See Also
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, or right-click it and select Graphics Monitor.TheGraphics Monitor Launcher Screenopens.
- In the Graphics MonitorLauncher screen, 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. Select the Trace mode to monitor real-time metrics and capture a trace.
- Stream. Choose this mode to capture a frame sequence until the application is stopped. Optionally, you can configure the Graphics Monitor to capture a specific graphics API. This can be useful if your application uses more than one API. To do this, enable theExtended Profiling Modestoggle in the Graphics MonitorSettingspane. The mode selector drop-down will feature entries that are specific to different graphics APIs.
- 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.
NOTE
If you are new to Intel® GPA, select
gpasample.exe
in the list of applications and click Start
. This will run a sample application with Intel® GPA instrumentation active, enabling you to quickly analyze the performance.
With this sample, you can verify the correct installation and operation of Intel® GPA. This is especially useful if your application appears to have problems when running with Intel® GPA.While working with the sample
gpasample.exe
, you can add more buttons to switch on/off 3D scene overrides:
- /OVERRIDES
- to change the GUI to display Toggle vsync, Toggle alpha blend, and Toggle depth test buttons. By default, the application does not show these buttons.