September 4th, 2014
Introduction
Graphics Performance Analyzers are powerful, agile developer tools for analyzing and optimizing games, media, and other graphics-intensive applications. The tools support applications intended for the Windows* OS platforms or Intel® Atom™ processor based devices and a very limited set of ARM* based devices running the Android*. You can download the tools from the Home Page or INDE Web Site.
Available now, Graphics Performance Analyzers 2014 R3 include these key features:
Features for Analyzing Windows* OS Applications
Graphics Frame Analyzer
- Fixed a defect leading to a crash when opening frames containing compressed texture formats such as DXGI_FORMAT_BC6H_UF16.
System Analyzer
- Intel® Media SDK metrics are now supported on Windows 8.1.
Platform Analyzer
- Added support for OpenCL™ applications (1.0 and 2.0): OpenCL™ queue visualization and OpenCL™ calls instrumentation. For details see this article.
Graphics Monitor
- Enabled capturing application startup data.
- Enabled fine-grained system-wide metrics capture.
- Fixed a defect in our instrumentation that prevented users from launching Starcraft II under Graphics Monitor.
Features for Analyzing Android* Applications
Added support for OpenGL* ES 3.0 workloads in System Analyzer and Graphics Frame Analyzer.
- Resources compression when frame captures are taken, leading to faster playback response time to a connected device.
System Analyzer
- Enabled fine-grained system-wide metrics capture.
The product also adds other minor enhancements and stability improvements. You can download and install this latest version of the product from the Home Page.
Next Steps
To find out more about the Graphics Performance Analyzers, check out one or more of these online resources:
- Release Notes: Explore recent updates, detailed product requirements, installation information, legal information, and version-specific technical issues and workarounds for the tools.
- Home Page: View detailed information about the tools, including links to training and support resources, as well as videos on the product to help you get started quickly.
- Online Help: Explore details on the product tools and metrics for various platforms.
- Support Forum: Ask questions or report issues about the product, or let us know what other features would help make the tools more useful for your workflow.
- Knowledge Base Articles: Explore a list of useful technical articles, including tips & tricks and workarounds to help you get the most out of the tools.
- 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor (Intel® microarchitecture code name Haswell): Get an overview of the latest processors from Intel, including detailed information about the architecture. Also, you'll find a Graphics Developers Guide showing how to optimize your games and graphics applications for systems based on this architecture.
* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
** Disclaimer: Intel disclaims all liability regarding rooting of devices. Users should consult the applicable laws and regulations and proceed with caution. Rooting may or may not void any warranty applicable to your devices.