PIX 2008.26: Performance Improvements

August 27, 2020 Aug 27, 2020 08/27/20
Austin Kinross
Earlier today we released PIX on Windows version 2008.26, featuring a 100,000+ line rewrite of our component that takes GPU Captures. Morgan has described this release’s functional improvements in her blog post, but here we’ll take a closer look at the new performance improvements.    Recap: GPU Captures in PIX on Windows...
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Analyzing stalls and context switches in Timing Captures

August 26, 2020 Aug 26, 2020 08/26/20
Steven Pratschner
A context switch occurs when a CPU core switches from executing code on one thread, to executing code on a different thread, or going to idle. When the OS switches the thread that is running on a CPU, it must save and restore state, both for the thread that is being switched out, and for the thread that is being switched in. This state, or ...
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PIX 2007.29 – Dark Theme, bug fixes

July 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020 07/30/20
Morgan Grobin
Today we released PIX version 2007.29 which can be downloaded here. This release introduces Dark Theme, a change to timing capture file formats, and includes several bug fixes.   Dark Theme PIX now has a Dark Theme! You can enable Dark Theme in the Theme tab in the Settings menu. We hope this often requested feature will keep eyes ...

PIX 2006.26 – Fence Signal/Wait Arrows in GPU Captures

July 6, 2020 Jul 6, 2020 07/6/20
Morgan Grobin
Today we released PIX 2006.26 which can be downloaded here. This release contains support for fence signal-wait arrows in GPU captures, document tab behavior improvements, buffer viewer enhancements, and many bugfixes.   Fence Signal-Wait arrows for GPU captures GPU captures now track and visualize fence signals and waits to help you...

PIX 2004.27 – Improved struct support in the Buffer Viewer, CPU Memory and File IO Data in Timing Captures

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20
Morgan Grobin
Today we released PIX 2004.27 which can be downloaded here. This release contains improved support for structs in the Buffer Viewer, and support for CPU memory allocation data and file I/O data in Timing Captures. This version also includes an updated plugin for AMD GPUs, and supports a new pixtool flag to help automate grabbing an unknown ...

PIX 2003.26 – DirectX 12 Ultimate and DXIL debugging

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20
Damyan Pepper
Today we released PIX 2003.26 which can be downloaded here. This release contains support for DirectX 12 Ultimate, source-level debugging of DXIL shaders, a new GPU capture timeline, CPU/GPU event correlation in new timing captures and many more bug fixes and performance improvements. DirectX 12 Ultimate Support PIX on Windows now has ...

WinPixEventRuntime 2001.27

January 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020 01/27/20
Cooper Partin
Today we released WinPixEventRuntime 2001.27 on Nuget.  This release contains the following bug fixes and updates...
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PIX 1911.27 – New Buffer Formatter and Capture from Launch

December 2, 2019 Dec 2, 2019 12/2/19
Damyan Pepper
Today we released PIX 1911.27 which can be downloaded here.  This release contains an updated buffer formatter, the ability to start capturing of a process from initial launch, support for Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds (20H1) and many bug fixes. Buffer Formatter This release of PIX includes several enhancements to the Buffer Formatter...