Nsight Visual Studio Edition 3.1 New Features

This new release officially supports Visual Studio 2012, Direct3D 11.1, Direct State Access (DSA) of OpenGL, and the new CUDA 5.5?.

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New NVIDIA? Nsight? Visual Studio Edition 3.1 Features:

• Generation of a crash report file (minidump) when the target application crashes.

Graphics Debugging and Profiling

• Debugging in Visual Studio 2012 is now supported.
• Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.
• Direct3D 11.1 is now supported.
• Support for Direct State Access (DSA) feature of OpenGL.
• Support for version 46 of the Microsoft HLSL compiler that exports pdb based debug information.
• OpenGL scissor state is now displayed on the host.
• Improvements to the Frame Debugger's event view.

Compute Debugging

• Support for the CUDA 5.5 Toolkit.
• Support for Visual Studio 2012.
• Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.

System Trace and Compute Profiling

• Support for the CUDA 5.5 Toolkit.
• Support for Visual Studio 2012.
• Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.
• Support Direct State Access (DSA) feature of OpenGL.
• Improved performance overhead when tracing DirectX or OpenGL applications.
• Added the new SM pipeline utilization experiment.