Memory Profiler And Simulator for DirectX11 UMD Graphics Drivers

Abstract

Intel is entering into discrete Graphics card market. PC Gaming with DirectX11 is one of the major segment of discrete Graphics market. This project proposes to build a tool to profile the Graphics and system memory utilization of UMD (User mode driver) when running DX11 Games/Apps. Tool will use Microsoft ETW framework to log instrumented UMD messages and visually represent the data. As a next phase proposed tool will have simulator interface capabilities to debug the Memory Management algorithms of UMD. Hence, it uses ETL files to keep a track of resource creation, destruction, size calculation and allocation. Here at Intel, Intel Providers and Graphics manifest files are generated based on events that needs to be logged.