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thenerd
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 02:51
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Well, I found this tool called PerfHUD...it profiles your DirectX program and lets you do all sorts of cool debugging. The website is here at http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvperfhud_home.html. The problem with the tool is that you need to add a few lines to the Directx initialization in your program, but as far as I know there is no way of doing that, because DBpro is closed source, right? If anyone knows anything about this, that'd be awesome, because I have absolutely no idea what to do when it comes to DirectX and C++.

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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 05:57 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 07:51
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does it work in gdk?
apparently so, im going to test it out quickly.

according to the documentation you can test it on these games: (and of course more)

Unreal Tournament 3
(Epic Games)
Company of Heroes
(Relic Entertainment)
Crysis
(Crytek)
EVE Online
(CCP Games)
World of Warcraft
(Blizzard Entertainment)
Battlefield 2142
(DICE)
Hellgate: London
(Flagship Studios)
Gamebryo
(Emergent Technologies)
Guild Wars
(ArenaNet)

i tried it on guildwars and some of its demos, nothing happened for me.
either my pc doesnt support it or somethings wrong =/

Smoke me a kipper, ill be back for breakfast.
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Duke E
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 10:31
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I downloaded it and was going to install it but i discovered it requires new special (debug) NVidia graphics drivers included in the installation package. I opted to not install it on my computer at that time. With that in mind uninstalling the original drivers before installation may be necessary to get it working. I may have a second look later and install it on a noncritical test rig.


Quote: "The problem with the tool is that you need to add a few lines to the Directx initialization in your program"

In DBPro 7.4 there was some commands added for this:
* Added new command: SET NVPERFHUD Flag (0=use HAL and 1=use NVPerfHUD HEL mode)
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=149698&b=1

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thenerd
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 17:13
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Quote: "In DBPro 7.4 there was some commands added for this:
* Added new command: SET NVPERFHUD Flag (0=use HAL and 1=use NVPerfHUD HEL mode)
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=149698&b=1"

Ok, that command worked, I discovered also that it doesn't like fullscreen or vsync, but with those off, it works perfect! although you need the special driver for the graphs, there are still a lot of things that don't need the driver for. I love the slider that lets you cycle through all the drawing routines.

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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 17:33
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How about a screenshot of it in action?

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thenerd
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 18:10 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 18:10
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here's one of the graphs:


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thenerd
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 18:15 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 18:15
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and then another one of the debugger. The slider lets you cycle through every drawing routine, and see step by step what the program is doing.


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thenerd
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 18:31 Edited at: 9th Sep 2010 18:32
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third, this time the example is more interesting...


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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 18:41
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Cool, that gives an idea what you can get from it. Thanks!

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