graphics-memory-analyzer

Graphics Memory Analyzer

DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs provide developers with low-level control over graphics memory management. This allows developers to optimize their applications for specific hardware configurations. However, usage of physical memory must be managed within the budget assigned to the application process. Processes that cannot limit their usage within their assigned budgets will likely experience stuttering, as they are intermittently frozen and paged-out to allow other processes to run.

The Graphics Memory Analyzer visualizes graphics memory allocations collected using the memory-layer to show the target process GPU heap/resource allocations and related statistics (e.g., total GPU memory usage) over time.

Most users will only need to install the latest release from:

https://github.com/intel-sandbox/applications.analyzers.gpa.frontend.graphics-memory-analyzer/releases

Additional information is available in install\controls.csv, known-limitations.md and release-notes.md.

To build a local version from source:

• Install Node.js 18.10+ and configure your npm proxy and registry settings:

  winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS && npm config set proxy=http://proxy-us.intel.com:912 && npm config set https-proxy=http://proxy-us.intel.com:912 && npm config set registry=https://registry.npmjs.com

• Get the source code:

  git clone https://github.com/intel-sandbox/applications.analyzers.gpa.frontend.graphics-memory-analyzer

• From the project directory:

  cd applications.analyzers.gpa.frontend.graphics-memory-analyzer

• Install the dependent modules:

  npm install

• Open the folder in VSCode and press F5, or from the command line:

  npm start

To release an improved version:

• Upload source changes to github and increment the package(.json) version following https://semver.org

  git push

• Build the release, and upload it to github:

  npm publish

• Review, approve, test and deploy the (draft) release: https://github.com/intel-sandbox/applications.analyzers.gpa.frontend.graphics-memory-analyzer/releases