Showing results for March 2017 - PIX on Windows

Mar 20, 2017

PIX 1703.20.002 – NVIDIA GPU counters, file IO traces, shader edit & continue, and pixel cost visualizer

Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1703.20.002 beta. New in this release: NVIDIA GPU Counters As recently announced at GDC, we have partnered with NVIDIA to enable a rich set of hardware performance counters inside PIX. When running on an NVIDIA GPU with the latest driver (378.92) you will see ~300 newly available counters. ...

Mar 7, 2017

Using PIX on hybrid graphics systems

Shawn Hargreaves

If you are using PIX on a laptop which contains both integrated and discrete GPUs, you may be disappointed to notice that we currently¹ default to running the PIX analysis engine on the less powerful integrated part. For those who prefer to use the discrete GPU, we have added documentation about how to configure that in your driver control panel...