{"id":6852,"date":"2025-05-06T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T23:03:02","slug":"introducing-budget-profiles-in-timing-captures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/introducing-budget-profiles-in-timing-captures\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Budget Profiles in Timing Captures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2505.09 release<\/a> of PIX on Windows introduces the concept of Budget Profiles in Timing captures.\u00a0 A Budget Profile is a grouping of budgets defined for their respective metrics.\u00a0 A common use of Budget Profiles is to define the performance targets, or profiles, for different hardware specifications.\u00a0 For example, your studio likely has different performance targets for min-spec, mid-range and high end PCs.<\/p>\n

Budget Profiles are defined and managed using a new Budgets layout.\u00a0 Click the New Profile<\/strong> button on the Budgets layout to create a new profile.<\/p>\n

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A dialog will appear, prompting you to name your new profile.<\/p>\n

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After clicking ok to create the budget profile, the metrics selection panel will be displayed on the left hand side of the view.\u00a0 Select a metric to create a budget to add to the profile.\u00a0 Doing so displays a dialog on which you can specify an initial budget for the metric.\u00a0 In this example, a budget for the Working Set Size metric has been set.<\/p>\n

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Budget profiles typically consist of numerous budgets.\u00a0 The main view in the Budgets layout displays the budgets and their metrics.\u00a0 Use the buttons on each lane to either graph the metrics in the Metrics layout, or to open the Comparison layout.<\/p>\n

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When the Comparison layout is opened, the points above the budget are contained in the left hand graph, while the points below the budget are contained in the right hand graph.<\/p>\n

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Use the dropdown next to the budget value on the Budgets layout to edit or delete the budget.<\/p>\n

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Multiple budget profiles are typically defined.\u00a0 Switch between them using the Budget Profile dropdown.<\/p>\n

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The currently selected budget profile determines the budget values that are used when viewing budgets in either the Metrics layout or the Comparison layout.\u00a0 For example, the min spec PC performance profile<\/strong> specifies a budget of 108 for Working Set Size.<\/p>\n

When min spec PC performance profile<\/strong> is selected in the Budgets view, the graph of the Working Set Size<\/strong> metric in the Metrics view will use the budget of 108.\u00a0 Switching to a different budget profile will change the budget values that are used.<\/p>\n

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Similarly, a budget of 108 will be used in the Comparison layout when comparing points above and below the budget line.<\/p>\n

In previous versions of PIX on Windows, budgets could be set using the Budget tab of the Metric Details panel on the Metrics layout.\u00a0 Budgets can still be set on the Metrics layout.\u00a0 This is now done using the context menu on the graph.\u00a0 Right clicking a point on the graph and selecting Set budget for <metric><\/strong> creates a budget with the value of the selected point.\u00a0 Setting a budget in this way will add the budget to the currently active budget profile.<\/p>\n

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As always, keep the feature requests and bug reports coming using the PIX Feedback button in the upper right corner of the UI.<\/p>\n

Steven.<\/p>\n

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The 2505.09 release of PIX on Windows introduces the concept of Budget Profiles in Timing captures.\u00a0 A Budget Profile is a grouping of budgets defined for their respective metrics.\u00a0 A common use of Budget Profiles is to define the performance targets, or profiles, for different hardware specifications.\u00a0 For example, your studio likely has different performance […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}