PIX on Windows

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

June 13, 2018 Jun 13, 2018 06/13/18

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)

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

June 8, 2018 Jun 8, 2018 06/8/18

stevenpr_MS

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

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)

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

March 19, 2018 Mar 19, 2018 03/19/18

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)

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

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17

Shawn Hargreaves

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

PIX survey – we want to hear from you!

October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17

Brian Rasmussen (MSFT)

In January we released the first version of PIX on Windows to the public. As we’re approaching the end of the year, we would like to hear from you. Please take a moment and let us know what you think about PIX on Windows. Does it work for you? Does it make your games better? Your input is important, and it helps us build a better tool for ...

PIX 1709.18.004 – Dr. PIX bandwidth on AMD and Intel, access tracking for bindless resources, more performance warnings, and pixtool save-resource

September 19, 2017 Sep 19, 2017 09/19/17

Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1709.18.004 beta and an updated WinPixEventRuntime (version 1.0.170918004). New in this release...

PIX 1707.25 – counter rollup, new Dr. PIX experiments, pixel kill reason, and pixtool.exe

July 25, 2017 Jul 25, 2017 07/25/17

Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1707.25 beta. New in this release:  ...

PIX 1706.25.002 – system monitor and timing capture improvements

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17

Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1706.25.002 beta and an updated WinPixEventRuntime (version 1.0.170625002). New in this release:  ...

PIX 1705.17 – Intel GPU counters

May 18, 2017 May 18, 2017 05/18/17

Shawn Hargreaves

PIX 1705.17 beta is now available for download. This release introduces a partnership with Intel.  We are pleased to announce that PIX now supports a set of ~200 hardware performance counters when running on a compatible Intel GPU.  The new data includes processing counts, busy percentages, and bottleneck information from different parts of...