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May 18, 2017
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PIX 1705.17 – Intel GPU counters

Shawn Hargreaves
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 the re...

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May 17, 2017
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PIX 1705.16 – AMD GPU counters, preliminary DXIL support, and more warnings

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1705.16 beta.  New in this release:   AMD GPU Counters We are delighted to announce a partnership with AMD to enable a rich set of hardware performance counters inside PIX.  When running on an AMD GPU with the latest driver (17.5.1) you will see ~90 newly available counters that can be added to the PIX ev...

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Apr 27, 2017
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PIX 1704.27 – D3D12 usage warnings, Dr. PIX, and CPU hotpath analysis

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1704.27 beta.  New in this release:   Warnings New GPU capture warnings are available in the Warnings pane.  To analyze a capture for them, click on Collect Experimental Warnings. Each new warning will be marked experimental until we build up confidence that it is working reliably and not report...

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Apr 14, 2017
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PIX 1704.14-servicing – graphics driver compatibility fix

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released a bugfix update: PIX 1704.14-servicing.  This resolves an incompatibility between PIX and the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers.  This version is otherwise identical to the previous 1703.20.002 release (but stay tuned - we are hard at work on some new features that will be showing up soon).

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Mar 20, 2017
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PIX 1703.20.002 – NVIDIA GPU counters, file IO traces, shader edit & continue, and pixel cost visualizer

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1703.20.002 beta.  New in this release:   NVIDIA GPU Counters As recently announced at GDC, we have partnered with NVIDIA to enable a rich set of hardware performance counters inside PIX.  When running on an NVIDIA GPU with the latest driver (378.92) you will see ~300 newly available counters.  These c...

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Feb 23, 2017
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PIX 1702.23.002 – visualizers, better warnings UI, memory capture type tracking, and MSAA sample inspection

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1702.23.002 beta.  New in this release:   Rendertarget visualizers are available in the Pipeline view when inspecting the contents of a rendertarget.  The default Image visualizer just shows the image as normal: The Wireframe visualizer highlights whatever geometry was rendered by the currently selec...

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Jan 27, 2017
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PIX 1701.26 – GPU counter rollup, thread names, and high DPI UI

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Today we released PIX 1701.26 beta and an updated WinPixEventRuntime (version 1.0.170126001).  The event runtime upgrade is optional, as the latest PIX is compatible with older event runtimes. Most of these changes are in response to early feedback from customers.  Your input is valuable to us, so please keep it coming! New in this release: ...

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Jan 17, 2017
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Introducing PIX on Windows (beta)

Shawn Hargreaves
Shawn Hargreaves

Welcome to our new PIX team blog! PIX is a performance tuning and debugging tool for game developers.  It has a long and storied history spanning three generations of Xbox console.  Today we are pleased to announce that a beta release of PIX is now available for analyzing DirectX 12 games on Windows as well. PIX on Windows provides five main mode...

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