn HargreavesJanuary 17, 2017Jan 17, 201701/17/17

Welcome to our new PIX team blog! PIX is a performance tuning and debugging tool for game developers.  It has a long and storied history spanning three generations of Xbox console.  Today we are pleased to announce that a beta release of PIX is now available for analyzing DirectX 12 games on Windows as well. PIX on Windows provides five ma