FX Composer 2.5 Usability & Productivity

Siggraph 2008 9/12/2008 9:16 AM

©2008 NVIDIA Corporation 1

A New Generation of Performance Analysis and Shader Authoring Tools

Chris Maughan & Jeffrey Kiel

Agenda

FX Composer 2.5Shader DebuggerPerformance Tools

© NVIDIA Corporation 2008

FX Composer 2.5

Increase productivityRefine usabilityImprove stability Improve performance


Enable Direct3D10First host for the NVIDIA Shader Debugger

Usability & Productivity

Start PageEffect WizardToolbar

Large iconsB tt


Better menusGraphics API Toggle

Usability & Productivity

Automatic light bindingBind to nearest lightSAS driven

Code SnippetsCommonly used code


Commonly used codeUser-extensibleExamples

Textures and samplesTechniques and passesRender state blocks

New Sample Projects

Visual Styles350Z Atmospheric Scattering

© NVIDIA Corporation 2008 Simple ShadowsPost‐Processing

MaterialsPCSS Soft ShadowsDirectX 10

Ninja

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Models & StylesModels are complete files -DAE, FBX, etc.Styles are collections of material for a modelUpdate your model without fear of losing styles


g yUse models many times

In a sceneWith different styles

DirectX 10

Geometry shadersTexture arraysStream out


Picture includesExplosion(GS)Particles(GS,SO)Pipes(GS,TA,SO)

Simple Particle Systems

Simple emitters for designing effectsNot for complex simulation

Predefined templates to startFireSmoke


SmokeFireworksWater fountain

Customizable parameters

ShaderPerf 2.0

GeForce 8 Series support

Vertex and pixel shader analysis

Many supported shader formats


Many supported shader formats

Compare different techniques

See shader throughput, register usage, instruction counts, and branching performance

mental mill™ Artist Edition

Enables artists to quickly and easily develop and prototype new looks within a fast, flexible GUI.


NVIDIA Shader Debugger

Broad Language SupportHLSL10/9CgFXCOLLADA FX Cg

Step through shader


p gsource code

Visualize variables across your geometry

Plug‐in for FX Composer 2.5

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Run ControlFull control of shader execution

Next/Previous StatementRun to CursorRun to Bookmark


More Shader Debugger Features

Conditionally Kill Fragments


Visualize Any Variable

Create Custom Output Mappings

More Shader Debugger Features

Debug multi‐pass/full scene effects.


Map any variable to any channel.

Pick any technique in your shader to debug.

demo


Performance Tools UpdateShaderPerf 2.0PhysXPerfKit

PerfSDKgDEBuggerSneak peek at PerfHUD 6 5!


Sneak peek at PerfHUD 6.5!

ShaderPerf 2.0

Shader AnalysisCg, GLSL, HLSLAll NVIDIA GPUs since FX SeriesMultiple driver versions


Multiple use casesFX Composer IDE integrationCommand line

Script based testingIntegrate into source control for regression testing

ShaderPerfAPI: Dream up new uses!

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PhysX SDK: Enhancing Realism

Free binary version for Windows and LinuxLicensed source code version for


code version for Windows and Xbox

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/physx.html

PhysX ToolsPhysX Event Viewer

Graph physics engine eventsAnalyze usage and utilizationGeneral CPU usage and user events


PhysX HUDReal time PhysX DataIn application context

PerfKit Features

OpenGL and Direct3D, Windows and LinuxGPU & Driver counter data

Supports QuadroFX, GeForce 8, 9, and 200 seriesGPU tili ti d t i


GPU utilization data, variousprimitive counts, etc.Driver CPU usage, stalls, counts

PerfKit Features

Simplified Experiments: GPU Bottleneck and utilizationPerfAPI: counters and experiments integrated into your applicationGLExpert


GLExpertDebug runtime for OpenGLDriver performance gotchas, software fallbacks

NVIDIA Plug-in for Microsoft PIX for Windows

ADD SMALL PIC OF BOTTLNECK GRAPH

Graphic Remedy’s gDEBugger

OpenGL and OpenGL ES Debugger and Profiler


p p ggNVIDIA PerfKit and GLExpert integratedShorten development timeImprove application qualityOptimize performanceFind redundant function callsSupports Windows & LinuxDiscounted academic licenses available

http://www.gremedy.com

Graphic Remedy’s gDEBugger


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Introducing PerfHUD 6.5Save and load captures!

Capture the moment rendering or performance issues happenRemote collaboration on debugging and tuning tasksEase bug reproduction and


Ease bug reproduction and communication

Unified Driver on Windows VistaSLI Support: Specialized graphs and feedback

Introducing PerfHUD 6.5Powerful debugging features

Texture visualization modesAPI call data mining, analysis, and bug checkingShader visualization

Improved usability:


More hot keysMultiple graph configsDirect3D PerfMarkers

Bug Fixes: input module rewrite, improved stability

PerfHUD 6.5: Performance Dashboard

Graph GPU and driver dataEdit to suit your needs


Edit to suit your needsSLI Graph for multi-GPUAPI usage statistics

Crysis used with permission from Crytek. © Crytek GmbH. All Rights Reserved. Crysis and CryENGINE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Crytek GmbH in the U.S and/or other countries.

PerfHUD: Frame Debugger

Scrub through sceneVisualize draw call info


Textures and RTsTooltips on buffers


PerfHUD: Frame Debugger

Texture analysis: substitute precomputed texturesControllable through

Perf Markers



PerfHUD: Frame DebuggerBuffer Visualization

Visualize any buffer full screen2D/3D/Cube/Arrays


2D/3D/Cube/ArraysPan/ZoomChange mipmap level


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PerfHUD: Frame DebuggerAPI Call List

Based on a frame captureSee frame events,

including parametersTooltips for detailsC t d t bb


Connected to scrubber


PerfHUD: Frame DebuggerDraw Call Dependencies

Show producers&consumersdependencies for each call


callThese can hurt single

GPU and SLI performance


PerfHUD: Adv Frame DebuggerVertex Assembly

Geometry previewVertex and index buffer

setup


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PerfHUD: Adv Frame DebuggerVertex, Geometry and Pixel Shaders

Edit & continue shadersVisualize input texturesConstantsSampler overrides



PerfHUD: Adv Frame Debugger

Display and modify all render state settingsRender targets

displayed



PerfHUD: Frame ProfilerOne button bottleneck determination

All draw calls profiledDraw calls grouped by

state buckets: multiply performance optimizations


Multiple result graphs


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PerfHUD: Adv Frame Profiler

Same advanced features now in the profiling context



Questions ?

Downloadshttp://www.fxcomposer.comhttp://www.perfhud.comhttp://developer.nvidia.com/object/physx.html

Forums


Forumshttp://developer.nvidia.com/forums

[email protected]@nvidia.com

PerfKit 6

The NVIDIA Developer ToolkitThe NVIDIA Developer Toolkit

GPU Programming GuidePerfHUD 6

Conference Presentations

PerfSDK

SDK 10FX Composer 2.5

Texture Tools 2

Cg Toolkit

NVSG

Content CreationContent Creation Software Software DevelopmentDevelopment PerformancePerformance DocumentationDocumentation

Videos

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ShaderPerf 2

GLExpert

gDEBugger

NV PIX Plug-inMelody

Texture Tools 2 NVSG Videos

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