RAD Telemetry 1.1L Released!

Welcome to the August 2012 release of RAD Telemetry!  This is mostly a maintenance release, however there is one significant feature that some customers have requested -- the Visualizer is now available for Linux!  Currently it's in beta and supports Ubuntu (32 and 64-bit) and Gnome.

Run-Time

• Enhancement: PS3: stackwalking is now more robust and no longer requires debug library support (-ldbg)
• Change: PS3: We now build against SDK 3.7.0
• Change: WiiU: SDK 2.06.02 is now supported (and required)
• Change: minor bugfixes and changes

Visualizer

• Enhancement: beta support for running on Linux (Ubuntu 32/64 with Gnome/Nautilus)
• Enhancement: OS X: Should now have feature parity with Windows version
• Enhancement: Experimental "sort by duration" option when finding zones
• Change: minor bugfixes and changes

Server

• Change: Minor bugfixes and changes

Other

• Change: minor update to UE3 integration documentation

RAD Telemetry 1.1k released!

That was quick!

We found a bug in 1.1j that necessitated a quick release with a bugfix.  The bug only affected those who had been using 1.1j either as an upgrade or for evaluation.

EDIT: 1.1k now has WiiU support, including support for the latest Nintendo SDKs.

1.1k does not have WiiU support in it, we're working on separate update with additional WiiU support in the coming week (hopefully).

RAD Telemetry 1.1j Released!

Welcome to the July 2012 release of RAD Telemetry!  This month we've done some bug fixing, incremental updates and support for the Linux and WiiU platforms, and implemented some experimental features specifically requested by our customers!

Run-Time

• Change: The run-time protocol has changed, so be sure to upgrade your server and run-times simultaneously!
• Bugfix: tmGetVersion was returning values inconsistent with the values in telemetry.h
• Enhancement: EXPERIMENTAL, CONTACT US BEFORE USING!  TMCT_USER_PROVIDED callback registration for your own storage and/or transmission of run-time data.
• Enhancement: Additional support for unannounced platform
• Enhancement: Updated WiiU support
• Enhancement: Enhanced Linux and OS X symbolization support

Visualizer

• Bugfix: Starting with 'Autostart Server' disabled resulted in a crash
• Bugfix: Zooming in too far in the Visualizer would make everything disappear in some instances
• Enhancement: Vertical zone scaling (Ctrl-Mousewheel) state is now saved
• Bugfix: 'Import' of data files would sometimes crash if the imported data was very small

Server

• Change: The run-time protocol has changed, so be sure to upgrade your server and run-times simultaneously!

Other

• Change: Cleaned up some obsolete documentation
• Bugfix: Fixed documentation error for some tmPlotXXX variants

RAD Telemetry 1.1i Released!

As promised, continuing our monthly releases with performance tweaks and more platform support.

IMPORTANT: This change requires a full upgrade and rebuild, and the tmPlot API will fail to compile.  We apologize for the minor inconvenience, but we needed to add a parameter to the tmPlot APIs and figured doubling the surface area of those APIs for one parameter was probably not a good long term direction.  The new parameter is a 'flags' parameter that you can just set to 0 and everything will work.

Run-Time

• Change: Protocol change, so make sure server and run-time are both upgraded!
• Change: tmPlotXXX APIs have been changed, an additional parameter is now required -- you must recompile and relink!
• Bugfix/Change: TM_VA_LIST parameter is now expected to be a va_list* instead of a va_list
• Change: Added TM_SLOW define that is set on platforms with very slow networking and timestamp querying (currently iOS)
• Bugfix/Changes: additional support for unannounced platforms
• Enhancement: TMCT_FILE support for iOS and PS3
• Bugfix: GPU D3D crash bug fixed

Visualizer

• Bugfix: certain object path names would crash plot display
• Bugfix: fixed missing newline when printing callstack in tooltip
• Enhancement: symbolization support enhanced for Linux and OS X

Server

• Change: Protocol change, so make sure server and run-time are both upgraded!

