Previous versions

GPU PerfStudio 2.8 Improvements

• New Properties Window added to display text based data
  • The previous text based windows have been replaced by a single properties window
  • The default stage layouts have been edited to use this new window
• Shader Debugger
  • Constant table UI improvements
  • More assembly shaders are now debuggable
  • Fix for the register mask of the last instruction being black
  • The contents of the Shader constant table can now be saved to disk
• Shader Editor now supports relative paths
• Profiler
  • The Profiler now gives the user feedback as the profile is taking place
  • Single Draw Call Profiling is now supported
  • Ability to perform a profile a specific number of times
  • Reduced the memory overhead when many counters are used in a profile
• Advanced Picture Viewer
  • Now saves to disk the image that you actually see (i.e. the channels the user selects)
  • DDS Support for DXGI_FORMAT_R32_UINT
• Client connection dialog now saves settings upon connection
• OpenGL
  • Support for OpenGL debug context

• OpenGL 4.0 is now supported
• Shader Debugger
  • DX11/DX10 Vertex Shader debugging is now supported
  • Constant buffer indexes are now correct
• Stage Layouts
  • Pipeline Stage view now shows which stages are active at a draw call
  • New Image Resource Thumbnail viewer that allows the user to view image resources from different stages of the pipeline in one view
  • DX11/DX10 the stencil buffer has been removed from the OM layout. The Depth and Stencil images are both in the depth image in different channels
• DX11/DX10
  • Frame Capture now supports the creation of vertex buffers
  • DX11 Buffer Visualization support for shader inputs
  • DX11 CS UAV Visualization support for shader inputs
  • DX11 Constant buffers now display non-float data correctly
• Profiler
  • New Profile delta feature allows the user to see the differences between two profiles

GPU PerfStudio 2.6 Improvements:

• OpenGL 3.0
  • Frame Capture is now supported
  • Texture_2D_Rect type supported
  • Better support for OpenGL titles
• Stage Layouts
  • New window layouts for each stage of the graphics pipeline
  • Quickly move between stages with one click
  • Each layout can be edited by the user
  • Includes an additional 4 custom layout slots
• Image Viewer
  • View images as a data grid
  • The image viewer is now a modal window that helps to maximizes screen space
• Shader Debugger
  • The shader debugger is now a modal window that maximizes screen space when debugging.
• Profiler results window has been reorganized
  • Per-draw results table has been combined with state bucket table
  • State bucket grouping options have been moved to the Data tab
  • Automatic sorting by the first counter
• New Index and Vertex Buffer Window
  • This new window shows the contents of the index buffer and vertex buffer
  • View details about the input layout elements
  • Helps debug performance issues with vertex buffers that are not properly aligned

GPU PerfStudio 2.5 Improvements:

• New API Trace window
  • Displays a timeline which visually displays the start time and duration for each call made by the frame.
  • Displays a per-thread sequential list of calls made to render the frame.
  • Supports one-click two-way navigation between the time line and call list.
  • Supports multithreaded applications, displaying a separate API trace for each thread.
  • Supports saving API trace data to disk in XML format.
  • Supports searching the API trace for a given string.
  • Two-way integration with the Frame Debugger's draw call slider.
• DX11 Shader Editing
  • Edit and re-compile HLSL shader from inside PerfStudio's shader code window.
  • See the effect of your edits immediately in the running app.
  • Supports changing of compile flags.
  • Use in conjunction with the profiler to measure the performance changes of your edits.
• Automated Updater
  • The PerfStudio 2 client now checks to see if a newer version is available for download. A task bar pop-up window will alert the user if a new version is available.
• Improved support for more game applications.

GPU PerfStudio 2.4 Improvements:

• Improved connection process and UI.
• Improved interaction between API Trace and Frame Debugger.
• The shader code window now has line numbers.
• DX11 Better support for DrawIndexedInstancedIndirect, DrawInstancedIndirect, and DispatchIndirect.
• DX11 Improved support for multiple devices.
• DX11/DX10 - Frame Capture is now more stable.
• DX11 Improved support for multi-threaded applications.
• DX10 PerfMarkers are now supported in the API Trace and Profiler when Frame Capture is being used.
• OpenGL - Profiler now works on ATI Radeon HD 2400 series graphics cards.
• OpenGL - wglSwapLayerBuffers is now recognized as a frame boundary.
• Profiler column headers now indicate units, percentages (%), milliseconds (ms), bytes (b), and kilobytes (kb).
• Profiler now supports ATI Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards. Improved ordering of the profiler counters .
• Improved depth and stencil profiler counters.

GPU PerfStudio 2.3 New Features:

• Support for DirectX 11 Deferred Contexts
• CPU thread timing information for graphics API calls
• GPU Timing graph integrated with draw call slider
• Picture-in-picture feature for zoomed in image viewing
• Improved Profiler user interface
• Addition of tessellator specific counters
• Improved support for more game applications

GPU PerfStudio 2.2 New Features:

• Accurate color picker in the texture viewer
• DX11 Shader Linkage is now supported
• OpenGL now supports texture arrays
• Works with a wider range of applications
• Simplified client connection

GPU PerfStudio 2.1 New Features:

• DX11 is now supported.
• OpenGL 3.0 is now supported.
• Frame Capture has been implemented for DX11 and DX10 (not OpenGL 3.0).
• DX11 Compute Shader debugging is supported.