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Here is the list of all Intel GPA Show Me videos. If you have any questions, issues or feedback, visit the Intel® GPA Support Forum. You can save a high quality video on your machine by clicking the Download link.

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Intel® GPA Monitor:How to launch your game with Intel® GPA This video shows how to use the Intel® GPA tool to launch your graphics application.
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Intel® GPA Monitor: How to make Intel® GPA automatically detect launched D3D applications This video shows how to make Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers automatically detect launched D3D applications.
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Intel® GPA Monitor: How to change the trace capture and frame capture options by modifying the profile settings
 This video shows how to change the trace capture and frame capture options by modifying the profile settings with the Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers tool.
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Intel® GPA System Analyzer: How to get started with the tool
 This video shows how to get started with the tool and benefit from it.
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Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer: Getting to know key Frame Analyzer concepts
 This video shows the set of Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer panels that help you navigate the data and control the various experiments and view the results of these experiments.
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Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer: Comparing the Relationship Between Metrics This video shows how to compare the relations between metrics with the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer.
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Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer: Discovering the Most Expensive Ergs within the Captured Scene This video shows how to use the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer to find the most expensive ergs.
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Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer: Modifying DirectX* State This video shows how to use the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer to change some of the DirectX* states in order to fix the scene and immediately see how the modified state affects it.
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Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer: How to modify shaders in order to improve performancee This video shows how to use the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer to create or modify shaders to see whether changes result in reduced rendering time with an acceptable level of overall scene quality.
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Shadow Explorer

Shadow Explorer is a sample application, with source code, that allows developers to work with several shadowing techniques, examine the performance versus quality tradeoffs of each one, and discover which is best suited for their game. In this first version of Shadow Explorer, we include four algorithms for evaluation: simple shadow maps, percentage closer shadow maps, variance shadow maps and exponential variance shadow maps. Each method is optimized for performance and exposes several variables, which allow the developer to further refine the technique in real time. Additionally, two scenes are provided to enable the developer to explore the strengths of each technique on different types of geometry.


Updated 7/14/2011: EVSM updates to respond to developer feedback.
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The Shadow Explorer configured to show Exponential Variance Shadow Maps with 5 cascades.

Visualizing the shadow map cascades within Shadow Explorer.

The light space and the cascades can be visualized concurrently as the user changes multiple shadow techniques and inputs in real time.


System Requirements Additional Code Samples
  1. CPU: Dual core or better (Intel® Core™ i5 or better suggested)
  2. GFX: DX9c capable graphics card
  3. OS: Microsoft Windows Vista* or Microsoft Windows 7*
  4. MEM: 2 GB of RAM or better
  5. Software:
    o DirectX SDK (June 2010 release or later)
    o Build with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008* w/SP1 or Visual Studio 2010*

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.


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About Intel® OpenCL SDK

About OpenCL™
OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language) is the first open, royalty-free standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. OpenCL provides a uniform programming environment for software developers to write efficient, portable code for client computer systems, high-performance computing servers, and handheld devices using a diverse mix of multi-core CPUs and other parallel processors.

About Intel® OpenCL SDK 1.5
Available for free download, the Intel® OpenCL SDK 1.5 makes it easy for OpenCL developers to design, build, debug, and profile OpenCL applications running on the CPU device.

Intel® OpenCL SDK is the Intel implementation of the OpenCL standard optimized for Intel processors, running on Microsoft* Windows*, and Linux* operating systems. Intel® OpenCL SDK 1.5 is fully conformant with the OpenCL 1.1 specification for the CPU, and with Microsoft* Windows* 7 operating systems

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OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. used by permission by Khronos.

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