PIXScopedEvent - XBOX Game Development Documentation

These functions create a user-defined event for a timing capture of CPU activity, to be displayed in the Timing Capture feature of Performance Investigator for XBOX (PIX). Events defined by calling PIXScopedEvent begin when the API is called and end when the enclosing scope exits.

Overload list

Name	Description
PIXScopedEvent(UINT64, PCSTR, …)	Creates a user-defined event for a timing capture of CPU activity, to be displayed in the Timing Capture feature of Performance Investigator for XBOX (PIX).
PIXScopedEvent(UINT64, PCWSTR, …)	Creates a user-defined event for a timing capture of CPU activity, to be displayed in the Timing Capture feature of Performance Investigator for XBOX (PIX).
PIXScopedEvent(void*, UINT64, PCSTR, …)	Creates a user-defined event for a context-specific timing capture of CPU activity or, for XBOX only, GPU activity, to be displayed in the Timing Capture feature of Performance Investigator for XBOX (PIX).
PIXScopedEvent(void*, UINT64, PCWSTR, …)	Creates a user-defined event for a context-specific timing capture of CPU activity or, for XBOX only, GPU activity, to be displayed in the Timing Capture feature of Performance Investigator for XBOX (PIX).

Conceptual documentation

ATG Systems Engagement Checklist

See also

PIX (NDA topic)
PIX3

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