Nsight Graphics 2019.2 is now available!


NVIDIA® Nsight™ Graphics 2019.2 is now available.


NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2019.2 is now available for download! Version 2019.2 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Feature Enhancement: Range Profiler

  • Vulkan Support - Inspect GPU performance metrics for whole perfmarker regimes, render passes, and single events
  • DXR BuildRaytracingAccelerationStructure calls can now be profiled
  • New Range Profiler Preview
  • ---Configure sections to customize the profiling experience
  • ---Introduce rules to create warnings based on GPU performance counter values within the configurable Range Profiler
  • Feature Enhancement: Nsight Aftermath (Beta)

  • DXR Support - Trace GPU hangs or crashes back to the specific DXR shader
  • Feature Enhancement: GPU Trace

  • D3D12 Fence visualization - View Waits and Signals in the new Synchronization row
  • Feature Enhancement: Acceleration Structure Viewer

  • Configure camera speed and camera orientation
  • Visualize geometry setup flags by utilizing highlight-based filtering
  • AABB and bounding box visualization
  • Feature Enhancement: API Inspector

  • Event number and performance markers are now visible in the API inspector for greater event context
  • Trimmed D3D11 and D3D12 strings in the API inspector to increase information density
  • New Support: D3D12 Meshlets NVAPI

  • added support for Mesh Shaders in D3D12 via NVAPI
  • New Feature: Feedback Button

  • Integrated a feedback button into Nsight Graphics to make sending comments, bugs, and feature requests easier
  • Improved:

  • Running Steam games with Nsight Graphics on Linux is now much easier with new injection method
  • Known Issues

  • Running GPU Trace with elevated privileges and restrictive GPU counter access will cause a the target application to crash. To work around this issue, please set GPU counter access to permissive in the NVIDIA control panel.
  • Nsight Aftermath DXR support will be fully enabled with the mid-April release of the NVIDIA graphics driver
  • Sometimes synchronization objects collection fails when collect a GPU Trace. A fix will be released shortly after the release.
  • Release Spotlight Video:

    Download Nsight Graphics 2019.2 here: https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworksdownload#?dn=nvidia-nsight-graphics-2019-2