NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition brings GPU computing into Microsoft Visual Studio (including multiple instances of VS2017). This application development environment for GPUs allows you to build, debug, profile and trace heterogeneous compute, graphics, virtual reality, and UWP applications built with CUDA C/C++, OpenCL, DirectCompute, Direct3D, Vulkan API, OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK.
The CUDA Debugger helps you debug applications that use the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). You can set breakpoints in CUDA source code, inspect memory, view the values of local variables, perform memory checks, as well as other common debugging tasks. You can use the CUDA Debugger with applications built with the CUDA Runtime (CUDART) API or with the CUDA Driver API.
v3.1 [Jun 2, 2013]
- Generation of a crash report file (minidump) when the target application crashes.
Graphics Debugging and Profiling
- Debugging in Visual Studio 2012 is now supported.
- Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.
- Direct3D 11.1 is now supported.
- Support for Direct State Access (DSA) feature of OpenGL.
- Support for version 46 of the Microsoft HLSL compiler that exports pdb based debug information.
- OpenGL scissor state is now displayed on the host.
- Improvements to the Frame Debugger's event view.
Compute Debugging
- Support for the CUDA 5.5 Toolkit.
- Support for Visual Studio 2012.
- Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.
System Trace and Compute Profiling
- Support for the CUDA 5.5 Toolkit.
- Support for Visual Studio 2012.
- Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.
- Support Direct State Access (DSA) feature of OpenGL.
- Improved performance overhead when tracing DirectX or OpenGL applications.
- Added the SM pipeline utilization experiment.
