PIX on Windows

New File IO-related counters in the Timing Capture Metrics View

July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Steven Pratschner

The 2107.01 release of PIX on Windows adds drive bandwidth counters to the Metrics view in Timing Captures.  These new counters, along with the existing drive utilization counters and the ability to view data on all file accesses, helps give you a clear picture of how file io is impacting title performance. To collect the counters and the ...

Symbol loading improvements to PIX Timing Captures

July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Steven Pratschner

Have you ever opened a Timing Capture only to realize you hadn't configured your symbol path correctly?  The good news is that PIX has long had the ability to process symbols after the fact.  The bad news is that you had to close and reopen the capture (after fixing up your symbol path) to trigger PIX to reload the symbols. A small, but ...