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May 21st, 2012


Introduction

Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) is a powerful, agile developer tool suite for analyzing and optimizing games, media, and other graphics-intensive applications.

We are proud to announce the availability of Intel GPA 2012 R3, which contains new features requested by developers.

The product is available at no charge to developers -- to download the product, visit the Intel GPA Home Page, then look for the "Download" button in the upper right-hand corner of the page.


Overview of the Release
  • Intel GPA 2012 R3 includes the following new features and benefits (see the online help for more information):
    • General
      • Possibility to analyze applications that have exception handling enabled in their game engine.
      • Possibility to filter which applications are enabled for the "Auto-detect launched applications" option.
      • Added support of systems based upon 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors, commonly known as "Ivy Bridge" systems, which include either Intel HD Graphics 2500 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU's.
      • Added limited support of the February Consumer Preview build of Microsoft Windows 8* applications running as Desktop/Classic applications. See this article for details on the platforms supported in this release.
    • Intel GPA Frame Analyzer
      • Frames load up to 50% faster when running on processors utilizing Intel® Processor Graphics.
      • All user interface settings, sizes, and slider positions are saved for subsequent runs of the tool.
      • Added the “Shader Constants” tab to view captured frames.
      • Enhanced the “Texture Hex” viewer to better utilize available screen space.
    • Intel GPA Platform Analyzer
      • Fully integrated the Intel GPA Media Performance Analyzer data with other ITT trace API's, enabling analysis of Media performance fully integrated with other platform data.
      • Added support of the Direct Trace API, enabling you to import virtually any data into the Intel GPA Platform Analyzer.
      • Added support of Active Time metrics (that is, the time a processor is actually running for a selected set of tasks).
    • Intel GPA System Analyzer
      • Added support of a new "System View,” which provides metrics across the entire system, not just for a single application.
      • Added a new metric “CPU Frequency”.
  • In order to focus efforts on newer operating systems and technologies, Microsoft* Windows XP* and Microsoft* Vista* are no longer supported in this version of Intel GPA.
  • Please review the Release Notes for information on installing, configuring, and using Intel GPA.

Where To Next...

To start using Intel GPA, check out the Online Help that is available through the Microsoft Windows* Start Menu for the Intel GPA product. For those who have not used Intel GPA before, become familiar with key Intel GPA concepts by reading the Intel GPA Getting Started Guide.

Want more info on Intel GPA? Check out either the Intel GPA Home Page, the Intel GPA FAQ, or the Intel GPA Knowledge Base articles. There's also a Product Brief for the GPA 2012 release.

We want to be the best tool for your graphics optimization work, and welcome your comments and suggestions in the Intel GPA Support Forum.

PS-> By the way, if you were using Version 2012 R1 of Intel GPA, you did not miss version 2012 R2 of Intel GPA -- the R2 version was never released as a product.


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