Debugging Direct3D in your app

Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20131Debugging Direct3D in your appRudolph BalazSenior Program Manager3-1416/27/2013Windows Azure2 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.IntroductionThis is a different type of presentation.Valuable for developers of all Direct3D expertise levels.Covering single most important developer feedback.Windows 8.1 Preview/Visual Studio 2013 Preview.Foundation for solid/reliable graphics tools.Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20133Preventing common errors.Debugging your graphics.Validating before release.

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Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20134Overview of key toolsDebug Layers.Ships in Windows SDK.Direct3D control panel.Ships in Windows SDK.Naming/tracing.Used by debug layers and other tools.WARP.Ships in Windows/implements features before hardware.Visual Studio graphics debugging.Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20135DemoDebug layers/DirectX CPL/WARP.Preventing common bugs.Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20136How to use debug layers in your app.Templates/samples now use layers for debug builds.How to annotate your code for tools.Name Direct3D objects.Tag sequences of Direct3D APIs for future analysis.Special advanced scenarios.Multithreadingdevice is multithreaded, context is not. Demo: Debug layer validation.Find memory leaks.DirectX control panel.Force feature level.Common bugs.Demo: recapBuild 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20137DemoDebugging your graphics.Visual Studio graphics debugging.Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20138What is new.More reliable and works with more types of applications.Remote graphics debugging for ARM.Capture/playback on different hardware.Available in Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows 8.1.

Demo:Basic visual studio usage.Performance improvements.Pipeline.Call stacks.Shader debugging.Demo: recapBuild 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/20139DemoValidating your applications.Get your game running everywhere.Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/201310Hardware differences.Key is testing.Diverse set of hardware.Use the simulators for hardware you dont have.Discuss differences.10L9.Normal map bias.Gamma blending hardware.Compressed textures.Multiple monitors.

Demo use simulator for.Display rotation.Scale.And DPI.

Demo: recapBuild 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/201311Use debug layers.Preventing common errors early.Annotate and namedo it now.You will be glad you did it later.Use Visual Studio graphics debugging.Especially for that hard-to-repro problem.Testing across all hardware types.Test ever feature level and across hardware generations.Use WARP for conformance and feature level testing.

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Build 2012 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.6/27/201312Other related talks TitleSession IDBuilding Games for Windows 8.1WCL-047Whats new in DirectX 11.2WCL-062DirectX Tiled ResourcesWCL-063DirectX Graphics Debugging ToolsWCL-141Bringing PC Games to the Windows StoreWCL-190Tales from the Trenches: Developing The Harvest and Gunpowder with UnityWCL-044Accelerating Windows Store App Development with MiddlewareWCL-187Creating Epic Game Experiences on Windows TabletsWCL-049From Android or iOS: Bringing Your OpenGL ES Game to the Windows StoreWCL-189Drop the Controller! How to Create Premium, High Fidelity Gaming Experiences for Windows TabletsWCL-043Play Together! Leaderboards with Windows Azure and Multiplayer with WiFi DirectWCL-051Innovations in High Performance 2D Graphics with DirectXWCL-191

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