Launching an Application Manually
Pre-requisites:
Before launching your application for analysis:
- Launch the Graphics Monitor on your target system.The Graphics Monitor icon appears in the taskbar notification area.
To run your application manually with the System Analyzer HUD enabled:
- Double-click the Graphics Monitor icon
in the taskbar notification area.TheGraphics Monitor Launcher Screenopens. - In theGraphics Monitor Launcherscreen, select an application for analysis:
- In theCommand Linefield, browse to your application or enter the full application path. You can also enter any command-line options required to run your application.If the path to the application contains spaces, put the path inquotation marks.
- If you already analyzed your application with Intel® GPA, you can select the application from the list of recently run applications.
- (Optional) In theWorking Directoryfield, type the directory in which the application should run. This is useful for games that use a launcher or mission packs located in a different directory than the game files.
- (Optional) In theEnvironment Variablesfield, type environment variables for the application.
- Choose one of the following modes to startup an application:
- Frame.Choose this mode to monitor real-time metrics and capture a frame.
- Trace. Click the
button to select the Trace mode to monitor real-time metrics and capture a trace. - Stream. Choose this mode to capture frame sequence till the application is stopped.
- ClickStartto launch the application with the System Analyzer HUD overlay.You can press CTRL+F1 to toggle between different display modes and view real-time metrics and the available override modes.