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New Tool Offers Look At Performance of UWP Games On Windows
Vigile writes: One of the concerns surrounding the recent debate of the Unified Windows Platform and games being released on it, such as the recent Gears of War Ultimate Edition, was the inability for media and consumers, and even entry level developers, to properly profile the performance of those applications. All of the standard testing applications like Fraps, FCAT and other overlays are locked out of UWP games. A Intel graphics engineer released a tool called PresentMon on GitHub yesterday that accesses event timers in Windows to monitor Present commands in any API, including DX11, DX12, Vulkan as well as games built on the Windows Store platform. Using this data, PC Perspective was able to profile the performance of the new Gears of War on PC, comparing frame time variability between the two flagship parts from NVIDIA and AMD. While it's not a perfect utility yet, there is hope now that this open source code will allow for performance metrics on any and all gaming titles.
I won't touch "UWP" infected games even with a ten foot pole.
You are our only hope!
. All of the standard testing applications like Fraps, FCAT and other overlays are locked out of UWP games.
If by "locked out" you mean, use different APIs and can't rely on 20 year old hooks but instead need to use the new modern hooks... then yeah you're "locked out". But that's a bit like saying that developers are "locked out" of Nvidia's next generation GPUs because there is no hardware to test on yet.
Big UWP AAA games have been out for about a month. Everyone is acting like it's a giant conspiracy that SLI and VSync is a little glitch on a platform that has only ever seen a single game released. Jesus, give them a month or two to work out the bugs. And don't act like the need for new using different hooks on a different platform is some grand scheme to lock out debugging tools. "Breaking news, Visual Studio not able to debug Linux application using windows debug and profiling tools!"
Except this is less accurate (it measures frame rates much earlier in the pipeline; well before the frame is actually rendered by the driver) and it's impossible to do any kind of overlay, look for dropped frames, measure tearing, etc.
If you fall for Windows Store and Microsoft's desire for a total walled garden approach in Windows 10 your a full on chump. Microsoft has taken to renaming and re-enabling there spying telemetry service after users turned it off.
http://bgr.com/2015/12/01/windows-10-privacy-preferences/
It's no longer your computer this is a complete outrage where the hell is the DOJ on this? I have been a Linux admin since the 90s and I have used it on the desktop on and off never really being able to stick with it because my games were on Windows. Well, this tears it for me I am out. I will take what I can get on SteamOS there is enough there to keep me entertained.
Unified Windows Platform
Vigile, this is the second post in the past week where you used the wrong term for UWP. It is the Universal Windows Platform.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
i'm not a windows user, but followed the whole UWP debate here and on some other sites, not once did i read that benchmarking was THE concern eveybody had with UWP.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
I thought it was the Unattractive Windows Platform?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.