PIX on Windows

Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

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Matt Amert
Matt Amert
Feb 16, 2021

WinPixEventRuntime 2102.09: Minor fixes and optimizations

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since our last update to WinPixEventRuntime! This update brings a couple of minor fixes and optimizations, ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Feb 3, 2021

Filtering CPU Samples by one or more PIX Events

The Sampling Profiler included in the 2101.27 release of PIX on Windows includes a novel new feature that allows you to filter the analysis of CPU samples down ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Feb 1, 2021

Function Summary and Callgraph captures are now deprecated

Function Summary and Callgraph captures are deprecated starting with the 2102.27 release of PIX on Windows. The workflows supported by these legacy capture ...

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Austin Kinross
Austin Kinross
Jan 27, 2021

PIX 2101.27: AMD raytracing counters, DXIL improvements, and more

Today we released PIX version 2101.27, which can be downloaded here. This release adds support for new GPUs and counters to AMD’s PIX plugin, improves ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Dec 7, 2020

New documentation page: Analyzing CPU samples in Timing Captures

Hi PIX users, I've added a new page to our PIX for Windows documentation set.  The new page describes how to use Timing Captures to analyze CPU samples.  ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Dec 7, 2020

Analyzing CPU samples in Timing Captures

PIX includes a CPU sampling profiler that can optionally be run when taking a Timing Capture. Collecting CPU samples allows you to analyze how functions within ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Oct 28, 2020

New documentation page: Analyzing Win32 File IO performance using Timing Captures

Hi all, I've added another page to our PIX for Windows documentation set.  The new page describes how to use Timing Captures to analyze file io performance.  ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Oct 28, 2020

Analyzing Win32 File IO performance in Timing Captures

PIX Timing Captures include an option to collect data on your title’s use of the Win32 file IO APIs to access files. The data collected for calls to APIs ...

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Steven Pratschner
Steven Pratschner
Oct 28, 2020

New documentation page: Analyzing Memory usage and performance in Timing Captures

Hi PIX users, Over the last few releases we've been extending our memory profiling features in Timing Captures.  I've written a new documentation page that ...

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