DRED v1.2 supports PIX marker and event strings in Auto-Breadcrumbs

Shikha Kaul

In Windows 10 1903, DRED 1.1 provided D3D12 developers with the ability to diagnose device removed events using GPU page fault data and automatic breadcrumbs. As a result, TDR debugging pain has been greatly reduced. Hooray! Unfortunately, developers still struggle to pinpoint which specific GPU workloads triggered the error. So, we’ve made a few tweaks in DRED in the Windows 10 20H1 Release Preview. Specifically, DRED 1.2 adds ‘Context Data’ to auto-breadcrumbs by integrating PIX marker and event strings into the auto-breadcrumb data. With context data, developers can more precisely determine where a GPU fault occurred. For example, instead of observing that a TDR occurs after the 71’st DrawInstanced call, the data can now indicate the fault occurred after the second DrawInstanced following the “BeginFoliage” PIX begin-event.

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