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Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

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PIX 1906.14 – GPU Timing in New Timing Captures

June 17, 2019 Jun 17, 2019 06/17/19
Stephen Hitchcock
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 1903.26 – Occupancy for Turing GPUs and Variable Rate Shading

March 27, 2019 Mar 27, 2019 03/27/19
Austin Kinross
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

March 13, 2019 Mar 13, 2019 03/13/19
Austin Kinross
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

February 1, 2019 Feb 1, 2019 02/1/19
Austin Kinross (MSFT)
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

December 18, 2018 Dec 18, 2018 12/18/18
Damyan Pepper
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

October 29, 2018 Oct 29, 2018 10/29/18
Austin Kinross (MSFT)
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

October 4, 2018 Oct 4, 2018 10/4/18
Damyan Pepper
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 ...