Can't make shaders get focus when debugging

Developer Tools Nsight Visual Studio Edition
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I am using Nsight 3.0 (build 3.0.0.13027) with Visual Studio 2010. I am using the release candidate version because it allows shader debugging locally with a single GPU.

According to the documentation, all I have to do to be able to debug my shaders is to compile them "using D3DXCompileShader, D3DX10CompileFromFile, etc. " with the flags D3DXSHADER_PREFER_FLOW_CONTROL | D3DXSHADER_DEBUG | D3DXSHADER_SKIPOPTIMIZATION. Since I am using DirectX 11, I am compiling my shaders with D3DX11CompileFromFileA as follows:

DWORD dwShaderFlags = D3DCOMPILE_ENABLE_STRICTNESS;
dwShaderFlags |= D3DCOMPILE_DEBUG | D3DCOMPILE_SKIP_OPTIMIZATION | D3DCOMPILE_WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS |
	     D3DXSHADER_DEBUG | D3DXSHADER_SKIPOPTIMIZATION  | D3DXSHADER_PREFER_FLOW_CONTROL;

D3DX11CompileFromFileA( 
		fileName, 
		defines, 
		nullptr, 
		entryPoint, 
		shaderModel, 
		              dwShaderFlags, 
		0, 
		nullptr, 
		ppBlobOut, 
		&pErrorBlob, 
		nullptr 
	);

Everything compiles and runs, but, when in Graphics Debugging mode, I cannot make my shaders appear in the Graphics Focus Picker after selecting them from the Shaders window.

Any help would be appreciated. Thx in advance.

2

I am using a GeForce GTX 680 (driver version 310.90), Windows 7 64 bits.

3

I just found out that all shader file names MUST have the extension “.hlsl” for Nsight to work properly :)

The problem I am having now is that, for some shaders, Nsight / the application / the driver crashes when a breakpoint is hit. Ironically enough, this does not happen with all shaders – just with the ones I want to debug the most…

4

Opening a new thread for the problem above

5

Replied you in the other thread. Highly recommend to try the new Nsight version and driver.

6

By the way, for “I just found out that all shader file names MUST have the extension “.hlsl” for Nsight to work properly :)”, please find #8 known issue in Nsight 3.0 release nots.
You can add your extension in Tools\Options\Text Editor\File Extension as C++ file type, that solves issue in auto window and hover tooltip.

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Thx a lot