Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers 2024.2 Release is Out!

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Hello All,
The Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers team is proud to announce Intel® GPA 2024.2!

You can download Intel® GPA 2024.2 for FREE from the Intel® GPA homepage.

Watch the full Release Video from the GPA website, or on Intel's YouTube channel.

Graphics Frame Analyzer

• Enhanced shader analysis: Added compiler flags and ISA assembly headers. Enabled the ISA code update for an experiment with shader code modification.
• Improved visualization for graphics pipeline states and added error messaging for an experiment with pipeline state modification.
• Added new accessibility settings in Graphics Frame Analyzer, including three options for the Color Blindness scheme and the Use Patterns mode.

Intel® GPA Framework

• Enhanced single-threaded and multithreaded playback with up to a 50% performance improvement for Direct3D* 12.
• Enabled support for the majority of interfaces defined in the latest Agility SDK (version 10.0.26100)
• Significantly increased stability with improvements and bug fixes.
• Support for Vulkan SDK version 1.3.280.0.
• Added preliminary support for the dynamic rendering extension in Vulkan* applications. 

All Tools

• Enhanced UX/UI in Graphics Monitor to improve usability and product onboarding.
• The "Send Feedback" functionality was removed from all tools. We encourage continuing to ask feedback and questions for the GPA development team here on the Community Forum.
• Deprecation notice: We have deprecated Dependency Viewer in Intel® GPA. This functionality will be removed from the Intel® GPA releases starting with version 2024.4.

Note: The Frame Analyzer Shader Profiler is disabled for graphics drivers 31.0.101.5590 and later. To use shader profiling, please downgrade the graphics driver to 31.0.101.5522.

For full release notes, see here.