April 2017

PIX 1704.27 – D3D12 usage warnings, Dr. PIX, and CPU hotpath analysis

April 27, 2017 Apr 27, 2017 04/27/17

Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1704.27 beta. New in this release: Warnings New GPU capture warnings are available in the Warnings pane. To analyze a capture for them, click on Collect Experimental Warnings. Each new warning will be marked experimental until we build up confidence that it is working reliably and not...

PIX 1704.14-servicing – graphics driver compatibility fix

April 14, 2017 Apr 14, 2017 04/14/17

Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released a bugfix update: PIX 1704.14-servicing. This resolves an incompatibility between PIX and the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers. This version is otherwise identical to the previous 1703.20.002 release (but stay tuned - we are hard at work on some new features that will be showing up soon...

PIX videos on Channel 9

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17

Shawn Hargreaves

From GDC 2017, Shawn Hargreaves and Max McMullen talk about D3D12 Performance Tuning and Debugging with PIX and GPU Validation. Seth Juarez talks to Brian Rasmussen from the PIX team and Cameron Egbert from the Minecraft team about debugging and performance optimization for DirectX 12 games with PIX on Windows...

PIX on Windows

April 2017 - PIX on Windows