Win8 Metro App with DX11 Graphics Analysis won't run

Question

I'm trying to do a graphics diagnostics for a win8 metro app.

Pressing print screen while the app has focus makes the app pause for a second, but does not seem to have any other effect.

Pressing the camera icon to capture the next rendered frame results in the vsglog (and debug output spew) displaying "Unable to start the experiment session".

At device creation time I have D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG flag set. No other flags are set.

Is there something else I need to enable/disable to be able to run the analysis?

Answer 1

Hi,

Did you use some graphics diagnostics tool for Win8 metro, or you want to write such a app?

If you want to analyzing the performance for metro app, you can follow this document.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh696636(v=vs.110)

Best regards,
Jesse

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Jesse Jiang [MSFT]
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Answer 2

I'm trying to use VS 2012 Ultimate built in graphics diagnostics tool (the replacement for PIX).

Answer 3

I'm getting the sames issues with RTM, either I get "Unable to Start experiment sesión" (Mixed-GPU mode) or the capture of the frame nevers happen (Native mode)

Does this feature Works with metro style directx apps?

Answer 4

This feature does work with Metro apps. Can you try the default Direct3D game metro template? (should be under Visual C++ templates).

Answer 5

I had to disable a number of things in our code that are dependent upon mixed mode compilation (sign in, achievements, etc) but was able to get this to work in native mode.