Tools And Fools
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Enter Matt “Gone Native” Pettineo.
Matt. Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time with the various performance and debugging utilities available for Direct3D, and I thought it might be useful to give a quick overview of what’s out there. I’m sure most people who do a lot of Direct3D/XNA work are aware of these tools, but probably aren’t familiar with all of the really cool things you can do with them.
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Matt. So at this point just everybody knows about knows about PIX. I mean it comes with the DirectX SDK, for crying out loud. This handy little program started its like as the Performance Investigator for Xbox (original Xbox, that is) and today is useful performance and debugging tool for both Windows and the Xbox 360. […]
If you’re an XNA programmer I’d recommend checking out my in-depth PIX With XNA article, especially if you’re new to D3D in general. For rest of you, here’s a summary of what I think are the most useful things you can do with PIX:
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SCENE XXVI
The VentSpace once again.
Enter Promit “Gone Shoveling” Roy.
Promit. I’m currently working towards the release of SlimTune 0.2.1, which will hopefully happen before GDC. If you’ve been paying attention, that might seem a bit odd to you — 0.2.0 isn’t out yet. That’s because 0.2.0 is the pre-release version, and I need testers for it.
More the details and contact.
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