RAD Telemetry 1.1h Released!

We're back on our monthly release schedule -- this month we have bug fixes, performance improvements and some new platform support!

BETA iOS SUPPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE!

Run-Time

• Enhancement: we now have iOS support!
• Enhancement: additional support for unannounced platforms, please contact sales3@radgametools.com for more information
• Enhancement: additional enhancements for the WiiU platform
• Enhancement: quad buffering of Telemetry write buffers enabled on all platforms (previously this was only on PS3 and 360)
• Bugfix: RADEXPLINK definition mismatch if NTELEMETRY was defined and another RAD product was included
• Bugfix: PS3 strings were sometimes not sent over properly in some edge cases
• Bugfix: tmShutdown now compiles to TMERR_DISABLED instead of an empty statement when NTELEMETRY is defined
• Bugfix: handshake timeout now honors the timeout parameter to tmOpen instead of being hardcoded to 1s

Visualizer

• Change: removed confusing and vestigial tab 'Memory'

Server

• Bugfix: server is more tolerant of unknown string references sent by the run-time
• Bugfix: when -keeptmp was specified and the server connection crashed, the *.00 file was inadvertently deleted.  Fixed.

RAD Telemetry 1.1g Released!

Hey everyone, new release for Telemetry!  This is a relatively small update but still lots of good stuff going on!

Run-time

• Enhancement: TMOF_NO_PDB_LOOKUP added.  In some cases on Windows tmOpen can take a long time while doing PDB lookups of loaded modules.  This allows you to bypass that delay.
• Enhancement: Significantly better performance in the Telemetry processing thread on PS3, 360 and Windows.
• Change: default Telemetry thread priority increased to avoid starvation

Visualizer

• Enhancement: "Lock to end" checkbox is now persistent between sessions
• Enhancement: plotted zone times are now in the same plot group so you can compare scales
• Enhancement: Build information passed to tmOpen is now displayed in the session view
• Change: New license key system
• Change: Removed deprecated thread balance pie chart

Server

• Enhancement: a -maxsessions parameter has been added to tmserver so that it can be scriptable.  Now you can launch the server, tell it to capture N sessions, then have it exit when it's done capturing.

Telemetry 1.1f released!

Now that the holidays and GDC are behind us we're going to buckle down and get some pretty significant features and changes that our customers have asked for.  But before that we've released 1.1f with a lot of minor fixes and improvements.

Speaking of GDC, it was great meeting so many of our customers and getting positive feedback on Telemetry -- thanks for stopping by the booth!

Run-Time

• Enhancement: new plot types TMPT_TIME_US and TMPT_TIME_CLOCKS
• Bugfix: crash bug with Windows DX9 tmxgpu
• Bugfix: crash bug with TMCT_FILE and OS X
• Bugfix: tmSetLockStateMinTime wasn't checking some parameters in checked builds
• Bugfix: if the memory arena passed to tmInitializeContext wasn't zeroed out bad things could happen.  Telemetry now automatically zeroes that memory first.

Visualizer

• Enhancement: A very basic "search for zone" is implemented using Ctrl-F.  Does not support wildcards and only searches for zones that are currently loaded in memory.  A better implementation is in the works, but enough people asked for this that we've decided to provide this short term implementation.
• Enhancement: You can now plot a zone's time by right-clicking on it and choosing "Plot zone time".  As with search, you have to make sure that all zones you care about are in memory.  And again, this is a short term solution until we get a global solution in place.
• Enhancement: "lock to end" supported, so if watching live captures the last frame is visible at all times instead of scrolling off screen.
• Bugfix: Slow performance when rendering really wide zones 
• Bugfix: Right-click on some zones and zone types was sketchy
• Bugfix: Intermittent crashes when viewing a session with a combination of very short and very long frames.

Server

• Bugfix: rare race condition when accepting multiple profiling sessions from the same machine in less than one second

Misc

• Bugfix: tmSetLockStateMinTime return values were improperly documented
• Bugfix: tmSPUBindContextToListener function signature documentation was wrong