Are there any ways to debug gpu issues and discover gpu bottlenecks when developing only in v4 + shader editor?
I see there is an Nvidia debugger called Nsight which allows you to profile a gpu frame, but afaik it’s only for use inside visual studio
GPU-z is often useful but I need more information!
im only interested in dx11 btw
DX11.Query Category maybe?
yes that is really useful too, but tricky to trace exactly where a bottleneck has occured.
I’m hoping there is a tool that can analyse what happens in a frame of dx11 rendering without being a part of the ide you’re deving in
Have found this - http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/gpu-perfstudio/
am investigating!
it’s possible to debug shader code on latest visual studio however i’m not sure in process. as for bottlenecks and found bugs:
query is nice but it uses readback feature so it gonna cost u about 2-3 fps
preview and renderers are known buggers consuming pref without reason closing them helps (shud be fixed on latest build)
dynamic buffers are good but don’t push every frame a lot of data
general debug use GPU-Z & CPU-Z watch memory look for memory leaks
this way u can keep it solid specially with a lot of sub-patches
debug layer also nice. Looking if anyone can tell me what is ML
also a general tip, if u use deevaluate u HAVE to connect group with enable pin otherwise it going crazy, since u register data for render and it cannot find that data, so be aware of that issue found recently
would be interesting if that thingy could work out somehow:
http://cryengine.com/renderdoc
description sounds really promising:
"Renderdoc™ is a standalone program that can be used to capture and replay frames from any Windows application using Direct3D 11.0 or 11.1, and provides tools for deep analysis and graphics inspection, as well as detailed examination of API usage - allowing developers to locate bugs and problems in their programs. "
Thanks for the tips Antokhio, I didn’t know about the evaluate bug.
I had a quick try getting GPU perf studio to work. No joy but will have another go now. It looks exactly what I’m after.
Renderdoc also looks great. Will have a bash with that too
Someone must have tried these before?..
edit : quick update, Renderdoc appears to work. I’m able to catpure a frame then view api calls, shader resources, and inspect various stages of the pipeline. Haven’t seen anything to represent time taken to perform actions yet, but I’ve only just dug in
edit2 : this app is seriously cool. You can view info about every draw call, the time it took, view the results of each draw to a render target, inspect geometry at each shader stage, export everything, etc etc
good2know.
woooooww where this renderdoc was in my entire life??? speechless
I know!
a workflow changer
I’m going to try to get GPU perf studio working still though. As far as I can see from screenshots you can debug shaders using the original HLSL source code, rather than the confusing (de)compiled version you have using Renderdoc.
Unless I’m missing something in Renderdoc?