--- title: Analyze Your Game With PIX - Game Optimization - Episode 7 description: In this video I show how to use Microsoft PIX to analyze your game. PIX shows you everything the GPU is doing to render a frame and how long it takes so you... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/analyze-your-game-with-pix---game-optimization---episode-7-5nsazjqsj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Analyze Your Game With PIX - Game Optimization - Episode 7 | daily.dev og:description: In this video I show how to use Microsoft PIX to analyze your game. PIX shows you everything the GPU is doing to render a frame and how long it takes so you... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/analyze-your-game-with-pix---game-optimization---episode-7-5nsazjqsj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5NsAZJqsJ.png og:image:alt: Analyze Your Game With PIX - Game Optimization - Episode 7 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Analyze Your Game With PIX - Game Optimization - Episode 7 **[Ben Cloward](https://daily.dev/sources/bencloward)** · 31 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In this video I show how to use Microsoft PIX to analyze your game. PIX shows you everything the GPU is doing to render a frame and how long it takes so you can discover targets for optimization. Here's the link for downloading PIX: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pix/download/ Here's last week's video about what to do if you're GPU bound: https://youtu.be/hjjodpsZ70Q Take a look at the playlist for the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lG4wvgfyGECmB8XiJLCgfFD Shader Book Recommendations https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml ------------------------------ Theme Music Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526 Background Music Speo - The Little Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCYuyyLgC0 #UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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