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Graphics Debugger

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Development Platform, Visual Studio Edition 2.2 User Guide
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NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition software is the world’s first graphics development environment integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio, the world’s most popular development environment. NVIDIA Nsight enables DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and DirectX 11 graphics development, debugging, and optimization.

Shader Debugger

Using the Shader Debugger, you can:

Debug all HLSL graphics shaders directly on GPU hardware;
Examine shaders executing in parallel using the familiar Locals, Watch, Memory and Breakpoints windows in Visual Studio;
View and interact at the source code level with all shaders loaded by the application;
Identify shaders that affect any given primitive or pixel using conditional breakpoints;
Instantly debug any shader or graphics application.

Frame Debugger

The Frame Debugger allows for:

Real-time examination of DirectX rendering calls;
Interactive examination of GPU pipeline state, including visualization of bound textures, geometry and unordered access views;
Pixel History shows all operations that affect a given pixel;
Frame Profiler identifies performance bottlenecks and GPU utilization;
Save frame captures for offline collaboration and analysis.

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