{"id":1615,"date":"2016-11-22T00:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T00:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/pix\/?page_id=1615"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:28:55","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended for best results when using PIX on Windows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10\u00a0with latest updates<\/li>\n<li>32 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>A Direct3D 12 GPU with the latest available graphics drivers\n<ul>\n<li>AMD driver &gt;= <a href=\"http:\/\/support.amd.com\/en-us\/kb-articles\/Pages\/Radeon-Software-Crimson-ReLive-Edition-17.5.1-Release-Notes.aspx\">22.19.165.1 (17.5.1)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Intel driver &gt;=\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/downloadcenter.intel.com\/download\/26772\/Graphics-Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-15-45-\">15.45.18.4664<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA 970 or better with driver &gt;= <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/index.aspx\">378.92 (21.21.13.7892)<\/a>.\u00a0 Note that NVIDIA\u2019s support for GPU shader instruction disassembly requires a DLL.\u00a0 Please use this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/shader-disasm\">link<\/a> to get the DLL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minimum requirements for PIX version 2006.26 and newer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10 version 1809 (aka RS5)<\/li>\n<li>x64 processor architecture<\/li>\n<li>A Direct3D 12 GPU of any feature level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minimum requirements for PIX version 2004.27 and older:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10 build 10586 (<em>November Update<\/em>, aka TH2)<\/li>\n<li>x64 processor architecture<\/li>\n<li>A Direct3D 12 GPU of any feature level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PIX on Windows does not support directly analyzing x86 or Direct3D 11 applications. However, Direct3D 11 apps can be captured via by forcing D3D 11on12.<\/p>\n<p>If you are running a Windows build earlier than 14393, or have not installed the latest Windows updates as of October 2016, some PIX features will be disabled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shader debugging<\/li>\n<li>Debug layer warnings and GPU validation<\/li>\n<li>Start-of-pipeline GPU timestamps (which increase the quality of GPU timing data, and reduce the time required to collect it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are not using the latest graphics drivers, these features may be disabled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start-of-pipeline GPU timestamps<\/li>\n<li>GPU shader instruction disassembly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended for best results when using PIX on Windows: Windows 10\u00a0with latest updates 32 GB RAM A Direct3D 12 GPU with the latest available graphics drivers AMD driver &gt;= 22.19.165.1 (17.5.1) Intel driver &gt;=\u00a015.45.18.4664 NVIDIA 970 or better with driver &gt;= 378.92 (21.21.13.7892).\u00a0 Note that NVIDIA\u2019s support for GPU shader instruction disassembly requires a DLL.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1719,"featured_media":4769,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1615","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}