Details View

The details view displays whatever information you ask PIX to display. The information displayed is separated into different tabs; click on each tab to see that view of the information.

• Summary Tab - Displays basic information about the data collected.
• Render Tab - Displays the output render target data.
• Mesh Tab - Displays mesh data at various pipeline stages.
• Object Tabs - Optional tabs for displaying object data. These tabs are only displayed when you request them.

Summary Tab

The default details view contains information about basic information about the PIX data that is displayed.

By default, the details view always displays the summary tab, the render tab, and the mesh tab.

Render Tab

The render tab displays the rendered output of the current frame. Use it to view the rendered output of any frame, and the launch the shader debugger.

Mesh Tab

The mesh tab displays mesh data before and after shader processing.

Object Tabs

The details view displays a new tab each time you select a new object to view. Each tab displays detailed object data on an object. The following object types can be viewed.

• Buffer Tab
• Device Tab
• Shader Tab
• State-Block Tab
• Surface Tab
• Texture Tab
• Vertex-Declaration Tab

To view a new object, select the object in the object view or click an event with a blue pointer in the event view. The next time you view the same object, the object tab will already exist in the details view. To close a tab, click the black x to the right of the tab.

See Also

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