PIX on Windows

Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

August 2021 - PIX on Windows

PIX 2108.18: New programmatic capture APIs and much more

August 19, 2021 Aug 19, 2021 08/19/21
Austin Kinross
Today we released PIX on Windows version 2108.18, which can be downloaded here. We have also released a new version of WinPixEventRuntime, available here. This release has a lot of new features, including: This release also includes a new Visual C++ Redistributable that may request a reboot during ...

File IO profiling support for archive files

August 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021 08/13/21
Steven Pratschner
The August release of PIX on Windows adds file io profiling support for archive files to Timing Captures.  This new feature allows Timing Captures to identify which individual assets are being read out of archive files such as .zip or .pak. If the File Accesses checkbox is selected before starting a Timing Capture, PIX will collect data on...

PIX survey – we want to hear from you!

August 9, 2021 Aug 9, 2021 08/9/21
Jacques van Rhyn
Are you building games with DirectX 12 on Windows? We want to hear from you! Check out aka.ms/pixsurvey This survey will influence where the PIX team will make our future feature investments and help us better understand which pain points we need to address first. We also hope to better understand whether our past investments had the ...