Best Practice
For optimal performance we recommend that you:
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Run the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer, Intel® GPA System Analyzer, or Intel® GPA Platform Analyzer on a 64-bit operating system with at least 4 GB of memory (the more complex your game data, the more memory is needed).
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Disable as many other non-essential processes as possible (including screen savers) in order to ensure good performance and accurate metrics.
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Run the game in full-screen mode to avoid GPU overhead of Windows* desktop and other processes.
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Once you captured frame and trace capture files, exit your game before starting the Intel GPA Frame Analyzer or Intel GPA Platform Analyzer, to assure maximum resources are available for the Intel® GPA application.
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When targeting lower performance computers, such as Netbooks, or analyzing complex games and complex capture files, you should run the Intel GPA tools as follows:
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In client/server configuration; refer to Running the Intel® GPA System Analyzer in Network Mode
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Run your target application on a Netbook via the Intel® GPA Monitor > Analyze Application…
- Run the Intel GPA System Analyzer, Intel GPA Frame Analyzer, or Intel GPA Platform Analyzer on a 64-bit operating system with at least 4 GB of memory (recommended)
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