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Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows
June 28, 2019Jun 28, 201906/28/19Today we released PIX 1906.26, available for download here. This release makes PIX compatible with the latest Insider Preview builds of Windows.
Highlights
PIX now works on latest Inside Preview builds of Windows.
PIX no longer pops up an error message when trying to use a plugin with an unsupported GPU configuration (eg SLI).
June 17, 2019Jun 17, 201906/17/19Today we released PIX 1906.14, available for download here. This release adds GPU timings to the New Timing Capture preview and further improvements to DXIL shader debugging.
Highlights
New Timing Capture Improvements
Support for GPU timing data (see below)
Many other usability improvements,
June 3, 2019Jun 3, 201906/3/19A context switch occurs when a CPU core switches from executing code on one thread, to executing code on a different thread, or going to idle. When the OS switches the thread that is running on a CPU, it must save and restore state both for the thread that is being switched out,
