PIX on Windows

PIX 1812.14 – Playback Adapter Selection

Damyan PepperDecember 18, 2018Dec 18, 201812/18/18

Today we released PIX-1812.14, which adds support for selecting the playback adapter, displaying unbound resources and improvements to the occupancy lane. This release also includes various miscellaneous fixes detailed below. Playback Adapter Selection PIX now allows you to select the GPU on which to play back a recording. After opening a ...

PIX 1810.24 – Support for final DirectX Raytracing API

Austin Kinross (MSFT)October 29, 2018Oct 29, 201810/29/18

Today we released PIX-1810.24, which adds support for the final DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API that’s part of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (a.k.a. “RS5”). This release also fixes miscellaneous other bugs, including an incompatibility between PIX and the latest AMD 18.40+ drivers. Features available in PIX to help developers debug ...

PIX-1810.02 – Direct3D11 and WinML

Damyan PepperOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

Release Notes Today we released PIX-1810.02. This version includes: Direct3D 11 on 12 Support On RS5 PIX can now be instructed to use a Direct3D11-to-Direct3D12 translation layer to make GPU captures of Direct3D11 applications. At playback, the PIX UI will show the resulting Direct3D12 calls but will offer no mapping back to ...

PIX 1807.19 – Shader Table Viewer

Damyan PepperJuly 24, 2018Jul 24, 201807/24/18

Today we released PIX 1807.19 which includes a new Shader Table Viewer...

PIX 1806.20 – GPU Occupancy for AMD GPUs

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)June 25, 2018Jun 25, 201806/25/18

Today we released PIX 1806.20 which provides GPU Occupancy for AMD GPUs. As always, please let us know if you have feedback on any of the features in PIX on Windows...

PIX 1806.11 – Fence signals and waits visualization, major UI streamlining, new Edit and Continue experience, and more

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)June 13, 2018Jun 13, 201806/13/18

Today we released PIX 1806.11 which includes numerous new and updated features: As always, please let us know if you have feedback on any of the features in PIX on Windows. Fence signal/wait visualization in timing captures...

New PIX CPU Profiling Videos

stevenpr_MSJune 8, 2018Jun 8, 201806/8/18

Two new videos have been posted to the PIX for Windows YouTube channel. Both videos highlight the CPU profiling features in PIX timing captures. The first video provides an overview of Timing Captures while the second introduces the Tracked Functions and CPU sampling features...

PIX 1803.25 – GPU Occupancy, CPU sampling, automatic shader PDB resolution, and more

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)March 27, 2018Mar 27, 201803/27/18

Today we released PIX 1803.25 which includes numerous new and updated features: As always, please let us know if you have feedback on any of the features in PIX on Windows. GPU occupancy The screenshot above shows how PIX on Windows visualize ...

PIX 1803.16-raytracing – DirectX Raytracing support

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)March 19, 2018Mar 19, 201803/19/18

Today we released PIX-1803.16-raytracing which adds experimental support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR). As just announced at GDC this morning, Microsoft is adding support for hardware accelerated raytracing to DirectX 12 and with this release PIX on Windows supports DXR rendering so you can start experimenting with this exciting new feature ...

PIX 1711.28 – GPU memory usage, TDR debugging, DXIL shader debugging, and child process GPU capture

Shawn HargreavesNovember 30, 2017Nov 30, 201711/30/17

Today we released PIX_1711.28. New in this release: ...