Troubleshooting the Intel® GPA Monitor
The following table lists solutions for some of the known issues you may encounter when working with the Intel® GPA Monitor.
Symptom |
Possible Cause |
Solution |
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When I run the Intel® GPA System Analyzer HUD or the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer, I see “Warning: Unsupported GPU in target system. Please consult the documentation for supported system configurations. GPA will attempt to run, but may encounter errors. Do you wish to continue?” |
The monitor is running on a target machine with an unsupported GPU, such as a non-Intel GPU. |
See the Intel GPA Release Notes for a list of supported GPUs. |
I see a “The application being profiled has exited” warning. |
The target application was closed, or it crashed.
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Run a new experiment with the Intel GPA System Analyzer HUD to profile the application again. |
I see an “Instrumented driver is not installed” error. |
The Intel GPA Monitor is running on a PC without the Intel instrumented graphics drivers. |
Install the latest Intel instrumented graphics drivers. |
I see a “The application is not a Microsoft DirectX* program, so the frame cannot be captured” error. |
The target application is not a Microsoft DirectX* program. The Intel® GPA software does not support capturing frames from non-DirectX* programs (such as OpenGL*). |
Profile a Microsoft DirectX* application. |
The application or code protection technique preventing from instrumentation. | ||
When I launch an application with the Intel® GPA Platform Analyzer or the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer, I see a “Failed to launch application” error. |
An incorrect path or application name was used. |
Check the path and application name. Make sure the application exists on the target machine. |
When I launch an application with the Intel® GPA Platform Analyzer or the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer, I see an “Incorrect directory” error. |
An incorrect working directory name was used. |
Check the path to the working directory. Make sure the directory exists on the target machine. |