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Jan 30, 2025
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PIX 2501.30-preview: Application Specific Driver State, Recreate At GPUVA and Tight Alignment

Henchhing Limbu
Henchhing Limbu

Today we released PIX version 2501.30-preview, available for download here. This release has initial support for the exciting new D3D12 features that were released in a preview DirectX Agility SDK today. Please visit this blog post for more information about the Agility SDK release. 2501.30-preview is a preview version of PIX. It is identical to...

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Jan 30, 2025
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PIX 2501.30 – Support for Shader Hash Bypass, bug fixes, and everything in 2412.12

Henchhing Limbu
Henchhing Limbu

Today we released PIX version 2501.30, which can be downloaded here. This release includes support for everything that was in the 2412.12 version of PIX, plus the following improvements: Support for Shader Hash Bypass PIX has full support for this new D3D12 feature that allows apps to bypass shader hash validation in D3D12 runtime by embedding a ...

Nov 21, 2024
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Timing Capture Range Details “v2”

Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner

Release 2412.12 of PIX on Windows includes a Preview of a new implementation of the Range Details view in Timing Captures. The initial implementation of the Range Details view allowed you to list individual data items for a given range of time.  While this capability provided several basic scenarios, it was not flexible enough to support many of...

Nov 13, 2024
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The Timing Capture comparison layout

Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner

Starting with version 2408.05 of PIX on Windows, the Timing Capture comparison features have been moved from the Metrics view to a new dedicated Comparison Layout. This layout improves several comparison workflows, including the ability to compare data from multiple captures. The Comparison Layout produces a statistical comparison of the average...

Aug 20, 2024
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Multi-process profiling support in Timing Captures

Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner

Starting with the 2408.05 release of PIX on Windows, performance data from multiple processes can be analyzed with a single Timing Capture.  The ability to analyze multiple processes simultaneously is useful in scenarios where multiple copies of a game server are running on the same machine, for example. PIX will capture data from all running pr...

Aug 12, 2024
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PIX 2408.09 – Bug fixes + everything in 2408.05

Austin Kinross
Austin Kinross

Today we released PIX version 2408.09, which can be downloaded here. This release includes everything that was in the 2408.05 version of PIX, plus the following bug fixes:  

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Aug 7, 2024
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Timing Capture bookmarks

Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner

Starting with the 2408.05 release of PIX on Windows, developers can add bookmarks, or annotations, to lanes in the Timeline layout of Timing Captures. Bookmarks are text notes that can be added at either a specific point in time, or to a range of time, on any lane in the Timeline. These notes are used to annotate aspects of a capture that are in...

Aug 6, 2024
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Querying the PIX Timing Capture file format

Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner

The Timing Capture file format is a Sqlite database.  Queries written in standard SQL syntax can be used to extract data from Timing Capture files to perform a variety of analysis tasks without requiring the PIX user interface. PIX on Windows includes a Sqlite extension that simplifies the queries for common tasks such as determining the...