Nsight 2018.5.2.0 (Build 25032838) No Hardware signals found

The troubleshooting section for “No Hardware signals found” could use a clarification.

  1. You are running Nsight Graphics with a Kepler or lower GPU.
  2. You are using a defunct or non-NVIDIA GPU.
  3. You are attempting to profile a debug build of the project.

The part 3 should state that “debug build” means “don’t attach DirectX debug layers to the device”.
(so it does not mean shaders being built with disabled optimizations etc.)

Hi Aleksi,

Thank you for pointing this out! We will add this to the list of updates for the next pass at the documentation. I’ll put a link to the updated docs here once they are available.

Again, thank you for letting us know about the need for clarification!

Cheers,
Seth

Hi Aleksi,

We updated the documentation in the latest release to include the clarification you mentioned! Thanks again for helping point this out!

https://docs.nvidia.com/nsight-graphics/UserGuide/index.html#range_profiler

Cheers,
Seth