Shawn Hargreaves

Using PIX on hybrid graphics systems

March 7th, 2017

If you are using PIX on a laptop which contains both integrated and discrete GPUs, you may be disappointed to notice that we currently¹ default to running the PIX analysis engine on the less powerful integrated part. For those who prefer to use the discrete GPU, we have added documentation about how to configure that in your driver control ...

PIX 1702.23.002 – visualizers, better warnings UI, memory capture type tracking, and MSAA sample inspection

February 23rd, 2017

Today we released PIX 1702.23.002 beta.  New in this release:   Rendertarget visualizers are available in the Pipeline view when inspecting the contents of a rendertarget.  The default Image visualizer just shows the image as normal: The Wireframe visualizer highlights whatever geometry was rendered by the ...

PIX 1701.26 – GPU counter rollup, thread names, and high DPI UI

January 27th, 2017

Today we released PIX 1701.26 beta and an updated WinPixEventRuntime (version 1.0.170126001).  The event runtime upgrade is optional, as the latest PIX is compatible with older event runtimes. Most of these changes are in response to early feedback from customers.  Your input is valuable to us, so please keep it coming! New in this release...

Introducing PIX on Windows (beta)

January 17th, 2017

Welcome to our new PIX team blog! PIX is a performance tuning and debugging tool for game developers.  It has a long and storied history spanning three generations of Xbox console.  Today we are pleased to announce that a beta release of PIX is now available for analyzing DirectX 12 games on Windows as well. PIX on Windows provides five ...