Visual Studio 2012, Direct3D 11.1, and CUDA 5.5

Visual Studio 2012, Direct3D 11.1, and CUDA 5.5 support now available in Early Access of NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 3.1

Download the latest version of NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 3.1 Release Candidate available under Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Registered Developer Program Early Access now! This new early access release candidate officially supports Visual Studio 2012, Direct3D 11.1 and the new CUDA 5.5.

Please note that this release of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition requires NVIDIA Display Driver Release 319 or newer.

• Visual Studio 2012 is now supported.
• Direct3D 11.1 is now supported.
• Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems are now supported.
• Support for the CUDA 5.5 Toolkit.
• Support for Direct State Access (DSA) feature of OpenGL.
• Improved Frame Debugger's event view and performance overhead improvements when tracing DirectX or OpenGL applications.

We encourage all users to try the early access release of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 3.1 Release Candidate, available for download under Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Early Access (login to Registered Developer Program required). Please send feedback and report bugs within the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Registered Developer Program to help improve the quality of the software for final release.

Note: Starting with Nsight Visual Studio Edition 3.1, standalone Nsight Visual Studio installers DO NOT contain the CUDA toolkit bundled in it. If you are interested in using the compute feature set of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition you will need to download and install the CUDA 5.5 toolkit available separately at http://www.nvidia.com/getcuda in order to build CUDA applications.