NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 4.0 Release Candidate 1 Available Under Early Access Program

The first release candidate of NVIDIA Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 4.0 is now available under Nsight Visual Studio Edition Registered Developer Program Early Access. This new release adds support for the new Maxwell GPU architecture, completely redesigned Frame Debugger for users of Microsoft® DirectX™, dynamic shader editing for GLSL shaders, byte code-level debugging for HLSL shaders, CUDA 6.0, and Visual Studio 2013.

Please note that this release of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition requires NVIDIA Display Driver Release 332 or newer.

Register for free access to the Early Access Program.

Here are a few highlights of the new NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 4.0:

• Support for the new Maxwell architecture (for example, found in the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and 750) and new various GPUs.
• Support for the CUDA 6.0 Toolkit.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is now supported.
• Redesigned NVIDIA Frame Debugger.
• Updates to frame profiler, pixel history, and geometry viewer.
• Dynamic shader editing is now available for GLSL shaders.
• Debugging of release compiled HLSL shaders at the byte code level.
• Visual Studio visualization and project authoring enhancements.

For a full list of new features, please see 4.0 New Features.

We encourage all users to send feedback and report issues at the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition forums or within the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Registered Developer Program to help improve the quality of the software for future releases.

Sign up for free NVIDIA GameWorks Hand-On Sessions @ GDC 2014

The Developer Tools team will be in San Francisco at Game Developer Conference 2014 hosting dedicated hands-on sessions with the latest Nsight Visual Studio Edition and Tegra developments tools on the latest NVIDIA Tegra K1.

For each session, the first 30 developers to check-in in person and have registered online for the Tegra K1 Developers Tools labs will receive a NVIDIA SHIELD Developer Kit. So hurry andreserved a spot online before someone else does!

Secure your spot now at NVIDIA Developer.

--NVIDIA Developer Tools Team