PIX 1908.02 – Fixes for customer issues, plus DXR and New Timing Capture improvements

Austin KinrossAugust 5, 2019Aug 5, 201908/5/19

Today we released PIX 1908.02, which can be downloaded here. This release fixes miscellaneous bugs that were reported to us by customers. It also adds new CPU features to New Timing Captures, and adds some final touches to the new DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Pipeline View in GPU Captures. Thank you everyone who has reported issues to us. As ...

PIX 1906.26 – Minor update fixes PIX on Insider Preview builds of Windows

Damyan PepperJune 28, 2019Jun 28, 201906/28/19

Today we released PIX 1906.26, available for download here. This release makes PIX compatible with the latest Insider Preview builds of Windows. Highlights...

PIX 1906.14 – GPU Timing in New Timing Captures

Stephen HitchcockJune 17, 2019Jun 17, 201906/17/19

Today we released PIX 1906.14, available for download here.  This release adds GPU timings to the New Timing Capture preview and further improvements to DXIL shader debugging. Highlights GPU Timing Data This release of PIX adds GPU Timing Data to the preview of New Timing Captures. Like with ...

PIX 1904.23 – New Timing Capture preview and improved DXIL shader debugging

Damyan PepperApril 24, 2019Apr 24, 201904/24/19

Today we released PIX 1904.23, available for download here.  This release contains a preview of the new Timing Capture implementation and improvements to DXIL shader debugging and pixtool as well as various other improvements and bug fixes. Highlights Preview of new Timing Capture implementation ...

PIX 1903.26 – Occupancy for Turing GPUs and Variable Rate Shading

Austin KinrossMarch 27, 2019Mar 27, 201903/27/19

Today we released PIX-1903.26, available for download here. This release includes support for Variable Rate Shading in GPU Captures, and it adds support for Occupancy on NVIDIA Turing GPUs such as an RTX 2080.   Variable Rate Shading Variable Rate Shading (VRS) is a powerful new DirectX 12 feature that allows applications to ...

PIX 1903.12 – High Frequency Counters

Austin KinrossMarch 13, 2019Mar 13, 201903/13/19

Today we released PIX-1903.12, available for download here. This release includes an exciting new feature in GPU Captures: High Frequency Counters. With High Frequency Counters, developers can plot graphs of GPU hardware counter values over time and correlate ranges of the graphs back to specific events within their GPU Capture. These ...

PIX 1901.28 – Timing Data Improvements and support for new GPUs

Austin Kinross (MSFT)February 1, 2019Feb 1, 201902/1/19

Today we released PIX-1901.28, which can be downloaded here. In this release we’ve made improvements to Timing Data in GPU Captures, added support for new GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD, and fixed miscellaneous other issues described below. Timing Data Improvements for GPU Captures We have significantly reworked how PIX collects Timing Data in GPU...

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 ...