GPU Captures: How we support placed and reserved resources

Austin KinrossAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

Quick Links   Summary   Recap: placed and reserved resources in D3D12 In D3D12, there are three types of resources: A committed resource has its own dedicated backing memory that isn’t shared with any other resource. This makes them relatively easy for PIX to capture...

PIX 2008.26: Performance Improvements

Austin KinrossAugust 27, 2020Aug 27, 202008/27/20

Earlier today we released PIX on Windows version 2008.26, featuring a 100,000+ line rewrite of our component that takes GPU Captures. Morgan has described this release’s functional improvements in her blog post, but here we’ll take a closer look at the new performance improvements.    Recap: GPU Captures in PIX on Windows...

New documentation page: Finding and Analyzing Context Switches

Steven PratschnerAugust 26, 2020Aug 26, 202008/26/20

Hi PIX users, I've written a new documentation topic on how to use the features in Timing Captures to find and analyze context switches (here). Feedback and questions appreciated as always. Thanks, Steven Pratschner - PIX team...