dx11 drawIndexed cost overhead time

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming DX11

Started by poigwym August 17, 2016 02:37 AM

5 comments, last by Hodgman 7 years, 8 months ago

poigwym

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August 17, 2016 02:37 AM

The scene is a box draw with a simple shader.

In a demo the drawIndexed cost 0.000160 ms, but in my engine cost 0.1 ms.

They use same mesh, same input layout, same shader, same renderstate .

Why drawIndexed cost so much? I 'm not sure the if drawIndexed return immediate or not ?

I 'm suspect that the quicker one use a defered context and the slower one use async context, they are in c++ project.

However they use the same code to create context :

UINT createDeviceFlags = 0;

#if defined(DEBUG) || defined(_DEBUG)

createDeviceFlags |= D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG;

#endif

D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL featureLevel;

HRESULT hr = D3D11CreateDevice(

0, // default adapter

_driverType,

0, // no software device

createDeviceFlags,

0, 0, // default feature level array

D3D11_SDK_VERSION,

&_device,

&featureLevel,

&_context);

Have you ever meet this situation ? one draw call cost a great num of time.

Would wrong state will cause drawIndexed slower?

Hodgman

52,717

August 17, 2016 03:19 AM

Yes, all D3D drawing functions are async, in that they just push commands into a queue, and the GPU consumes that queue at a (much) later point in the future.

When you run your game with D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG, do any warnings or errors get printed to the visual studio Output window?
BTW, instead of using an #ifdef for this, I find that it's very useful to allow a command line argument to determine whether this flag will be used, so that it's possible to enable D3D debugging in a release build when required.

To make sure that you're not generating any warnings or errors, run this code after you create the device, which tells Visual Studio to trigger a breakpoint when any D3D warnings/errors occur:

ID3D11InfoQueue* m_debugInfoQueue = 0;
m_device->QueryInterface(IID_ID3D11InfoQueue, (void**)&m_debugInfoQueue);
if (m_debugInfoQueue)
{
	m_debugInfoQueue->SetBreakOnSeverity( D3D11_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_CORRUPTION, TRUE );
	m_debugInfoQueue->SetBreakOnSeverity( D3D11_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_ERROR, TRUE );
	m_debugInfoQueue->SetBreakOnSeverity( D3D11_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_WARNING, TRUE );
}

Lastly, are you testing a debug build or a release build? :)

. 22 Racing Series .

poigwym

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August 17, 2016 03:40 AM

Lastly, are you testing a debug build or a release build? :)

I have not make any product , so all my program are DEBUG version.

How to paste code like yours ? and how to make this thing -> :) ?

I shut down all warnings.. I run you code and crash.

poigwym

303

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August 17, 2016 03:52 AM

The biggest difference I think is my engine open a c++ console for printing message.

Hodgman

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August 17, 2016 05:28 AM

I have not make any product , so all my program are DEBUG version.

Debug builds will always be extremely slow - never use them for testing performance.
Specifying the D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG flag when creating a D3D device will ruin performance too.

How to paste code like yours ?


[code]blah[/code]

I run you code and crash.

Where and what kind?

. 22 Racing Series .

poigwym

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Author

August 17, 2016 07:07 AM

I have not make any product , so all my program are DEBUG version.

Debug builds will always be extremely slow - never use them for testing performance.
Specifying the D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG flag when creating a D3D device will ruin performance too.

You are right !! I shut down the D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG and can easily draw thousands of boxes over 100 + fps.

But if I switch to RELEASE version, how can I debug ? Those debug info will be dumped. I 'm coding on visual stdio 2013.

Hodgman

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August 17, 2016 07:10 AM

You should use visual studio's debug builds when you want to use breakpoints to step through your code line by line, and otherwise use release.

You should use the D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG flag to check for errors in your usage of the D3D API, and otherwise disable that flag.

i.e. switch back and forth between these 4 different modes depending on your current task.

. 22 Racing Series .

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