PIX on Windows

Programmatic Timing Captures now available

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23

As described in Programmatic Captures, the PIXBeginCapture and PIXEndCapture can now be used to start and stop Timing Captures from code running in your title. Programmatic Timing Captures are available starting with the 2303.02 release of PIX on Windows and version 1.0.230302001 of the WinPIXEventRuntime.Timing captures use several ETW ...

Memory profiling support for allocations made from a title’s custom allocator

March 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 03/13/23

Steven Pratschner

Starting with the 2303.02 release of PIX on Windows, PIX timing captures can track memory allocations and frees made by your custom memory allocators.By calling the new APIs, PIXRecordMemoryAllocationEvent and PIXRecordMemoryFreeEvent, you provide PIX with the data it needs to display information about all memory allocations and frees made...

PIX 2303.02: You asked, we listened! A bumper PIX release

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23

Austin Kinross

Today we released PIX on Windows version 2303.02, which can be downloaded here. We have also released a new version of WinPixEventRuntime, which can be downloaded here.This release has many new features and bug fixes in direct response to requests and feedback we've received from PIX users. Thank you for all of your feedback and ...

PIX-2212.22-preview: Experimental raygen shader debugging and DXR resource access detection

December 22, 2022 Dec 22, 2022 12/22/22

Austin Kinross

Today we released PIX-2212.22-preview, available for download here.If you're working with DirectX Raytracing (DXR) then please consider trying out these new PIX features and letting us know how things go. Your feedback will help us improve the debugging experience in future PIX releases.If you aren't using a feature in the "What's New...

PIX 2210.10-preview: Initial support for Preview Agility SDK v706

October 12, 2022 Oct 12, 2022 10/12/22

Matt Amert

Announcing Preview BuildsPIX on Windows has always been dedicated to keeping pace with the official releases of the Agility SDK. However, developers working with the Preview versions of the Agility SDK - which contain D3D12 features that are still in progress - are left without a meaningful graphics debugger. This can be especially ...

PIX 2208.10: SM 6.7 support, GPU and Timing Capture Improvements

August 10, 2022 Aug 10, 2022 08/10/22

Jacques van Rhyn

Today we released PIX version 2208.10, which can be downloaded here.This release has support for many new features, including: GPU Capture ImprovementsSupport for Shader Model 6.7Last month the DirectX team released Shader Model 6.7, and today’s PIX release includes support for ...

Using performance budgets in the Timing Capture metrics view

August 8, 2022 Aug 8, 2022 08/8/22

Steven Pratschner

The 2208.10 release of PX on Windows adds the ability to specify performance budgets in the Timing Capture metrics view.Performance budgets make it easy to quickly find points in the graph that are over their budget. Performance budgets can be specified for any metric. Budgets are often assigned for a variety of scenarios, including ...

PIX 2206.20: Servicing release with new AMD plugin

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22

Austin Kinross

Today we released PIX-2206.20, available for download here. The release is identical to the last PIX release (2205.24), except that it comes with a new version of the AMD plugin that supports additional AMD hardware and the latest AMD drivers...

PIX 2205.24: Unlocking Arm and Qualcomm development

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22

Jacques van Rhyn

Today we released PIX-2205.24, which can be downloaded here. This release contains Arm64 support for PIX and a Qualcomm plugin, bringing first-class support to graphics devs who want their apps to run as well as possible on Arm-based Windows hardware.PIX now runs natively on Arm64With Arm-based Windows devices becoming more popular, we’...

Timing Capture Metrics View improvements in PIX 2203.30

April 14, 2022 Apr 14, 2022 04/14/22

Steven Pratschner

The 2203.30 version of PIX on Windows contains two new features in the Timing Capture Metrics View. We added both of these features based on your feedback. The first new feature is the ability to graph a PIX CPU events execution time and stalled time, in addition to its duration. The second feature is an enhancement to the consolidated ...