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Intel Releases PresentMon with a User-friendly Interface

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PresentMon is a popular utility that lets you analyze system latencies at a software level, helping you determine how the interplay between various hardware devices and their software contribute to various performance metrices, such as frame-rates, and frame-times. Developed by Intel engineer Jefferson Montgomery and first introduced to the public in 2017, PresentMon has been an SDK that other performance tools have leveraged, such as CapFrameX, NVIDIA FrameView, and GPUOpen OCAT. Intel decided to release PresentMon as an application with its own front-end that has Intel branding. The company will continue to enable PresentMon SDK for third-party applications.

The new Intel PresentMon beta application comes with a configurable overlay that has real-time graphing. It leverages the new GPU_busy performance counter that is the time between two presents (i.e. the time taken for the GPU to execute API commands issues by the CPU for the generation of a particular frame. The PresentMon application retains multi-vendor support—NVIDIA and AMD GPUs remain supported—as do AMD CPUs. It also retains support for all prevalent 3D graphics APIs, including DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL. For power-users, the PresentMon SDK and Overlay application will continue to be open-source and available on GitHub, and the company has only increased its usability by adding more commandline options. Everyone else can grab the ready-to-use Intel PresentMon Beta application from the Intel website.

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This is actually pretty neat just watched a video on GN about it.
 
The download link leads to Dropbox, and the .msi is not even cryptographically signed. It can hurt adoption because Windows doesn't trust files like that.
I was expecting Intel's releases to be a bit more professional...

The application itself is properly signed.
However it makes outgoing connections too Google's infrastructure, probably some kind of telemetry that isn't mentioned in the installer nor in the application itself. Might also be a consequence of it being a CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) application.

On the bright side, out-of-the-box experience is nice. A clean UI and sane default overlay settings. It works fine with my NVIDIA GPU too.

Edit: The Dropbox issue was fixed.
 
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Placeing the monitor was one issue I need to learn on multi screen setup
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The download link leads to Dropbox, and the .msi is not even cryptographically signed. It can hurt adoption because Windows doesn't trust files like that.
I was expecting Intel's releases to be a bit more professional...

The application itself is properly signed.
However it makes outgoing connections too Google's infrastructure, probably some kind of telemetry that isn't mentioned in the installer nor in the application itself. Might also be a consequence of it being a CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) application.

On the bright side, out-of-the-box experience is nice. A clean UI and sane default overlay settings. It works fine with my NVIDIA GPU too.

The download link does not go to dropbox, it goes to here-
https://game.intel.com/story/intel-presentmon
 
Placeing the monitor was one issue I need to learn on multi screen setup
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I just imagined what it would look like if I had three 55" TVs. But then I realized they wouldn't even fit in my room. :D

I'd love a 21:9 TV, though.
 
Tried it on some games and it's looking very good, however games like bf5 does not work and there is no overlay shown.
Oh also cpu utilization graph/readout does not work
 
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And there is another "Download" button on that site. It used to lead to Dropbox, but now it does lead to Amazon S3, which is a direct link. Looks like someone at Intel noticed and fixed it.

Windows 11 does not like this, not one little bit (think Dr Suess). Big red warning when I press the download button. Would try it otherwise.
 
Windows 11 does not like this, not one little bit (think Dr Suess). Big red warning when I press the download button. Would try it otherwise.
Yup, the .msi they serve is not cryptographically signed. Depending on Windows edition and settings potential users might not even be able to override that warning.
That has to be fixed when the tool comes out of beta.
Unfortunately no matter where you link to it will still arrive at the same installer .msi file that's not trusted, at least for now. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next version.
 
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