The PIX for Windows Application

PIX implements a user interface for collecting and analyzing data.

PIX Main Window - The PIX main window is the first thing that the user sees when running PIX. The window is the starting point for creating experiments, opening PIXRun files, or comparing images.
Experiment Files - PIX uses an experiment to save and restore initial conditions before collecting data. There are two views for configuring an experiment: a basic view, which contains default settings to get you started, and an advanced view that allows you to completely customize the data that you want PIX to collect.
Image Files - Render frames and save them as screen shots; then, use PIX to compare image quality between frames to debug rendering problems.
Run Files - Once you have generated data for analysis (by using an experiment), PIX implements several views for analyzing the data. Some views display information that is meaningful to all API calls (such as statistics), while other views display object-specific data into the pipeline data and pipeline state stored in the many Direct3D objects.

Command-Line Syntax - Use the command line to run PIX.